"At the end of the day, we didn’t do what we needed to do”

Ryan Lanigan, founder and Editor-in-Chief of HockomockSports.com, provides the game recap for the Mansfield win over Franklin in the State D1 Championship on Saturday.

"Just when it looked like Mansfield would run away the state championship, Franklin. Stormed back with a big run and had a chance to make it a two-possession game. 

And no one was surprised because that’s the never-give-up type of team that Franklin is. 

But when Mansfield was able to weather the storm, keep its lead, and break the pressure to pull away in the final minutes, it didn’t come as a big surprise either, because that’s the team the Hornets have been this season. 

And with that, Mansfield earned a hard-fought 67-54 win over Franklin to earn the D1 State Championship, the first in program history."

Continue reading the article online
https://hockomocksports.com/mansfield-boys-basketball-beats-rival-franklin-for-first-state-championship/

For the gallery of photos from the game
https://hockomocksports.smugmug.com/20172018/Winter-2017-2018/Mansfield-Franklin-Boys-Basketball-D1-State-Final-03-17-18/

"At the end of the day, we didn’t do what we needed to do” (HockomockSports.com photo)