Basketball Playoffs - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:41 - 0 Comments

Pride Move on to Face Ghosts in Div I Semi Finals

Jonas Emilsson
www.KramMag.com

Anthony Manful’s defense had been a thorn in the sides of the St. Mary’s Saints throughout the entire game.

And on a fumbled inbounds pass with just 25 seconds to play in an extremely tight quarter-final match between the Notre Dame Pride and the St. Mary’s Saints, Manful made perhaps the most important defensive play of the game by pouncing on a bungled in-bounds pass to negate the Saints’ last-ditch effort to tie the game.

On top of making the key defensive play, Manuful was also tasked with stopping Aloysius Callaghan, the Saints’ most dangerous scorer.

“He did a wonderful job on him,” said Pride’s head coach Mike McFarland. “But in spite of that, I bet the kid still had seven threes out there. I thought he did a really good job, and the big steal when we’re up by three at the end of the game, he played a great game.”

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Callaghan didn’t finish with seven three pointer on his own, but that is how many shots the Saints hit from beyond the arc in the first half.

Josh Jebose and David Lodovica each scored 24 points as the Pride earned a date with the Bishop Grandin Ghosts on Thursday night in semi-final action thanks to their 77-71 victory over the Saints.

Nick Ettinger led the Saints with 18 points. Continue…