belmont nine and two in the middle six league so far this year ten in two overall the burlington red devils come in at four and seven there in league an overall records are identical a little background on the game for belmont they had an up and down week last week losing last monday ninety one to seventy seven at wakefield but then following that up on friday with a sixty four to sixty three win at winchester some dramatics in that one in case you haven't already heard russ phillips had a three with four seconds left on the clock in the second half to win that game for the marauders now of course moment with ten wins overall of their twenty wins that should leave them in good position to make the playoffs they should they should win some games going into the playoffs but how is  going to keep them motivated knowing that they are a lock for the playoffs basically co signs a very experienced coach and coach for many many years here belmont high and has been very successful in the years so i'm sure this is not the first time that  have more height than the riders that could be a factor in this one a little more on that the minute some of that hate ray murphy is a six foot three jr he will wear number ten and number twelve every bishop a six five senior play center for the team they look decent in a in an early season last versus belmont in burlington we broadcast that game in mid december we should mention that murphy is the third top is the number three scorer in the middle continue the same go inside a few times but keep the shots outside perri just to break down we have a minute for you before the starting line up the top five in scoring the middlesex league for wakefield is leading scorer in the league with twenty two point nine points per game but we got word from the from the wakefield winchester game that he sprained his ankle he might be out for a decent period of time the coach was not sure for wakefield at the time how long his star player would be out of the line as usual in the month the national anthem will be sung by three alright so excellent as usual the three dimensionally to sing the national anthem here starting line for you from burlington at point guard it'll be number twenty met pierce a five ten senior shooting guard number twenty two matt mccarthy five eleven senior small forward number thirty one  power forward met mcavoy and joe to me will play center in this one we're ready for the opening tip it will be bishop and to me at center court throws will i will give you the full middle six league standings a little bit later in the broadcast we have  in the rebound down by  low to me kicks it back out friday on the drive has to pass on the baseline this will be murphy in bounding gets it into pier this is bishop bringing up and he has his pass knocked down by thoughts but he gets it back it's up to pier sixteen to play down low for burlington an easy baskets for matt mccarthy so ten to eight now in the ball it's tipped away from friday and it will go down to burlington six early for murphy burlington's leading scorer in the third scorer in the middle sexily and it's ten to ten under ten and i have to play now three mcavoy test drive gets tripped it'll be a foul on number twenty it looks like pierce but i was just looking at the score sheet both jenkins and murphy who you said earlier was the they're leading scorn next four and seven this year so technically they can still has a nice move underneath by to me technically they can still make the tournaments but they would have to win a lot of their last games  minute fourteen to twelve burlington with nine thirty to play and right down together and so hard on the baseline jumper he's got six early but burlington showing that they want to run a and jenkins tries to save it hits a belmont water boy in the process  very successful and to tell us that a good office rebound can get the put back so hudson pulls up on the baseline can't get it and it's still sixteen to twelve belmont with eight o five to play now in the first half this is pierce now murphy goes down on to the baseline from bishop bishop guarded by looks like to me can't get the lay up rebound pulled down by pierce drives and jenkins gets it over to mccarthy down on the baseline murphy pulls up and hits murphy has eight in the first seven eight and a half minutes of the game and that pass was a little too high a little too far friends and ellison hits off his knee was out of bounds and pearlington will get the ball coach lines once a timeout will take this one with them it's sixteen fourteen come up with seven twenty to play will be right back sorry we're back after the timeout lou we're going to go through the middlesex league standings right now we have a chance belmont on top and nineteen two in the league ten in two overall woodburne one game behind them nine and three in the league or it's actually half a game behind them at night in three ten overall winchester eight in four ten and four overall those three teams likely to make the tournaments reading seven and four in league eight and five overall watertown is and wakefield are both six and six in league lexington five and six burlington as we said pass picked off by jenkins takes the angle and lays in an easy basket more tight first through the game for jenkins right back down at the other end crotty takes it up takes it right to the hoop and gets in easy to eighteen to sixteen with six thirty five play in the first half burlington comes away with it in the past by mccarthy is too high for ray murphy and the don't be a turnover checking into the game now is frank much easy for burlington a six foot junior was number twenty one and number thirty one matt sweetland also  of course so to me has a one inch advantage there and now he will shoot a free throw to try to make it a five point  the baseline there and got foam on his way to the hoop so he'll shoot two free throws two minutes and twenty seconds off in the first half of his twenty eight twenty four lead for belmont it's been close the whole way i was on murphy that's his second course murphy has a i don't know if it's his brother i've heard it might be his brother matt murphy is five ten software number fifteen for the red doubles mcevoy gets the first his third point in the first and it's a five point lead for obama here seven bishop now checks back in it looks like he's wearing a hand brace for bishop number twelve pass look like it to last had a shot of picking that one off now bishop on the wing goes up top too much easy murphy wants a three it's well short rebounds cutting rebounds and third chance point for the red devils mission his fourth of the first half and it's thirty three twenty eight with now ten seconds of the half nine eight seven passes tipped a way and it is going to be held on call with three seconds left on the positive burlington's play some good defense but once also looks good at times now now we have a rumor that half time we're going to have a tug of war at center court will we hope that's true if it is we will bring it to you either way both eithe all right we're back to start the second half in games with chris star chris we mention that in the pre game that rebounding could be a key in this game delmon little overmatched on the boards how has that been played hasn't played out so far well even though bell is with the winning the score wise they're getting destroyed when it comes to rebounding bell and has a problem every game they're all undersized and they've done a good job of keeping up with out schemes with second chance points and they're winning and that's the seven or eight seconds before  goes back to society and you can hit the three rebound by jenkins now murphy pulls up and gets in he has fifteen and a little time out to fix the net fisher takes care of that problem and to me gets it into my karate too far for number ten ray murphy the turnover there for matt pearson belmont to get the ball back chance to go up by double digits for the first time tonight gets into cruddy works off kind of a screen and has it taken away but jenkins threw it up and threw it right to ross phillips so bum retains possession and gets a new thirty five thirty second clock that's only for folks but he's looked good lately that basket makes a forty five thirty five eleven fifty to play time out we'll take this one with  from that was pierce right behind him piers never saw it coming  that was a great play and we might see seriously serious turning point happening in this game it's now a twelve point lead to levon thirty four to play and we have a technical foul on pearlington the call was on pier credit goes to phillips in the corner this is to me the baseline goes back out to phillips working off the screen goes over to cruddy sixteen on the shot clock  fifty one to thirty five zero and that's a great play by my credit to tip it away no new shot clock for burlington and the devils have to reset their o now going on for mercy basket no foul so that's the first two in a while and it'll come with a free throw for burlington that's three on phillips so he still has two more to give with ten forty one to play but he's getting towards that area where coach lines might have to sit  having a big game fourteen points and it's fifty three to thirty eight on back to a fifteen point lead approaching the ten minute mark in the in the second half because he took it on himself couldn't get it off and to rebound by jenkins goes back up no shot fowle called on look like e always listen this is junior but we're pretty sure he's a senior think so to five ten shooting guard and they haven't listed as a second year  game was belmont had more turnovers than burlington in the first half that game and then burlington really watched the game in the second half by turning the ball over more than belmont the sabean easy lay up for waters and it is a fifty seven to forty game delmon up by seventeen with nine hundred fifteen to play this will be the second steen that belmont will complete a season sweep of we mention the winner at winchester to complete the two game to game season sweep of the  in dramatic fashion this this isn't sweep looks like a little like it'll be a little bit less dramatic than that but i think the belmont team will take that in time they can get it fifty nine to forty eight forty nine to play downlow this is waters kicks it like shooting plays playing point guard tonight has made a lot of point guard place and it really impressed me and and that's you know if those are college coaches then you know it might be good right down at the other end wearing a yellow ribbon with their uniforms on the day of this game that yellow ribbon is a sign of good luck to their coach's wife coach john sullivan not coaching them tonight against burlington he is with his wife who is who is ill team six man but and plays well when he's in but doesn't this solution or a lot of points a five is a five is good for him he's made a serious contribution in this game and all of that in the second half so really contributing to belmont's pulling away now and by twenty four  travel and i said that he should he should know that rule by now that once you're on the ground with the ball you can't get up and you have to pass it off well turns out he actually he maintains he was never on the ground nice pass easy basket for america where he now leads  team with seventy and so he says he actually has his knees never touched the ground and he never really left his feet so my apologies to prying on that one point game and here comes my christianson saying we're actually a six forty two to play good for good for prom and i'm really good that they can get these these players in and there's nothing i like as a player who spent two years on the on the bench at the with the version of football team there's nothing i like more than garbage time when you can get your players into the game and and get everyone some action that was always my favorite time and who knows can't convert on the on the league they had already clinched finishing at least five hundred with six league games left to play now they will finish above five hundred in league four who for more years than i can remember that's been dominance thing and they were moved to eleven into overall pearlington mounting will be murphy this is matt murphy who may or may not be related to to ray murphy his shows near ball and don't comes with the rebound teleco over to patty oh and jenkins throws it away saves by murphy but telecom comes up with it and they call a travel on call on teleco and here comes crowd favorite rudy thomas so are we talking about motivation for belmont and i guess they either they came out motivated or they don't need to be burlington because you know when this game they're up now twenty seven thomas goes down mo for christensen puts up can't get a christianson nice rebound but to travel as he hit the floor and slid this is interesting burlington checking starter evan bishop back into the game i hope they don't think they're going to make a twenty seven point one in three minutes and twenty two seconds but burlington rather not going to their bench quite so fast this is matt murphy who is not not a garbage time player he sees  sees some action for the red devils foul on the pass down to  three o four to play and it's still seventy three to fifty six belmont nine point game math isn't my strong suit but it's twenty nine and i can tell you that in two minutes twenty five seconds he just can't make up twenty one points to wonder what we're still doing here well you know what we can leave early seventy six to fifty belmont and thomas at the wind much to the delight of the crowd of seniors here and thomas free throws spins out and the fans don't like that and that gets you from the crowd and another fell slow in up the action in garbage time here to a five to play still seventy six fifty this one's called on murphy that's four on him and mike christian sen is going to get to shoot some free throws and that christiansen probably i vaguely remember that profits rebound on his own fall shot by matt murphy can't get the follow up jenkins can't get the third one twenty to play still seventy six to fifty dominant top typically gets the two and the crowd didn't share that for anyone else's basket in this game murphy down at the other and can't get it  the big names for for so for several teams i can remember the kid's name from watertown yeah they gave up they gave up almost his average in the first half and then held him almost scoreless in the second half same thing with the kid four three two one out of bounds and they're not going to bring that one back in this game is over we'll be back to wrap this one up in the post game show has some stats for you and we'll talk about what's coming up for the marauders maybe an interview for final score from belmont when a memorial field house well money to burlington fifty three and started fastbreak again and it really helped us push me out yeah i noticed the fest replayed like a huge role in the second half in the in the win was it a conscious decision to coach lie and say we're going to run some fast break the second half or we're things just developing and  eighteen points sixty s and he was six for six and free throws so he easily had won the best games his career and also in points mcavoy had fourteen and he was nine out of ten underneath the we're back to wrap this thing up from bender from belmont when a memorial field house coming up for the murders they go to reading this coming friday that would be january twenty ninth next home game is stone and that would be on february second i want to say so stone of course own own thirteen reading's having some trouble in league of course they do have one of the league's leading scorers no i like they don't eighty two to fifty three