By Ryan Ross
The Amherst Varsity Vikings men’s basketball team advanced to the semi-finals with a 71-57 win over Sackville at the Confederation City Classic in Charlottetown on Friday.
The Vikings faced last year’s winner, the Tantramar Titans, in a game that saw big swings for both sides.
Loren Fawthrop, who scored 24 points for the Vikings, said the team did what had to be done to get back in the game once they were down.
“It’s a big win for us.”
The Vikings lost to the Titans earlier in the season at a tournament hosted by Tantramar.
With the win, Amherst’s tournament record improved to 3-0 and pushed them through to the semi-finals.
Amherst opened up the scoring in the first quarter, giving them a lead they held through most of the game.
The first quarter ended 15-14 for the Vikings.
The Vikings dominated the second quarter from the beginning when Lawson McLeod drove to the net and dropped the first point of the quarter.
At one point Amherst held a 10-point lead, including a stretch where they scored six unanswered points.
By the time the teams broke for the half, Amherst was ahead by seven.
Tantramar closed the gap in third and it took the Vikings almost four minutes to score their first point of the quarter.
The Titans stole the lead with a three-pointer later in the third but Amherst fired back with one of their own to tie it up.
Amherst saw their early lead reduced to two points as they went into the fourth quarter with a score of 49-47.
The Vikings came back in the fourth with a strong finish as they stretched their lead and finished the game 71-57.
Amherst coach Reg Caulfield said his team needed to match Tantramar’s intensity to win and that’s what they did.
“We’re not a prolific scoring team.”
But they need to execute their game plan to win and he is hard on the kids, he said.
“My expectations are high.”
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