CROOKSTON BOY’S BASKETBALL HITS FREE THROWS AND TAKES CARE OF BASKETBALL IN WIN OVER CLIMAX-FISHER

The Crookston Pirate Boy’s Basketball team shot their free throws well and took care of the basketball in a 64-46 win over the Climax-Fisher Knights on Thursday night. 

FIRST HALF –
The Pirates opened the game on a 7-0 run with a three from Isaac Thomforde, and layups from Reggie Winjum and Hunter Nicholas. Climax-Fisher would then get on the board with scores from Ethan Evitts and Luis Gonzalez and Crookston would lead 9-5 with 14:00 left in the half. Climax-Fisher played tough defense on the Pirates early forcing early turnovers and getting to the free-throw line to keep themselves in the game. They got the game all the way down to one point with Crookston leading 15-14, but the Pirates would go on a 9-0 run to take a commanding 24-14 edge. Highlighting the run for Crookston was Caden Boike scoring four points, and scores from Isaac Thomforde as well as Reggie Winjum. The two teams would trade a few buckets at the end of the half, and the Pirates would head into halftime with a 28-20 lead in a low-scoring game. Leading the way for Crookston was Isaac Thomforde with 9 points, while Ethan Evitts and Luis Gonzalez each had 8 for the Knights. 

SECOND HALF –
Crookston came out in the second half and like the first half got off to a great start. Tanner Giese was a big reason why as the senior contributed 8 points early on and the Pirates were able to extend the lead to 41-28 with 12:21 remaining in the game. Crookston continued to slowly build the lead with offensive rebounds and good free throw shooting and found themselves in front 47-30. Every time the Knights looked like they were going to get back within reach, the Pirates would make a play at the other end of the court to extend the lead. Crookston ended up making 7-10 free throws in the second half, and at one point made five straight. That along with taking care of the basketball resulted in the Pirates coming away with a 64-46 victory. 

Crookston is now 5-7 and will have a quick turnaround for an important game tomorrow night with the East Grand Forks Green Wave. We will have the game on KROX from East Side starting with the RiverView Health pregame show at 7:00 p.m. and the tipoff at 7:30 p.m. Climax-Fisher stumbles to 2-10 with the loss.

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FOR KNIGHTS COACH ALEX WENTZEL’S COMMENTS, CLICK BELOW

 

	1st	2nd	Final
CROOKSTON	28	36	64
Climax-Fisher	20	26	46

For CROOKSTON	Points	Rebounds	Assists/Steals
Hunter Nicholas	16	6	2 assists/3 steals
Isaac Thomforde	11	5
Caden Boike	10	4	1 assist/1 steal
Reggie Winjum	9	3	1 assist/2 steals
Tanner Giese	8	5	2 assists/2 steals
Jack Everett	7	5	2 assists/2 steals
Gavin Winger	3	2	1 assist