Sports 21 December 2018

Classic heartbreak

It wasn’t the Northeast Iowa Conference win the New Hampton boys basketball team desperately craved, but maybe it was the performance that can kickstart the Chickasaws in conference play.
“You know, when we got down to Mason City, we didn’t come back,” senior Tristan Sweitzer said after Charles City beat New Hampton 73-71 Tuesday night, “and when we got down to Waverly, we got blown out. But [tonight], when we got down, we came back. We showed ourselves something, I think. We showed we can be dangerous.”
Still, this was one of those “kicked-in-the-gut” games.
New Hampton built a 12-point lead late in the second quarter, rallied from an eight-point second half deficit to take the lead and then watched Charles City’s JJ Ritter hit a buzzer-beating layup to drop the Chickasaws to 4-5 overall and 0-3 in NEIC play.
“That was an incredible high school basketball game,” New Hampton coach Ryan Rausch said, “and I’ve been a part of some dandies before. … It hurts; dang, it should hurt. But I loved what my guys gave me tonight.”
For the full story, please see the Dec. 21 Tribune.
 

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