From LBPOSTSports.com: It will be difficult to refrain from just doing a play-by-play of this entire game, or from simply saying, “You gotta see this to believe it, go check out our highlight video.” But we’ll try to refrain—in what was undoubtedly the most exciting game of the season, the Millikan Rams boys’ basketball team rose on the shoulders of their top scorer, Kierre Beverly, and a new hero, Reggie Givens, whose last-millisecond three-pointer capped a 53-51 upset stunner to bring the Rams up to 5-4, and drop the ‘Rabbits to 7-2 with their second consecutive league loss.
The game started out unusually—Poly’s guards, normally reliable shooters, were ice cold, and Millikan rode that, along with some excellent work on the offensive boards, to a 15-2 start to the game, silencing the home crowd. It was 22-10 Millikan at the end of the first quarter, and Poly hadn’t gotten any scoring from their guards until there were just three seconds left in the first period, when Michael Mayes put in two of his five on the game—the other eight points in the first for Poly came from Ryan Anderson and Julian Camper, who did what they could from down low.
It wasn’t until about three minutes into the second quarter that the ‘Rabbits managed to score from outside the key, off a Ryan Anderson jumper. With their offense so one-dimensional, the Rams continued to take away the inside, while Beverly spurred the Rams’ offensive assault on—he had 18 points in the first half, a sizable percentage of his team’s 29. Thanks to the efforts of Anderson and Camper, who combined for eight in the second quarter, Poly was down by just seven at intermission.
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