Musketeer Madness

Brewster 84, American Christian 79 (March 4, 2008)

Brewster advanced to the National Prep School Semifinals with a 84-79 win over American Christian. Brewster blitzed American Christian during the opening half of action and pushed their lead as high as 18 points. At the half, Brewster led 46-31. American Christian, the #5 ranked team nationally, made a second half comeback and took their first lead with five minutes remaining, 69-68. Brewster responded with a baseline jumper by Mark Lyons (Schenectady, NY) and would not relinquish the lead. Lyons had a game-high 25 points (including 3 three-pointers). During the last two minutes Trey Blue (South Holland, IL) knocked down a clutch three-pointer to push Brewster's lead to five. Blue finished with 16 points. Emmanuel Negedu (Kaduna, Nigeria) continued his torrid play with 19 points and 14 rebounds, plus four clutch blocked shots. Defensively, Charles Abouo (Logan, UT) did a fantastic job on Tyrke Evans, the #2 ranked player nationally, by holding him to 12 points. Anthony Crater (Flint, MI) had a game-high ten assists from his point guard position.

Brewster improves to 31-3 on the season and will play #1 nationally ranked and undefeated Hargrave Military (VA) at 6pm on Wednesday in the National Prep School Semifinals.

Great news on Lyons.

Has anyone seen any mention for possible TV for the game tonight?

Although reports have indicated that Lyons is more of a Lenny Brown-type slasher, it is good to see that he can hit the three. With the line being moved back, we will have three recruits that are known to shoot the 3--Redford, Lyons, and Walsh. We will need one of them to take B J's spot as the designated 3-pt shooter in two years.

refresh my memory, how tall is Mark?

Frambo wrote:Great news on Lyons.

Has anyone seen any mention for possible TV for the game tonight?

I looked around (including channelsurfing.net and the school's website) and found no mention of TV coverage. If there is any I imagine it would only be the finals.

Wonder who Burrell and West are rooting for as alumni of Hargrave?

Isn't Hargrave Military Academy where both D.West and the Hammer went?

GBXU wrote:Isn't Hargrave Military Academy where both D.West and the Hammer went?

That does make them alumni no? See previous post.

I think the time they each had there was a PG year, as I recall, but still "An alumnus" (pl. alumni) according to the American Heritage Dictionary is "a male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university."

somebody wrote:

GBXU wrote:Isn't Hargrave Military Academy where both D.West and the Hammer went?

That does make them alumni no? See previous post.

Wow... completely blew by that one... sorry.

GBXU wrote:Wow... completely blew by that one... sorry.

No problemo. I do it all the time! I only recalled it when I went to check their website. Both are mentioned prominently in a long list of other former students who are or were in the pros and/or D1.