Manhattan High boys\u2019 basketball saw its nine-game winning streak come to an end Thursday afternoon, falling 55-43 to Olathe East in the opening round of the Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n
The Indians had chances throughout the afternoon but couldn\u2019t generate enough offense late, scoring just six points in the fourth quarter after trailing by one at halftime. Manhattan entered the break down 26-25, but Olathe East used a third-quarter push to create separation and closed out the game down the stretch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe loss hurts,\u201d head coach Benji George said. \u201cIt\u2019s a hurt locker room right now because of how we had it going. The loss hurts for two reasons \u2014 we haven\u2019t lost in a while, so you kind of forget how much you hate it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olathe East pulled ahead with an 18-12 third quarter, then held Manhattan to six points in the final frame. The Indians finished the game shooting 17-of-44 (38.6%) from the field and struggled to maintain rhythm offensively as fatigue set in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we got lazy on offense at times and fatigued,\u201d George said. \u201cWe really let fatigue make the decisions for us on offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manhattan was led by Vince Doering\u2019s 11 points, while Will Carpenter and Tim Washington added 10 apiece. Washington\u2019s pair of 3-pointers late in the first half helped keep the Indians within striking distance heading into halftime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed it,\u201d George said. \u201cI liked the way we ended the first half there, because things were getting bad in a hurry in the first half, and he saved us a little going into halftime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Easton Duff provided a spark off the bench, finishing with eight points on 4-of-5 shooting, while Sawyer Newton scored four.<\/p>\n
Olathe East was led by Ty Mwenda\u2019s 20 points, as the guard buried six 3-pointers to provide the perimeter scoring that helped swing the opener.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive them credit \u2014 the tough shots they made,\u201d George said. \u201cI told the team I take this one 100%. I have to do a better job in scouting, and I didn\u2019t have us ready to rebound the way we were going to need to rebound.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the disappointment, George said the loss serves as a reminder for a group that had surged through the first month of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot went into this game,\u201d he said. \u201cThe bracket came out last Wednesday, so a lot went into it from a prep standpoint. It\u2019s almost like losing the first game of the season. I told them it\u2019s mountains and valleys. You\u2019re never as good as you think you are when you win, and you\u2019re never as bad as you think you are when you lose. We just have to respond tomorrow the way champions would.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manhattan continues Tournament of Champions play against Dodge City at 2:30 p.m., after press time.<\/p>\n
OLATHE EAST 55,<\/p>\n
MANHATTAN 43<\/p>\n
Olathe East (8-3) \u2014 12; 14; 18; 11 \u2014 55<\/p>\n
Manhattan (9-2) \u2014 10; 15; 12; 6 \u2014 43<\/p>\n
INDIVIDUAL SCORING<\/p>\n
Manhattan \u2014 Doering 11, Carpenter 10, Washington 10, Duff 8, Sawyer Newton 4<\/p>\n
Olathe East \u2014 Mwenda 20, Allholm 12, Boster 9, Weikal 9, Burton 3, Washington 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High boys\u2019 basketball saw its nine-game winning streak come to an end Thursday afternoon, falling 55-43 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8918,4567,75,84,83,10784,9,24,63,4027],"class_list":["post-110032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-american-football","tag-basketball","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-men","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-team-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}