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Waukee Northwest basketball remains undefeated, despite Southeast Polk keeping the game interesting.
The Wolves took down the Rams, 66-44, after holding off a third-quarter surge by the visiting team. But that late momentum is exactly what Northwest expected.
“They play extremely hard,” said head coach Brett Watson. “We knew coming in here, just seeing on film, that it was going to be hard. I’m just really proud of our guy’s perseverance.”
That’s the key word here, since the Wolves needed to bounce back from a rivalry win over Waukee on Tuesday – a game that, even with a victory, comes with a lot of emotions attached – to compete against the Rams.
And for most of Friday’s matchup, Northwest looked like the stronger team.
Sure, there were stumbles, but the Wolves didn’t allow Southeast Polk to muster up much of anything early on. The Rams trailed Northwest, 21-8, after the first quarter, and 34-18 after the second quarter. Colin Rice took control early and score 18 points in the first two frames of the game.
He finished with 27 points.
“He did a really nice job of clogging the paint, slashing and getting to the rim,” Watson said. “The way he moves through there, he’s able to make some plays that are just really tough to defend.”
But then Joshua Charlotin put Southeast Polk back in the game. He scored 17 second half points, with 14 in the third quarter to make it a one-point game late in the frame. Charlotin gave the Rams a lot of life after halftime, but Northwest found a way to slow him down in the fourth quarter.
By the end of the game, the Wolves looked – once again – like the dominant team, taking down their opponent by 20-plus points and holding three of Southeast Polk’s starters to five or fewer points.
That’s to be expected with the top-ranked team in Iowa’s largest class, and expectations are high for the Wolves just six games into the season.
For the Wolves, though, it’s all about taking it one game at a time.
“Everything is zero-zero,” Watson said. “The most important thing right now is our recovery. Then the next thing is tomorrow, then the next day, and then we keep stacking those days.”
Alyssa Hertel is the college sports recruiting reporter for the Des Moines Register. Contact Alyssa at [email protected] or on Twitter @AlyssaHertel.
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Waukee Northwest basketball fends off late Southeast Polk comeback
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The Wolves took down the Rams, 66-44, after holding off a third-quarter surge by the visiting team. But that late momentum is exactly what Northwest expected.
“They play extremely hard,” said head coach Brett Watson. “We knew coming in here, just seeing on film, that it was going to be hard. I’m just really proud of our guy’s perseverance.”
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That’s the key word here, since the Wolves needed to bounce back from a rivalry win over Waukee on Tuesday – a game that, even with a victory, comes with a lot of emotions attached – to compete against the Rams.
And for most of Friday’s matchup, Northwest looked like the stronger team.
Sure, there were stumbles, but the Wolves didn’t allow Southeast Polk to muster up much of anything early on. The Rams trailed Northwest, 21-8, after the first quarter, and 34-18 after the second quarter. Colin Rice took control early and score 18 points in the first two frames of the game.
He finished with 27 points.
“He did a really nice job of clogging the paint, slashing and getting to the rim,” Watson said. “The way he moves through there, he’s able to make some plays that are just really tough to defend.”
But then Joshua Charlotin put Southeast Polk back in the game. He scored 17 second half points, with 14 in the third quarter to make it a one-point game late in the frame. Charlotin gave the Rams a lot of life after halftime, but Northwest found a way to slow him down in the fourth quarter.
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By the end of the game, the Wolves looked – once again – like the dominant team, taking down their opponent by 20-plus points and holding three of Southeast Polk’s starters to five or fewer points.
That’s to be expected with the top-ranked team in Iowa’s largest class, and expectations are high for the Wolves just six games into the season.
For the Wolves, though, it’s all about taking it one game at a time.
“Everything is zero-zero,” Watson said. “The most important thing right now is our recovery. Then the next thing is tomorrow, then the next day, and then we keep stacking those days.”
Alyssa Hertel is the college sports recruiting reporter for the Des Moines Register. Contact Alyssa at [email protected] or on Twitter @AlyssaHertel.
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Waukee Northwest basketball fends off late Southeast Polk comeback
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