Despite comeback, Gilroy outlasts San Benito by 45-35 margin
Tuesday night
For three and a half quarters, Tuesday’s Gilroy-San Benito tilt
was a game only a basketball mother could love
— an ugly, turnover-heavy battle with neither team able to find
any sort of offensive rhythm.
And then all of that changed.
”
It’s Hollister,
”
Gilroy guard Michelle Sosa said afterward.
”
We don’t want to lose to Hollister.
”
Despite comeback, Gilroy outlasts San Benito by 45-35 margin Tuesday night
For three and a half quarters, Tuesday’s Gilroy-San Benito tilt was a game only a basketball mother could love — an ugly, turnover-heavy battle with neither team able to find any sort of offensive rhythm.
And then all of that changed.
“It’s Hollister,” Gilroy guard Michelle Sosa said afterward. “We don’t want to lose to Hollister.”
In a rivalry game, that’s usually enough of a reason.
But although the host Haybalers carried a 26-23 lead early on in the fourth quarter, at a point in the game where both teams appeared to be finding their offensive spark, the two rivals went in opposite directions. San Benito committed five turnovers over the next five-plus minutes, and Gilroy went on a 13-2 run before closing out a 45-35 victory at Hollister’s Mattson Gym.
“Key possessions, we find ways to turn it over,” San Benito head coach David Kaplansky said. “They work hard. They’re in every game. But when key possessions occur, we’re not taking care of the basketball properly.”
Turnovers were indeed part of the game Thursday for both teams — 42 combined.
Nicole Rianda managed to lead all scorers with 21 points, though, while Erin Glasspool has seven points behind a pair of 3-pointers.
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