The University boys basketball team won their fourth game in a row Friday night with a 58-41 win over Bethesda Christian.
Max Greenamoyer led a balanced attack for the Blazers with 12 points. Nate Shatkowski, Jacob Sager and Eric Major each tallied eight points while Joe Martin and Quinn Steiner had six points each.
The Trailblazers never trailed in the game, although the Patriots kept the game close in the first half. University methodically built a 15-8 lead at the end of the first quarter with six different players scoring. Shatkowski’s 3-pointer with 4:08 remaining in the half gave University a 22-12 lead, but the Blazers went scoreless for more than three minutes as Bethesda Christian seized momentum and crawled within 22-19.
Steiner swung the momentum back to the home team with a pair of 3-point baskets, the second one a contested shot from the wing at the halftime buzzer that gave University a 28-19 lead.
A pair of baskets from Martin sandwiched a Sager lay-in over the first 90 seconds of the third quarter to put University in front 34-19 and cap a 12-0 run over just 2:20 of game clock. The contest was not in doubt the rest of the game as University’s lead swelled to as many as 20 points.
Junior point guard Sam Mervis had a team high in assists with seven and shared team high honors in rebounds with Sager as each pulled down six caroms. Martin had five steals.
University is next in action tonight as part of a triple-header with Liberty Christian. The boys junior varsity game tips at 5:00 p.m. to be followed by the girls varsity and boys varsity games.
The Trailbazers are 4-1, while the Patriots fall to 1-3.
University 58, Bethesda Christian 41
University FG FT TP PF
Sam Mervis 2-5 0-0 4 3
Max Greenamoyer 4-9 0-0 12 2
Jacob Sager 4-7 0-0 8 1
Camden Brown 1-7 1-4 3 1
Joe Martin 3-7 0-0 6 3
Quinn Steiner 2-6 0-0 6 0
Nate Shatkowski 3-7 0-0 8 0
Eric Major 4-4 0-0 8 1
Korey Ash-Simpson 0-0 0-0 0 1
Eyal Friedman 1-1 1-2 3 0
Matt Jones 0-0 0-0 0 0
Totals 24-53 2-6 58 12
Score by Quarters
Bethesda Christian 8 11 10 12 – 41
University 15 13 16 14 – 58
University 3-point shooting (8-21) Greenamoyer 4-9, Shatkowski 2-5, Steiner 2-5, Brown 0-2.
University rebounds (25) Sager 6, Mervis 6, Major 4, Brown 4, Ash-Simpson 3, Shatkowski 1, Martin 1.