and we are no starts off the range i'm david leader and i'm david swartz camera man george will lead westwood this is a big game for us what if they win this game they go on to the semifinals on thursday night norn going inside out here playing a bit of a two man game between their guard their big misses the short jumper ball that they call the travel but it was a nice play by max jacobsen he went down to get it  he blew the whistle i thought they were looking for a foul but i guess not yesterday norton actually beat west roxbury parkway a team that we had beaten twice during the regular season and they looked really good and parkway played us close so it's not surprising that norton would be a tough westwood coach is probably going to be reminding his players that they need to know who they're guarding match up that's been the problem here there's been some players who've just been open wide open lack of communication but with the help of the coach i think they can clean that up and they're right on their wolverine play again which is basically a little motion off and kick it to the weighing and then the point guard heads back to the basket and looks for the given go north play in a tough though it down again they get the bucket to go that was a great drive by brandon and you know brandon is taller than most of the kids out there so this could be a an opportunity for him to really look for as often as today look like they call miss in the first one to the left and the second one is nothing but net sports great love for it's really important which team gets their free throws because usually you don't see most teams shooting a puck fifty percent but when the rare team does they can really make an norton running their own passing cut away their own version of we just need to settle it down and regroup blo excellent play by max good movie was running full speed then stopped on a dime and its defenders just went right by him that's what done against tide comes in a play he's a factor in both  we are at a neutral site here so it's hard to tell where the favoritism lies but we've got a lot of fans from norton and a lot from west one very important part of the playoff process in metro west trying to pick  kevin hurley's playing essentially the point forward position because he's one of their bigger kids takes the jumper and he chases down his own runners no good lot of contact there and norton's looking to run with it told me fahy thought about that three but update when i got to go i was a great drive by tommy and tommy had a terrific game yesterday in fact he hit a three pointer which was really one of the highlights of yesterday's game the ball stays with norton the see i'm going to disagree with that all there because he was on a fast break they were just getting back in there protecting the basket that's just helped the fence i don't know look like that but they're called a tight thing you like to see both given a nice open jumper but he just missed it kevin's looking for his off and surly which is good we need his off and cool it was a nice play by joey knocked out of bounds joey has been a huge has had a huge influence on this westwood defense here just getting his hand in every single pass that comes his w is you can tell everybody that i hate getting haircuts and as you can see he's always got a good head of hair on a time he's a great kid and you know he likes to play soccer and baseball it could be for a ping pong scholarship yeah exactly double team because kevin didn't see him coming there there's only seven seconds left and they fall down the six point six seconds left joe we hadn't thrown it in to kevin hurley is going to look to go quickly four seconds gets it to the middle and he's battled yet again but they've got to take it a shot westwood trails by three but it's anybody's game and we are back start of the second quarter west which hails by three but they're going to have the ball here it's anybody's game both teams have fought extremely hard on drives so there it is again metonymy drives then just misses the layout and they call it travel iran in the box here david nor moving it back up top they're just passing cutting at every opportunity and he is clobbered down there he's going to have a line shooting to free throws boy norton's got a couple of shots on the perimeter that they've made but when they try to take it to the hoop everyone's collapse and there's no easy buckets for norton you know norton's got one big kid that dennis but that he's blocking all right now i'm going to have to get a body on him but other than that we have a lot of height and you got to think that's going to help us defensively and getting rebounds throughout the game and we do have the lead the first lead of the game for westwood eleven a ten with five thirty left in the second quarter tommy playing his guy real tough coach from new york now to call a timeout because along with the rest of the west would team was stifling they couldn't get anything going on off and it's a good little run here for and we're back wes with just recently took the lead and they're looking to extend it here it was a tough defense they think often guarding this man  no one players just crowding the ball yeah well we spread it out often so little bit looks like we're getting our shots but they are collapsing nice clean in the last today yesterday brendan had a game a hockey game before the basketball game in the morning he played two sports before he even had lunch you want to know what i did before lunch what's he slept well about it that makes sense ok this looks like a full scale substitution in the game we've got hurley  probably the most aggressive player on the westwood team he plays great defense he's always in there getting the rebounds and loose balls and you know what he's around the basket and he'll pick up a few baskets throughout the game as well every team needs a player like daniel tried or who plays aggressive and hard and you know always there to help his teammates would almost gets a steal there but normally comes up with it and there fouls in the paint on the floor as norton comes in five new players here they're going to have the ball under the basket you know norton has a nice set up there where they've got ten players they go five in five zero you know coach king with c coach try to have to mix and match a little bit more with seven on the bench and twelve players so i mean as a coach it's always easiest if you can have a number like ten you don't even need to worry about subs you can focus on the game absolutely but the coaches have done a great job this year everyone's got a great opportunity to play and you know here we are and we're in the quarter finals with a great opportunity to play thursday night if we can take this game here david two shots for norton norton has not missed on their jumper it's very impressive so for if wes with can just stay in this game you know evening out second half team but you know i think wes what's playing a tough team today and so we're going to just have to continue to grind through it better back yesterday as i mentioned earlier in the broadcast he had it and yesterday it was off the back board today straight on when tommy is a three point specialist and we got almost a player can i mean in nine hundred seconds both teams can put on their full court press we'll see how both teams utilize th i mean shots no good and what's what's going to run with  out there i thought he took maybe one or two extra steps that look like that but you know norton to their credit is trying to use a little of their speed against our size as a minute fifty five left in the second quarter sixteen thirteen west if you notice for these kids here david at this level they can shoot the free throw at the traditional free throw line or they can step up but a half a foot in front some of the kids step up and some of the kids stay with the regular free throw line it's kind of keeping static data but i'm thinking brennan must have seven or eight rebounds already in the first h all right but david's got to step out he's getting a call from his father ben leader in now i'm flying solo we might have to do a little recruiting of well kaufman who's given me the eye from the corner over there early at the free throw line yelling he's feeling the frustrations an important time in the game right now as well so it's making a great run we're back again just to recap where we're at or in the second quarter here the bellingham middle school westwood is beating norton twenty to thirteen with a minute and five left max jacobson thrown the ball into brandon done again this looks like a out of bounds play call by coach k what up play pass to brendan down again in another steal by hurley and another two and norton calls a quick timeout and now it's twenty four thirteen and it's completely westwood one sided now with a eleven nothing run all fuel by the size in the skill of the westwood fourth graders and in particular their press has been a real thorn in or inside  the score with fifty three seconds left in the second quarter is twenty four to thirteen westwood all right we're back let's see if norton can get the ball over half court they haven't been able to get over the last four or five times they're really struggling to bring the ball out west which defenses pressing them hard oh boy they got down again probably on the body because it looked clean on the block too short fall for number one pass three second call there not surprisingly but down on the block get know the rebounds kids got to you know once the rebound comes in get out of that another steal by hurley who's got about four in the last two minutes and cain is only six seconds left nortons got to push it takes a great steal and they call travel there's only one second left looks like we're going to head into the half time here with a ten point lead unless something miraculous happens by norton good ball movement nortons really spreading the floor here and they got and you know daniel's father is one of the assistant coaches and daniel is a great kid and he told me before the game he wants to go to duke play for coach k he has a brother named jake an assistant named amanda and his mother mary all big supporters here in the stands and when he's not playing basketball he likes to go skiing at his new hampshire college and rumor has it daniel's got a big screen t v in his basement that he likes to spend a lot of time with his brother and sister all right daniel makes one of two norton back here were up thirteen with six minutes left on the third think kevin's been a terrific basketball player and he like d n a try to also has his father as one of the assistant coaches jeff hurley kevin also is a terrific athlete employees baseball and a lot of kids on this team want to go to do because he also wants to go to duke or to u mass and kevin also spends a lot of time in the summers down at his place in cape cod  for three that's the second three pointer for westwood today and a timeout by orton as the lead opens to fourteen thirty sixteen with five minutes left in the third can see in the background that gentleman with the orange at the scoreboard that's dennis but patty's father he's been a score board keeper for most of the games this season and has done a terrific job all right turn over by norton early has it in a quick call by coach cain has done again had possession on the ground and decides to call  and ok we're back and again just to recap we're in the third quarter here a bellingham middle school westwood playing up fourteen against norton thirty to sixteen and now it's thirty two to sixteen right two points there for norton looks like why they called they a violation going into the lane too early on westwood so that shot didn't count nortons ball all right norton sport back to back buckets here making a little bit of a run thirty three to twenty family and he's cover a number twelve on norton gavin's also a good little athlete plays baseball ois soccer plays flag football and he likes he likes to sing it also does theater  dribbling around the key passes it into tommy tommy throws it underneath the net and is not good but he gets his own rebound and puts it in what a great play and tommy's got a big smile on his face because he knows that i think he fooled the norton team into thinking that that first one might have been good but it wasn't and there they collapsed on norton and they forced to travel just one minute left here in the third thirty five twenty two all right go back or turn over their ball goes back to norton really work on the ball here dylan play in t gavin was aggressively after that one and got followed with a push from behind it looks like he's ok though good thing he's got that mouth guard and i know his mom is big on keeping his mouth guard when he plays and got hit in the face there and they don't call a fall but they are low in the whistle just to make sure he's ok and dillon i'll tell you what he's so great kid i was talking to him before the game you want to go to syracuse which is my alma mater he also plays lacrosse and soccer and goes to the cape in the summer and that was a long shot by joey han great rebound by del and it's a jump ball but it is going to go back to it is going to go back to north and don't also told me he's got a great dog that he spends a lot of time with name buzzer and at the end of three westwood thirty five norton twenty two all right we're back start of the forests thirty five twenty two west toward twelve thirty  the game was supposed to start at eleven but we got off to a late start because the girl's game before didn't end until about twenty after eleven you have been sports center brendan looks like they're going to call a follow on that he got bumped pretty hard for starting the fourth with a petty think the officials call in a double team there it's hard to hear from this vantage point oh a great block by done again a tough call on that one it looked like he had all ball but i think the rough study got him what the body you know between dunnigan and petit they have done a great job on the glass today dennis got to get a body on his guy he's cover a number ten who's a big kid so i think the official was telling gavin swartz who was dribbling the ball up and taking them off got out of his mouth while he was dribbling it looked like he was multitasking but probably not a good idea while you're playing basketball gavin i don't know where he learned that it could have been from his father all right mouthguard in ball in seven minutes left westwood up eleven and another follow on down again who has been really hard for will norton to cover today oh a nice pick by joey so drawn to gavin who throws it up but it looks like it's getting picked off that was a great pick by joe he said wrong they just couldn't get it in there you know i was talking to joe he said before i said joey tell me something funny about he said i just want everyone to know that i'm amazing and you know i also understand that he absolutely loves wild roller coasters all right back to the action done again with another rebound over t i'll tell you what westwood has had a great season and if they can hang on for the next six minutes they're going to be playing in the semifinals on thursday night and if they win that one i think saturday morning would be the finals the team really seems jelling they play well together the kids all like one another very well coached and i think the kids out a lot of fun and that's part of their success this year is you know when you're having fun and you've got good chemistry you know the team  and i think they're doing that on a coach k and it's leadership alright a big hand for brendan dunnigan i don't know if that's it for him but wow did he play a big game today he was all over the boards defensively he was shutting the other team down  brendan's done that a few times this year where he's just absolutely dominated on both ends of the  at thirty seven twenty five six twenty one left sort struggling up sorts crosses over over to pretty opt for two what a great shot by dennis but patty is another one of our players who spends a lot of time at the cape with his family over the summer rebound now he's bringing it back up to reflect defense by nathan oh i thought they reached on him there but they called them for a double dribble i think the refs might have missed that one  orton ball going back the other way thirty nine twenty five five seventeen left swartz getting picked off and help some oh boy the kid made a nice shot again i thought nathan was there for the clean block but musta called it on the body now the official said he hit him on his arm well if you hit him on his arm i'm pretty sure with nathan strength the kid's not going to get that basket in the hoop so i'm going to i'm going to say that was a tough call all right thirty nine twenty eight five twelve  all right we've got some subs coming in we've got joey here in dillon robertson kevin hurley max jacobsen and daniel tried are all in and we have a time out on the floor all right we're back norton making a little bit of a run here and we go with our subs we've got hurley robertson hand in jacobsen in tried or in the game early is looking to go to the basket norton back the other  way tough call on max jacobsen imac has had a terrific season and i'll tell you he's one of the fastest kids you'll see in westwood he's got two older sisters and a brother he plays soccer you should see him on a soccer field in the summers he loves to go to his new hampshire cabin i don't know how many followers that is on max but we got to sub in tommy king came in from actually  first one a little hard off the back three thirty five left westwood up nine and i'll tell you norton's making this a little a little closer then i think the comfort level of inbounds pass norton they go up two points coach cain does not like what he sees it's thirty nine thirty two they're only down seven now norton with three twenty six all right we're back it looks like they put the press on with seven with three minutes and twenty five seconds left norton's going to bring the pressure tommy cain has the ball in time he's got a great handle and so they're just going to clear it out for him and let him bring it out he's got that smooth a lefty move he keeps it in that left hand if he's got a crossover he can but he's looking for his off and oh i just missed it and i called and you know tommy made a great drive you really broke their press all by himself another one of our kids who wants to go to duke and i don't know what it is with but we got a lot of fans on this team you know he told me his favorite food is lobster and he loves to go kayaking and playing with his dog would only up five with three minutes left we're going to probably need a couple more buckets to seal than a foul by paddy the ball was stolen by norton on the press and we've got to figure out this press because right now norton is on a big time run we were up sixteen it was thirty two to sixteen and since that time they've gone on an eight to seven run to cut it to a five point lead shots are going to be big now that norton is in the bonus they're getting two shots here he sets it back up to tommy fahy now spread it out and run the often so it looks like they want to do over the king who's going to take his time getting the often set you know when they need a puck and where do they go they go to her early he's too strong going to the hoop they can't stop him another foul here i don't know if that was on earlier not but that was a great basket by kevin early on the other side that really was a basket to stop the bleeding and they needed it because they were only up five now that pushes it back up to seven as you can see kevin hurley's got number twenty three i don't know if that's because his favorite one of his favorite players is michael jordan or maybe his dad gave it to him for good luck not a board by hurley up to cain looks like they're looking at a shot they're not slowing it down up seven they're going to set it up and run they're often norton's coaches imploring his team to press get up timeout norton with one fifty nine left it's forty one to thirty four westwood up by seven as you can see we got the younger brothers of the fourth graders out there right here with the green and white ball we've got he smile and i think he likes the camera all right we're back listen those little kids those are our future recruits inbounds play designed to hurley and it looks like he got fall that he's going to go to the foul line for to coach kane i think dial that one up during the timeout coach cains always coaching these kids doing a great job they really listen to him sometimes he said but most of the time it seems like he's standing up i think he gets his nervousness so more when he stands oh they called her early going into early on a violation but he got his own rebound so you want to two forty two thirty four there up a here comes the press norton was not able to get the ball in and really get this press and a five second call great defense by westwood in the first half norton really struggled to and that's when the game turned around and i'll tell you what's what keeps the press on it's going to be tough for norton to get eight points in two minutes  imbalance past a hurley turnaround gets blocked you don't see that back up comes norton aggressively pulls it back and then goes back to the hoop and again gets foll earlies been at the foul line a few times today as you can see he steps in a little bit closer and hits the first one you know i don't know why all these kids don't step in if they're going to give you the advantage of might as well get a little bit closer especially in the game where you get a little tired and you might come up short on kevin decides to know he's stepping up on this one as well nice and easy hits both of them up ten  norton back the other way tommy cain actually made a great steal but his momentum carried him into the back court and they called the back court violation so norton off the line and so another turnover for norton i think westwards defenses just been a little too much for them to handle nice pass by trying to wrap hurley to run the break over the face up for