Holy Spirit Sophomore Boys’ Basketball Team Wins Holiday Tournament Championship

Eagles ChampionshipOne of the Holy Spirit at Geist Boys’ Sophomore Basketball teams defeated St. Barnabas last night to win the championship of the Fourth Annual Holy Spirit Geist Freshman-Sophomore Holiday Basketball Tournament. The Holy Spirit Eagles soared high above the court as they each took turns climbing the ladder and cutting off a piece of the net from one of the rims.

Hamilton Southeastern’s Anthony Myren scored 22 points, including six 3-pointers, to lead the Eagles to the victory. Robby Clements and Justin Striebel joined Myren on the all-tournament team as the Eagles became the first two-time winner of the tournament.

“Congrats to the boys for a well-deserved tournament championship,” says head coach, Terry Hutchens. “The last two games were great ones and had similar themes. In both games, we were down and came back to win. And in both games they were big team wins. Our free throw shooting was better today, but just like in the semifinals when we beat Our Lady of Greenwood, we hit a couple of big foul shots when needed.”

The final score was 44-43. Ironically, in back to back games, Holy Spirit will play St. Barnabas this afternoon in their regular season game. Coach Hutchens warns his team about St. Barnabas players: “”They’re going to want revenge and we’re going to want to prove that Saturday night shouldn’t have been that close. I’m looking forward to seeing how we respond to the challenge.”

The Eagles of the Holy Spirit Team are as follows: Greg Bennett, Michael Burkert, Sean Clancy, Robby Clements, Kevin Hutchens, Jake Jones, Anthony Myron, Steven Mockbee, Sam Schwenk, and Justin Striebel. The head coach is Terry Hutchens and the assistant coach is Jay Burkert.

Holy Spirit’s other all-sophomore team, coached by John Gibbons, defeated St. Simon 48-45 for fifth place in the 20-team tournament.

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