my head coach paul lyons has set a goal for his marauders a state championship for eighteen years these guys have dreamed that one day they would be the best in the sport that encompasses such an important part of their lives tonight the chance for everyone's dream to become reality take center stage in central it seems like the garden game was months ago but through snow and ice the marauders from belmont and the kona warriors finally square off tonight at stake a state championship to be determined at that with their cen welcome to the west or center of the second largest city in new england home of the massachusetts high school basketball tournament i'm doug ray for channel eight sports and tonight is the night that these guys have been waiting for the division two state so that should be and it's a match up watch race up palmer to get the ball a lot more orders will look for him early on none but they're an excellent three point shooting team and that's something the marauders will have to watch and in their semi state semifinal game they went thirteen to twenty six from three point range so they can shoot the trade but the mater's also have two very good defensive guards and doug connelly and jans regional are number twelve john who garrett he's the one to watch number twelve number forty four brian mcgovern also a very good three point shooter he had set to tip the division two state finals from outside earlier on in the year but he has worked hard on that shot and from a sixteen on in he's money all right palmer out in front of number fourteen chris nolan that's a there's a mismatch right there as well kona tries to set up something inside the paint the shot is taken and missed by number twenty and left a out of the big block that was jimbo white on the miss moby for three front five nothing i tell you watching the martyr's practice the past couple days this is a confident group of young men right here they are seniors they played together since they were in sixth grade they want this thing the as he was all over number five jeremy  players stephen pollard one of the best players to ever play for belmont high school they get a look at the belmont high school cheerleaders who have stuck with this team all throughout the season and supply the crowd with some chance stephen pollard on hand as the leading score for all my high school history right now mobius really turned it on in the tournament live and he's got to be pushing close  my high school cheerleaders going to nice and writers in front nine to two thirteen forty left to go in the first half just under way here at the wester center in western massachusetts this is a beautiful complex both of you haven't been out here to see this place makes the garden look like the belmont town dump because this place is nice it's not a bad seat in this place every seat you can see perfectly it's clean there are no rats in the your seat no you get in the hands of them or five jeremy lamb no around palmer misses the shot left ariana's with a rebound moby with a beautiful passed a law pierre in for two thirteen for belmont by nine they get inside to white white will dribble it out and set it up well cona very patient team they're very well coached and they're very well disciplined they go down low and are going to jeremy lamb is all of five ten and he said six nine palm into the ground thirteen for the riders will set their off and stop well kono likes to press three quarter they go down low to no outside jimbo white who hits the eighteen footer just inside the line and all the is past almost picked off by lam sixteen six belmont by of has got to be careful with lamb lamb sneaking into get a lot of boards five second violation nice defensive pressure by left or he out of all of the facets of his game is doing well but i don't remember a box out because he can't afford palmer on the bench with two and that christiansen in their good a nice job defensively blocked a shot already well the now fifteen foot  talking to him before they game you would know is about to play in a state championship final joking around smiling having fun with this kid once a game starts all business they throw it away as the pass was intended for number five jeremy just checked into the game while the tries to go for a la pierre and kevin could hold onto it difficult pass to hold onto then it will be what cone of ball twenty to ten all right mcgovern will bring it up and he is guarded by connally the governor will be defense very toughly all throughout this game together inside the lamb lamb off balance this is a nice rebound by christiansen coach and ladley of the will cone regional warriors needed a timeout and after that shot by while the you just look at him and he shakes his head there's nothing you can do you have three blue shirts on him and if you know if a five ten point guard going to be hitting everything any of a six nine guy you can you know score as much as he wants and boy he has this hands full that's right their game at least in the last game was to shoot the three pointers and they are getting the threes right now because belmont is playing right out there with the team defense as you said the intensity of the belmont deep and so far has been incredible and if they can keep that up and keep walking on a four shooting threes that's a big part of their game and if you see  they go inside to christianson christianson misses the shot from about a foot away and mcgovern to bring it out six thirty left to go in the first half twenty to twelve belmont by ten inside the lam lam misses the shot rebounded nicely by christiansen who is doing a big job on the board twenty four twelve six minutes left twenty four fourteen a christensen this is a nice job in his stint yeah he's dominating the boards right now doug very impressive a play by christiansen the only thing that's a little disconcerting is what one has been getting a lot of second chance rebounds and as we said the belmont is a huge size advantage not quite runners with their largest lead of fourteen twenty eight to fourteen for thirty left in a ball goes out of bounds and going to call a best the first in the line and referee make sack call from the baseline pointer my lamis missed once again they get their own office of rebound as that was number thirty four brian to cat no wonder they were twenty one in two they don't need guy six nine they got the office of bo feet they are doing all right in the office of glass and that's again that's one of the reasons why they're in this game really down by fourteen this could be a big time blowout palmer now mcgovern through the lane and it goes out of bounds off of christianson who blocks the shot there and swing it around to an open no no misses the shot in the weak side rebound error crashing those boards in there keeping the ball alive if they miss a shot well i think the conclusion that can be made there is that you don't have to be big to be rebound you know be a good rebounder basically just have to anticipate you have to get in position you have to box out affectively and will come has been able to any given themselves a lot of second chance opportunities fortunately for belmont they're not cashing in on a lot of them right now so if belmont can you know try to start controlling the boards again he should be in pretty good shape they're up twelve but as you said they play pretty sloppy and can certainly play a three nineteen remaining up by twelve runners are definitely doing some things right and that's mainly getting the ball in the hands of mommy and letting him create the often speak us believe that beria jumper or runners can't buy a rebound they throw it away well it was mcgovern and he was looking for a lamb on the sideline rotters turning the ball over and boxing out something you don't want to see you want to call it on the floor as he was fouled from behind it's nice job by christiansen and crashing those boards flower will be on the floor this is the free throw thirty three sixteen belmont in front and the garrett can't catch up with it and will be belmont ball with one forty nine left rogers will put in my costello into the game lamb now around costello picks up a second foul a con everything on the freshman that's the team's fifth so both will kona and belmont play loses control and it will be called for a walk but connally shows that good ups that's something that they work on in a circle drill that they do at the end of practice where they throw the ball to all the circles and they bet mcgovern for three misses while the now from half court just miss thirty nine seventeen belmont in front of their largest lead of twenty two point forty one seventeen but yeah that's right they were down nineteen points with five forty eight left and they defeated boston tech as an ellis from fift given the wide open jumpers and can't give them no shot also the nice drive to the who race it was the too quick fouls to come out of the game christianson picked up more than picked up the slack with just bang in the boards completely and right now belmont is in control there are what twenty four points and i mean it could be you know it could certainly be a lot more and i just have to say one other thing i think this kid mcgovern for what cone of the name of govern seems to be associated with a lot of routes and the history of politics sports and everything that's  i was going to say this is a team walk on and it's live by the three point shot all season i don't think they've made once and i can't recall and i mean that's a good part of the reason why they're down so much and and belmont even despite some sloppy play is been in control throughout so they haven't i don't think they entire game brodeur is playing a good man to man defense that's what's up preventing the corner from getting those good shots while he threw the lane mrs lapierre there for the took it right out of the hands of what conus number fourteen chris know right out of a  palmer to the ground and crying for the ball as he has the positioning there is not get it to him they go down low to la pierre la pierre with a nice move is blocked from behind defensive intensity play a lot more physical and start the press and you want to maintain the ten minutes left runners can't go a couple minutes without a scoring a basket while he called some point in this game to get back in a because they're still down twenty four right now and yet they will i mean they're doing the things that what it takes to lead up to the ad but you know for them three point shooting has been ultra cold fifty four to twenty eight fifty left writers playing very loose out there think you could stick a fork in the warriors they are finished i think the happiest people right now in the belmont bench of those last seven or eight guys who we don't see playing all the time seven minutes left they're coming into this game a lot earlier than they expected so that's right maybe in a couple minutes the first as crisp it's great to see the rest of this team as it's been a team effort all season and you know it's great to see the whole team contributing tonight that's what it takes to win a state championship you have to have a total team effort you got to you know you have to be eight or ten deep that's what they've been all season while he doesn't play a lot of mystery the regular season but in the tournament when you needed him averaged twenty five a game and this kid is a player sixty to thirty four and third try to find patterson six forty eight left as last place to see that patterson is in the game now and rodgers as you said will get a lot of their players in the game i'm all other players in this game eventual a three point points and turn homers guys tonight sixty to thirty four riders well in command has his past stripped away palmer now but it's something that a selects to put the ball up off the glass nothing wrong with that sixty two thirty four questions in game getting set to come back in the game right and to cut gets to sixty two to thirty six well last night in the girls state finals the western part of the state won all three and so night the eastern part of the state looks like they want to go too far too slowly just the flowers for forty seven left in kind of a melodramatic state championship for the riders but they'll take it they certainly will jog you know one of the things i find kind of interesting is at the beginning of the game the first out though if this is the thirty fifth anniversary of the one nine hundred fifty eight belmont team that won the then klasky championship because they didn't play a state tournament back then they won the tech tournament players like bob stretch foley and josh hamilton were the stars on that seam and  i'm sure there's a few of those former belmont players are watching this game tonight and they're happy to see that no one is going to win their first state full state championship that's right and will be only the second state championship ever involve a high school history in the full state format of the magnitude such as this in a big term and i mean the one high school is one as many games of the term and as it will have to be one in the n c a a division one basketball tournaments six games that's what it takes had time to also thank all those belmont supporters for coming out all the way out here to worcester for tonight's game a little bit of a longer track than the garden and great supports a night leading this team and civic during maters just like they did the boston garden got on the board  coming back against arlington they blew out latin academy they played a nice game against lincoln sudbury was a very talented club blew up burke in the midst of blowing out with kona here for the state championship side students hey they're not going to stop the runners who get on the court though can look back on the rest of their lives definitely and what a moment this is i don't know what else you can say on march madness has gripped the town of belmont though the great you know sport haps is the greatest team ever in belmont sports right here that you're watching on the floor tonight they can disagree with him i mean they can disagree with you i mean they are certainly is a very very talented basketball team and you know you can go as far as to say that there isn't a team in the state on the high school level they could beat this team i think this team could argue we beat either the division one opponents that we're going to see tonight this is you know as you said it's a great team  another solid effort he's got to be the tournament m v p the man is an awesome team but movie makes a go he makes it happen directing that off and keeping it in sync that's what it's all about going back to our preview show that we did with coach lyons and the seniors starters and i actually was with the captains and i said i remember asking this question the coach lions if we sit back here in march and do a post season show what will this what will the s team be determined by he said defense and defense really has done it really jay anson ellis and doug connelly have stopped the big players on the other teams and that's what this team this team was just as good last year but those players were killed belmont in arkham out this year with defensive guards they stopped they should have stopped the bowlers the vanda bogart's the jeffersons those have been the guys i mean we said that was going to be the key in each of the tournament games and it is it has come true one forty five left to go before the writers can absolutely celebrate four seconds left before the writers can celebrate absolutely incredible a storybook season for the kids are all great kids they're a lot of fun to be with and i enjoyed it so much covering them and i can't congratulate them enough and i'm so happy for them happy for their families and the fans and for the whole school is something  twenty five seconds left the countdown begin