Indians fall to Lone Grove

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Comanche’s Garrett Morrow tries to get off a shot over the defense of Lone Grove’s Jacob McClennahan during their game on Friday in Comanche. Evan Grice/ The Duncan Banner

February 4, 2012

Evan Grice The Duncan Banner The Duncan Banner Sat Feb 04, 2012, 10:42 PM CST

COMANCHE — There was only one certainty to come out of Comanche’s game with Lone Grove Friday night. CHS will be glad to not see the Longhorns again this season.

LGHS broke open a close game in the first quarter and never looked back, coming away with a 68-49 victory over the Indians. The 19-point defeat is the worst loss suffered by Comanche this season at Tommy D. Weast Gymnasium. This was also the second victory for the Longhorns over the Indians this season, with both wins coming by 15 or more points.

“We played as bad in the first half as we have all year,” head coach Nick Price said. “We didn’t show up and when you dig yourself that big of a hole, it’s hard to come back against a good team, no matter how hard you play in the second half.”

At the 6:33 mark of the first, the game was all-square at 2-2. Lone Grove then went on a 5-0 run to make it 7-2, before the Indians cut the lead to 8-7 with just under three minutes left. Comanche wouldn’t get any closer the rest of the game.

Going into the second, it was 19-7 Longhorns, and things only got worse from there for the red and white.

When the halftime buzzer sounded, Comanche found itself down 35-14. A big key in the Longhorns gigantic lead was going 4-of-7 from behind the arc and shooting 11-of-15 in the half from the free throw line. CHS went 0-for-2 and from three-point range and only 2-of-4 from the charity stripe.

“We haven’t played a half like that all year and I hope we don’t do it again,” Price said about his team’s performance in the first half. “I just told our boys let’s just get that one out of the way and not have another one like it.”

After the break, the Longhorns kept up their hot shooting, keeping the Indians normally high-flying offense grounded. CHS tried to mount a comeback with 1:04 left reducing the Longhorns’ lead to 44-28, but LGHS still led going into the fourth at 46-28.

With 5:53 remaining in regulation, CHS got to within 15 at 49-34, but the early hole was too much to dig out of for the Indians as Lone Grove held off anymore chances of a comeback. LGHS shot 11-of-12 from the free throw line in the second half, while Comanche produced a 3-of-10 mark from the charity stripe. Three-point shooting once again went the way of the Longhorns, as they went 2-of-4 while the Indians went 2-of-8.

Leading the scoring on the night for the Indians was senior Eric Brownlee with 18 points followed by junior Garrett Morrow with 14. Senior Christian Orozco scored 11.

Comanche falls to 12-8 on the year with the loss, while Lone Grove improves to 12-5.

CHS will be back at home Tuesday night taking on Plainview with tip-off scheduled for 8 p.m. from Tommy D. Weast Gymnasium.

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