Laurentian fights back to drop Mustangs
November 16, 2011By Ryan Stern
Manny Pasquale hit a step back three-pointer with 0.7 seconds left that stunned the Mustangs squad and crowd alike. In a back and forth game, it was the Laurentian Voyageurs that came out on top, storming back to defeat the Western Mustangs 87-86.
“There was 16 seconds left, we had a play drawn up and it didn’t work,” Shawn Swords, Laurentian’s head coach, said. “It was in the hands of Manny and he’s a great player and he made a play.”
The Mustangs stormed out of the gate to take a 22-12 lead at the end of the first quarter. The ease with which this lead was attained made it look like Western would gallop to an easy victory.
The Mustangs lead swelled to as much as 17 points midway through the second quarter before momentum began to change hands. As the Voyageurs started to turn the tables, the Mustangs saw their lead vanish to a mere four points as the first half drew to a close.
Laurentian came out with a similar intensity in the third quarter and managed to wrestle the lead away from the Mustangs by quarters end, after a barrage of transition three-pointers off the hot hand of Pasquale. After three quarters, Laurentian led 60-58, setting up the photo finish in the fourth quarter.
The game continued as a seesaw battle for much of the fourth quarter as it appeared that neither team was capable of missing. Laurentian led by one point in the final 30 seconds, when Ryan Barbeau, who came alive in the fourth quarter, sunk a critical lay-up while being fouled . After hitting the free throw, Barbeau put the Mustangs up 86-84 with just 16 seconds left in a game that seemed destined for a Mustang victory or overtime. Unfortunately for the Mustangs, Pasquale had different plans, as his three-pointer in the next possession sealed the Mustangs fate.
“It was the sequence of events before the shot that hurt us,” Brad Campbell, Mustangs head coach, said. “An outstanding player made a good shot and they came through. But all in all a bad defensive fourth quarter was what hurt us.”
After the game, several of the Mustangs were at a loss for words, but also understood that there is no point in getting hung up on a loss this early in the season.
“It happens—for us it is being able to bounce back,” Ryan Higgins, a Mustang guard, said after the loss. “Basketball is a game of bounces, and it can’t work every time. We put ourselves in a good situation early and just couldn’t close. We’ll be ready next game.”
Barbeau led all Mustangs with 27 points, while Pasquale led all scorers with a game-high 29 points. The loss drops the Mustangs to 1-1 on the season as they prepare for an important early season matchup against the Carleton Ravens next Friday.
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