The Amity Spartans Boys Basketball team hosted the Cheshire Rams on Monday night in Woodbridge.
Cheshire had a one-point lead in the first quarter but pulled further ahead in the second with 15 points to Amity’s 7 — second quarter score 29-20 Cheshire.
The Rams continued to keep the Spartans at arm’s length with 18 third-quarter points to Amity’s 14 widening the spread to 47-34.
The Spartans put their game faces on for the final quarter scoring 20 points to Cheshire’s 14, but it just wasn’t enough. The Rams won 61-54.
Amity’s Tyler Thomas was the game’s high scoring player, pulling in more than half of his team’s points and nearly twice as many as Cheshire’s high-scorer Will Graikowski who had 17.
Scoreboard
CHESHIRE 14 15 18 14—61
AMITY 13 7 14 20—54
Cheshire
Will Graikowski 7 0-0 17 (includes three 3-pointers), Matt Rosadino 3 6-10 14 (includes two 3-point shots), Ben DeLaubell 6 0-0 12, James Pettit 3 1-2 9 (includes two 3-point field goals), Eric Angelone 2 1-3 5, Aiden Godfrey 0 2-2 2, Alec Frione 1 0-0 2. Totals 22 10-17 61.
Amity
Tyler Thomas 12 2-2 32 (includes six 3-pointers), Cole Wissink 3 0-0 8 (includes two 3-point field goals), Jack Nolan 2 0-0 4, Tanner Thomas 2 0-0 4, Chris Bierezowiec 1 1-2 3, Quinn Burke 1 1-2 3. Totals 21 4-6 54.
3 Point Field Goals: Cheshire 7; Amity 8.
Records: Amity 8-3, Cheshire 8-4.
Next Up: Away at Fairfield Warde (7-2), Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m.
