Coming into the game Friday, Mamou was riding a six game winning streak. A week ago the Demons beat Lake Arthur on the road 70-56 and beat Kinder 78-70 Tuesday night to get to 5-0 in district. Both the win streak and the district record increased by one after beating DeQuincy at home 66-48.
"We came out I thought with a high energy, but we did some things that kinda let them back into the ballgame," said coach John Jack. "I told my guys we can't afford to just let people back in the games and make it interesting. I think that's what we did tonight."
Mamou took the lead on a trey from Trey Wilson to go up 4-2. Great team ball movement resulted in LilPaul Williams sinking a three ball extending the lead to 9-4. Wilson then made a basket from under the net to go up 11-4. A timeout was called on the court at the 3:40 mark of the first quarter as Mamou led 13-6.
Russell Edwards stole the ball and passed to Williams who dunked it in for the score. Wilson then hit another trey from the far end of the key to go up 18-6 before Williamson hit a three of his own. DeQuincy converted on a three point play to bring their score column into the double digits and hit a three to close the gap to 23-16 as the first quarter clock ran out.
Edwards extended the lead to 25-16 early in the second. DeQuincy cut it back to a single digit lead about half way through the quarter. Luke Thomas made it a double digit game again at 33-23.The first 16 minutes of play ended with the home team leading 37-23
Mamou starting making unforced errors which led to DeQuincy again making it a single digit game at 38-29 as a timeout was called with 5:47 left in the third quarter. Wilson passed to Williamson who picked up a slam dunk to again make it a double digit lead about five and a half minutes into the third quarter.
Williamson drained another big three as Mamou looked to regain control of the game. Edwards rejected a Dequincy play like he was in a Just for Men commercial making Keith Hernandez and Clyde Frazier say, "No play for Mr. Gray."
On the other side of the court, Mamou scored to make it 49-34 in the waning seconds of the quarter, and the third quarter ended by the same score. Mack Thomas hit a three ball to go up by 18, and Cordell Frank made it a 20 point lead at 56-36. DeQuincy mounted a fourth quarter charge, but Williamson stole the ball out of the hands of a DeQuincy player and dribbled all the way for an easy alley-oop to get the partisan crowd more into the game.
This Mamou team now looks to surpass the district record of the 1985-86 team that went 11-1 in district play. To do so it has to navigate through a tough road stretch next week against Welsh and Vinton. Jack said, "Those two teams are playing tonight, and depending on what happens with it next week is a very big week for us."
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