In a battle between two of the Centennial League\u2019s best, Manhattan High boys\u2019 basketball found itself in another tight finish but ended on the wrong side of a 73-70 overtime loss to Emporia on Friday night.<\/p>\n
The emotion’s is awful raw right now for me,” head coach Benji George said after the game. “(The result) \u2014 it’s a lot of things, maybe just regression of those moments going our way so often throughout the season that one doesn’t go our way tonight.”<\/p>\n
Emporia took both matchups between the two last season \u2014 one by a single point and another by two \u2014 and the foes delivered another memorable performance. Once again, it was the Spartans playing spoiler.<\/p>\n
Manhattan fell to 11-4 overall and 3-1 in league play, while Emporia improved to 14-3 and 3-1. Vince Doering led the Indians with 21 points, while Emporia\u2019s Rylan Crowell scored a game-high 24, including 22 in the second half and overtime.<\/p>\n
How it happened<\/p>\n
The Spartans entered the contest ranked No. 5 in Class 5A and showed why early. Manhattan struggled to find rhythm offensively and trailed 17-6 at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Adjustments followed, however. The Indians opened the second quarter on a 14-4 run, cutting the deficit to one within the first four minutes. Manhattan tied the game shortly after before Henry Witt sank back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Indians a six-point lead and all of the momentum.<\/p>\n
Following one of its most difficult quarters of the season, Manhattan delivered one of its best, outscoring Emporia 28-11 in the second quarter to take a six-point lead into halftime. Witt tied his career high in the first half, scoring 12 points to fuel the turnaround.<\/p>\n
The third quarter settled into a grind. Emporia trimmed the deficit to 45-43, aided by trips to the free-throw line \u2014 including six makes from Crowell in the period.<\/p>\n
Each league heavyweight traded punches in the fourth quarter, but Manhattan appeared to seize control with under three minutes remaining. A Vince Doering and-one, followed by a Will Carpenter 3-pointer, pushed the Indians ahead by six entering crunch time.<\/p>\n
Emporia responded, tying the game at 62-62 with 21 seconds remaining. Manhattan held for the final shot but could not convert, sending the contest to overtime.<\/p>\n
The Spartans opened extra time with a five-point run, and Tim Washington fouled out during the stretch. Manhattan battled back to within one possession, but the ball did not bounce its way in the final moments.<\/p>\n
Up next for Manhattan is a trip to Maize on Saturday.<\/p>\n
EMPORIA 73,<\/p>\n
MANHATTAN 70<\/p>\n
EHS (14-3, 3-1) \u2014 17; 11; 15; 19; 11 \u2014 73<\/p>\n
MHS (11-4, 3-1) \u2014 6; 28; 11; 17; 8 \u2014 70<\/p>\n
INDIVIDUAL SCORING<\/p>\n
Manhattan \u2014 Carpenter 13, Asher Newton 5, Doering 21, Washington 5, Hattrup 3, Sawyer Newton 7, Witt 14<\/p>\n
Emporia \u2014 Crowell 24, Franklin 18, Trelc 12, Sidel 5,, Bloomquist 4, Harrington 4, Gray 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a battle between two of the Centennial League\u2019s best, Manhattan High boys\u2019 basketball found itself in another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8918,20431,75,84,83,8919,9,24,8920,8917,8921,63,11585],"class_list":{"0":"post-126009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-free-throw","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-national-football-league","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nfl-seasons","17":"tag-nfl-teams","18":"tag-nfl-teams-seasons","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-seasons-in-american-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126009","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=126009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}