(Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com)
COLORADO SPRINGS — St. Mary’s junior guard Camden Raedel was feeling it from long distance.
He knocked five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 21 points as the St. Mary’s Pirates topped Discovery Canyon 59-50 to open the 2016-17 boys basketball season.
“I give it all to my teammates,” Raedel said. “They gave me the ball when I was wide and we ran the offense perfectly.”
The Pirates (1-0 overall) led 29-24 at halftime, but the offense sputtered in the third quarter. Raedel and Tyler Englert each knocked down a triple, but those along with a single made free throw amounted to the only scoring in the third quarter.
As a result, the Thunder (0-1) took a 40-36 lead going into the fourth quarter. Hayden Fry led the Discovery Canyon offense with 14 points on the night.
The Pirates were able to clamp down defensively in the final quarter and get clutch buckets from Englert and Raedel to pull ahead and get the win.
Starting the season off with a win was very important for the Pirates and first year coach Pernell Baca.
“It was huge,” Baca said. “We have a tremendously tough schedule ahead of us. To start of like this is tremendous. It’s huge.”
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