MORRIS About halfway through Morris home boys basketball game against Reed-Custer on Tuesday, Redskins coach Joe Blumberg lost his voice.

After the Comets went into the MCHS gymnasium and stole a 77-69 win over his team, the raspy Blumberg had little trouble making his point about what went wrong in the previous two hours after his teams first home loss of the season.

I feel like we couldnt get a stop when we needed it. We got driven too much on the perimeter, he said. We let two sophomore score quite a few points. We let them get comfortable. I thought they outworked us. They outplayed us.

Those two sophomores were Travis Schoonover and Brent Headrick. Schoonover ended the game with 25 points and Headrick had 14, while Mason Dransfeldt added 11 and Tyler Foote had 10 in the win.

The score was tied at 53 with about four minutes to play when R-C took control of the game.

At that point, Headrick hit a 3-pointer, the Morris offense turned the ball over and Dransfeldt converted a conventional three-point play aft of an offensive rebound, leading to a Redskins timeout.

To be honest, we struggled to stay between our man and the basket, Blumberg said. When we got down, I thought it was going to be hard to come back because of how poorly we defended them the whole game.

Down 65-59, Morris did get a bucket by Jake Walker at 2:52 but the Comets responded with a basket by Foote and a free throw by Schoonover to build a 68-61 advantage. Two Austin Patterson (18 points) free throws got Morris to 68-63 with 1:41, but Logan Zavala scored three straight points (a field goal and a free throw) to build a 71-63 lead.

Down the stretch, Walker did convert a three-point play and Patterson concluded the games scoring with a 3-pointer, but Foote added a field goal and two free throws and Headrick had two free throws to account for the final score.

We hadnt faced adversity at home to this points and I thought we didnt respond to it well tonight, Blumberg said.

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