LYNN – Lots of fouls and poor shooting started off Tuesday’s Northeastern Conference bout between cross-town rivals Lynn English and Lynn Classical, but by game’s end, chaotic defense and paint dominance lifted the No. 1 Bulldogs to another victory.
Ademide Badmus led an effort that called on a lot of bench support due to foul trouble, posting 22 points and 14 rebounds en route to a 90-52 rout of the host Rams (8-4). Four different players scored in double-digits for Lynn English (10-2), mostly around the basket, as many offensive rebounds and second-chance points came in a big third quarter to boost a 44-16 scoring advantage in the paint.
That paired with high-intensity, full-court defense to qualify the Bulldogs for the state tournament despite 20-for-33 shooting from the line and 8-for-28 shooting from deep.
“I think tonight wasn’t one of our better shooting nights … but we figured out a way to win,” said Lynn English head coach Antonio Anderson. “They played us tough, but third quarter, we kind of got control back a little bit. Opened it up, slowed them down from scoring. … We just wanted to make their shots tougher, no easy looks.”
As the two teams played physical defense to the tune of 30 combined fouls in the first half, quite a few of the stars from each program were forced to sit quite a bit.
English’s Louis Rivera Jr. (11 points), Joaquin Crespo and Aaron Vizcaino stepped up off the bench to play energetic defense alongside some of the starters, but the Bulldogs’ 11-for-24 shooting from the line gave Classical’s Jeff Barbosa (17 points) and Jeff Hill (14 points) a chance to keep the game within striking distance. At one point, a 14-point second-quarter lead was even trimmed to six as starters Badmus, Jarnel Guzman (13 points) and Mukeba Jean-Baptiste (nine points, three blocks, four steals) sat.
A small surge on both sides of the ball gave English an 11-point halftime lead, though, before the third quarter struck a different tune.
“(Fouls) were OK, we’re deep,” Anderson said. “The foul trouble didn’t hurt us as much, but we’ve got to prevent ourselves from fouling.”
Behind solid rebounding and seven of the team’s 18 total second-chance points coming on the offensive side in the third, the Bulldogs really took control of the paint to outscore Lynn Classical 23-7 in the frame. Jean-Baptiste registered eight points and three blocks in that span, while Jack Rodriguez (13 points) and Guzman also came up big.
Lynn Classical couldn’t really get much of anything going up until a 19-point fourth quarter, when the game was out of reach.
“We’re a defensive team,” Badmus said. “(Anderson) mainly focuses on defense first, then offense. He stresses a lot about that.”
Three-point shooting improved in the second half for the Bulldogs, with six of the team’s eight shots from deep sinking in the second half. Rivera hit two of his threes in the half, while Guzman’s lone three on an atypically cold night also came in that time.
Still, the dominance around the paint – as Classical center Angel Garcia sat much of the game with foul trouble – proved to be the key difference-maker for English.
“It was really important,” Badmus said. “We had to just force it down low, and we made layups. We missed some free throws, but it was all good at the end. We ended up getting those free throws back from steals, layups.”
“That’s what we do,” Anderson said.
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