On Thursday, Feb. 22, the #6 Amity Spartans Boys Basketball team hosted the #11 Daniel Hand Tigers for the First-Round of the SCC Tournament in Woodbridge.
The Spartans took an early 14-7 lead in the first quarter and never let up. The second quarter also was awesome with Amity going into the half at 26-11.
The third quarter was Hand’s strongest with 12 points, yet not enough to overtake Amity which pulled ahead even further with 15 points — third quarter score 41-23.
With this 18 point lead, the starters got a big break and the underclassmen had their turn to contribute to the SCC Tournament, including Sophomore Tanner Thomas who made 4 points.
His brother, Tyler Thomas was the game’s high scoring player with 21 points, which includes two 3-pointers. He also had five rebounds, five assists, and five steals to lead the Spartans to their SCC tournament first-round win.
James Van Hise added seven points for the Spartans. Tyler Boris led the Tigers with seven points.
SCOREBOARD
AMITY 14 12 15 9 — 50
HAND 7 4 12 7 — 30
Amity: Tyler Thomas 8 3-3 21, James Van Hise 3 1-3 7, Brian Curtin 2 0-0 6 (two 3-pointers), Joe Benedetti 3 0-1 6, Jack Nolan 2 0-0 4, Tanner Thomas 2 0-0 4, Mike Young 1 0-0 2, Total 21 4-8 50.
Hand: Tyler Boris 3 0-0 7 (one 3-pointer), Graeme McGivern 2 0-0 6 (two 3-pointers), Pierson Chapman 2 0-1 4, Luke Bocher 2 0-0 4, Flynn Driscoll 0 3-4 3, Jesse Lutz 1 0-0 2, Matt Maxwell 1 0-0 2,Total 12 3-7 30.
3 point FG: Amity 4; Hand 3.
Next Up: For the SCC Quarter Finals, Amity (16-5) will go up against Hamden (17-3) at Branford Saturday, Feb. 23 at 4:30 p.m.
