Franklin Matters: Wins posted by FHS girls and boys basketball, and swim teams on Friday

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Wins posted by FHS girls and boys basketball, and swim teams on Friday

Via HockomockSports we share the results of the FHS sports action on Friday, Jan 11, 2019

Girls Basketball = Franklin, 75 @ Taunton, 37 – Final
– Ali Brigham was dominant again for the Panthers, scoring 26 points and pulling down 17 rebounds. Bea Bondhus added 12 points for Franklin, which had 11 different players get on the score sheet.

Boys Swimming = Franklin, 56 @ Taunton, 37 – Final

Girls Swimming = Franklin, 51 @ Taunton, 42 – Final

Boys Basketball = Taunton, 45 @ Franklin, 50 – Final
Ryan Lanigan, founder and Editor-in-Chief of HockomockSports.com provides the game recap:

"After seeing a large first half lead disappear, the Franklin boys basketball team was on the verge of letting a second half lead evaporate as well.

Holding a five-point lead with 1:30 to, Franklin’s advantage quickly shrunk to just one after a putback from Taunton senior Michel Quinn and a strong take from Lou Vendrell with 39.8 to go.

The Panthers, after scoring 20 points in the first quarter, had been limited to just 30 over the next 23 minutes and were in need of a spark. After a timeout, Franklin got the ball into the hands of junior Chris Edgehill (13 points, five assists), and he took advantage of a Taunton miscommunication after a double screen to get enough separation for a three with 20 seconds left, helping secure a 50-45 win over Taunton.

“It was absolutely a grind,” said Franklin head coach CJ Neely. “Getting off to a great start helps a lot especially when you aren’t playing your best in the middle quarters. The second and third quarters we got really stagnant on offense. We stopped doing everything we did in the first quarter that was working. We weren’t running the floor as hard, we weren’t cutting or screening as hard, we weren’t reacting off screens really well. The motion got stymied, we weren’t moving the ball.”