Mamou at Dunham

With his Mamou team entering the playoffs, John Jack tried to keep everything as normal. "We look at it as just another game, but on the same token it's a little different- it's a playoff game," he said. "So we know the implicatons, and we just gonna try to play with what we been doing at this point."
He admitted that his team was "gonna try to mix it up a little bit" against Dunham, but he stressed "it's just another road game."
On the other end of the court, Jonathan Pixley's plan "was to try to force tempo and play in transition as much as we could."
Jack's game plan translated well onto the court on the defensive end, but offensivley his team struggled to make its shots. In the end fatigue set in as Mamou could not keep up with the pace of the game. It was Dunham that advanced onto the second round scoring 66 points to Mamou's 48.
"I thought they shot the ball extremely well, and I knew they were a permiter team, and they certainly proved it tonight," said Jack about the Dunham team. "We had our chances. We missed a lot of easy opportunities in the first half."
"In the first half they matched our intensity very well and did exactly what I expected them to do coming in here for a playoff game," said Pixley. "They wanted to continue their season, and so did we. We just happened to luck up and get a win."
Luke Thomas tied it up for Mamou after Dunham made a pair of free throws. Russell Edwards later in the first quarter tied it up again at 10 as he converted on the three point play. However Dunham at that point started taking control of the game. At the end of the opening quarter Mamou trailed 21-13.
Mamou was trying to keep it close on defense and at the charity stripe, but Dunham again made it a 10-point game three minutes before halftime. The first half closed out with Mamou trailing 33-21.
Edwards scored a layup in the early goings of the second half and swatted the ball away from the Dunham shooter, but again his team could not capitalize on the turnover. The hardest challenge in the second half Mamou faced on offense was looking into the rowdy student section.
Mamou provided some fireworks in the second half as Trey Wilson scored a big three ball to make the score 49-28. Mamou drilled another trey to make it a 20-point deficit in the waning moments of the third. Mack Thomas and Luke Thomas each added three pointers from long range.
The loss did not take anything away from the season. "I thought we had a really great season," said Jack. "We hadn't been in the playoffs in five or six years, so it's a good feeling to have an opportunity to play in the playoffs. So all we can do is hope for next year."