So, Caleb Lepisto, grade the ROWVA High School boys basketball team’s second half from Friday night.
“The third quarter was probably a 2 out of 10,” the Tigers senior said. “The fourth quarter was probably like an 8 or 9.”
Talk about being hard on yourself.
Considering ROWVA’s 78-47 win over visiting Lincoln Trail Conference rival Galva saw the Tigers score 27 of the final 29, Lepisto might have been the only one in the gym who thought their fourth-quarter performance wasn’t worthy of a perfect 10.
“When they decided to turn it back on, they went,” first-year ROWVA coach Jason Lydic said.
“There’s no point in slowing them down and saying, ‘Stop.’ It came real fast and in a hurry. I expected to go fast, but the speed it went in those last couple minutes, I was having a hard time just getting my subs in.”
After Jake McClintic’s putback at 7:48 of the fourth cut what was once an 18-point Galva deficit to 51-45, ROWVA (13-8, 4-1) held the Wildcats (5-14, 2-3) without a field goal the rest of the game and scored the next 21 in a row.
For the rest of this story, see the Feb. 4 Galva News.
