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Jun. 10—INDIANAPOLIS — Gainbridge Fieldhouse hosted an intense doubleheader on Saturday night. One game featured a comeback where the team trailing the majority of the game fought through at the end to win. The other was the opposite where the team that built a big lead saw the lead dwindle but eventually held off a game opponent.
In both cases the Indiana All-Stars were the ones celebrating at the end.
To start the evening, Carroll’s Alli Harness was part of the Indiana girls squad which fought back to beat Kentucky 66-64 and sweep the annual series after winning Friday night’s game in Lexington, Kentucky.
Then to close Saturday night’s event, Kokomo’s Flory Bidunga and Karson Rogers and Wildkat coach John Peckinpaugh savored victory after Indiana’s boys team held off the Kentucky All-Stars 92-89 to split the two-day series after dropping Friday’s game in Kentucky.
BOYS GAME
Bidunga went into the annual rivalry series as Indiana’s Mr. Basketball and closed the evening as Saturday night’s MVP of the boys game. He had game-highs of 31 points and 17 rebounds while also notching four assists, a steal and five blocks.
A night after dropping the game in Kentucky, where Bidunga fouled out on a debated call with more than half the second half left to play, Indiana’s players were motivated to dig in and win Saturday.
“We challenged the guys to take it personal,” Peckinpaugh said. “Kind of some stuff didn’t go our way down there [Friday in Kentucky], it was out of our control. I didn’t do a good job of handling that adversity and it kind of snowballed down to our players.
“We challenged them to step up and try their best to defend some guys that had made really tough shots, and I thought we did a good job of that [Saturday] night for the majority of the game. They have a couple guys over there that made some really tough shots — you saw that late — but overall, for 40 minutes, I thought we played really good basketball.”
Indiana set the tone early and took a 19-point lead into…
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Author : Kokomo Tribune, Ind.
Publish date : 2024-06-10 09:46:00
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