welcome to one of memorial field house i'm ben gaines alongside chris stark as we wrap up the first half of the middlesex league season government takes on watertown in middlesex league rival day everybody is playing their traditional  sexily after the loss the both teams went in tied at the top at six and one in the league and belmont al lasted ruben after being down twenty three in the first half to win seventy nine the seventy one watertown lost on tuesday night to redding seventy five seventy in overtime to drop to fourth in middlesex they will run down the middle six league standings in just a minute first but for some your thoughts on the game will then look for a belmont to try and wrap up this first of the season the big one over water big once a night as the teams go through the starting lineups we'll just we'll bring you them a little bit in advance we don't have numbers on the watertown roster so it's going to take us a little while to figure out who's who exactly but we do know the names of the starting players  for the red raiders matt bourne is the center he stands six five and he's only a sophomore they also start brian madden bobby mirco is there kean he is one of the top scorers in the middlesex league at guard joe reynolds reading in lexington tied for fifth at four and four then melrose and wakefield tied for seventh at three and five burlington is two and six and stone is a win eight they play reading tonight in their rival game against will burn like a what was it a thirty one point turnaround in that game i predict that they're going to carry that momentum into this one win big and here we go with the national anthem with thirteen born in bounds so we now know that reynolds is number twenty one he gets calls for the f belmont by number twenty three kicks it back out this is reynolds holds up and hits five to four belmont thirteen twenty to play houses you might expect in a rival game last season don't want to split the season series with watertown each team winning on the other team's home court that was silva missing lon and that will prompt a timeout can see by the score and how close this game his van first as long as beaumont keeps winning they can stay at the top and moan in the middle sex league game lead over winchester and  this is margo gets over to silva a nice drive pulls up for three short off the right side of the room this is murder with the line first foul on murray go second on the team from watertown and knows gets it into karate in the back court on the drive clean blocked by it looks like to me end and analysis having a part in that one off the rebound phillips can hit it out of the right corner so becomes a way with that he's running those behind his back tries to drive and he's trying to do a little too much for for to me early on and it's thirteen to ten with a twenty nine to play and to me w first foul on the game for number thirteen for watertown we still don't know who he is always maybe we do that would be brian mad well short rebound by that mcavoy so much dominating the boards on both ends of the four right now that's what counts mcevoy a little too long on the first sergeant checks back in now and phillips will hit the bench for the first time hits the second one does mcavoy his first point friday guided loosely by reynolds spins called for the travel on the way to  madden checks back in as we have a time out called by belmont and will watch the belmont cheerleaders and done a good job early of containing the dangerous bobby murdo for for watertown he has just one point through the first ten minutes of the game and obviously that was on just a free throw this is more go with the ball more bringing it up will be and box out the shooter but got a little too much and you need them so this is more go shooting free throws gets the first misses the second to me close down the rebound looked strong on that play even though  came up with the save attempt have seen some time on the bench early on burgo has tipped away by phillips tries to pass and freddy has a block cleanly this is more go ahead of everybody gets the best things vision and it's twenty one to sixteen with four and a half minutes to play in minutes margo looking for something has to kick it back out the second half one thing that i notice about this game is how different it is from the merge game in movement on tuesday night in which the which belmont was down thirty nine to seventeen in the first half before coming back at the end of the first half and going on to win the game by eight this is so over back on his way in takes it back out so called a number thirty two kevin walsh it's perfect and he always got six with a minute to play it's thirty to twenty five belmont this is mirko taking his time guarded by s today should it has to do something with two on the clock can't get it and that will do it for the first half teams go into the workroom come on up by five thirty to twenty five we'll be right back with some stats in the second working off the screen holds up for three no short five for the rebound jump ball that'll go down to belmont now to lead all scorers and it's thirty to twenty seven with fifteen thirteen to play in the game drive and a foul to be caught on friday that was reynolds taking the ball to the hoop fourteen forty nine to play in starting twenty seven matt horne gets his fourth point of the night and it's thirty to twenty nine belmont with fourteen twenty to play this is to me t down run a few pleased to see what they can get work and easterly on water temp pulling down rebounds a little bit better than they were in the first half to me converts on one of two he has a to lead the marauders and it's thirty one twenty nine this is margo pulls up at the free throw line and hits so murdo's come back for twelve after he had just won through the first ten minutes of the game and we have a tie game with thirteen fifty three to play to me backs in puts it up and his margo i'm not sure what his average is but he has twelve i think it's something close to eighteen nineteen hours over the back of the back or that will be bomb on fall on the inbound twelve thirty six the plates thirty eight thirty job of keeping a close yeah we'll close game the whole way this is margo off the screen and you know now he's got to mirage and deal with freddy has to scramble to get back to reynolds off the screen kicked it out from ergo to short rebound no pressure from government eleven twenty nine to play it still thirty nine thirty three  twenty three and like priest have said he's one of the top scorers in the six league he gets the first number twenty four checks in now for watertown that would be been notion of his first name as sure as so far and a forty one to thirty four seven point lead for belmont their biggest of the half with ten twenty to play mirco and he was fouled by mike's housing that'll be three on him now be time out charge to belmont will take it with them will be right back about to try to free throws in a forty three forty one game with eight o two to play dumb on top so hydrogen has six tonight he misses the first free throw off the back of the  room to make it a three point game were back in this one belmont to inbound after the transition basket by reynolds born on the big pine one point watertown lead mcevoy brings the ball up now so hard so much fun out of a little bit lately they were up seven only a couple  so to not be the one trying to cut the belmont deficit to  to me second free throw they're going to call a foul on the rebound foul on number twenty three bobby murry go for watertown  it's forty forty six watertown this is margo th game he would have needed both the time now this one to cut into a one point game and he gets the second one watertown wants a timeout we'll take this one with them will be right back with them in a five to play in a fifty three fifty two game we're back after the timeout force one point game with a minute five to play fifty three fifty two certainly isn't the beaumont blow out that we both predicted very surprised but also since we went to before as five very day and what a town is going to take one more time out we'll be right back probably with the conclusion of this one all right we're back twenty three seconds still showing on the clock and it's a fifty five fifty two lead for the marauders trying to beat the  red raiders in watertown of course the hated rivals and we got a great game coming down to the wire watertown will fall on the invalid and we'll see a long drawn out final ten seconds come i want to time out will take this one and we'll be right back  town this year fifty seven to fifty two we'll be right back with some stats and wrap this one up here from one a field house after a quick break joe to seventeen points did really well along with it seven rebounds tonight mcevoy an amazing seventeen rebounds which is he just keeps tended up underneath the boards and he hasn't had eleven points and behind him karate