Ice-cold Horsemen fall to Charlo boys
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December 20, 2018
John Hamilton
MAC ATTACK - Matt McCracken flies over Charlo's Garrett Vaughan during a drive to the basket in Plains Saturday. Horsemen play at Thompson Falls Thursday.
PLAINS – Baby, it's cold outside... and, as it turns out, it's cold inside, too.
Pretty much ice-cold through most of the game, the Plains Horsemen seemingly could not beg, borrow or steal a basket for much of the night and lost to the visiting Charlo Vikings 32-28 in District 14C conference action at Plains Saturday.
The ice-cold shooting of the Horsemen gave the Vikings the opportunity to pull out the win in spite of missing a bunch of free throws in the closing minutes.
"We just couldn't seem to get any offensive flow going," Plains coach Tyrell Allen said. "We played pretty good defense, we just need to figure out a way to score more points."
Allen said the Horsemen seemed to be settling for open shots on the perimeter when he would like to see the ball taken inside more.
"We shot poorly from beyond the 3-point line," Allen said. "I am not against shooting threes but I think we can get better looks inside if we work the ball around more. We need to have more balance in our offensive attack."
Seniors Derick Curry and Matt McCracken led Plains with 10 and seven points each, respectively, and Curry also speared 10 rebounds.
Tucker Foster chipped in with six more for the Horsemen, Jake Weyers three and Nathan Feliska two.
Landers Smith handled most of the heavy lifting for Charlo scoring a game-high 18 points and Garrett Vaughan added six.
The Horsemen will wrap up play in 2018 visiting Thompson Falls Thursday. Plains was to have hosted Arlee in a boy-girl doubleheader Tuesday, but results were not available at press time.
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