Marysville Getchell holds off Lynnwood 50-42

Published 10:24 pm Tuesday, December 15, 2015

MARYSVILLE — For the Marysville Getchell boys basketball team, the game was not without flaws. There were some hurried shots, too many fouls, and an offense that sputtered some in the fourth quarter.

But in the end enough things went right for the Chargers as they prevailed against visiting Lynnwood, 50-42, in a Tuesday night non-conference game.

Marysville Getchell took the lead in the opening moments and led throughout, save for a brief tie early in the third period. The big lead was 13 points, 48-35, with just under four minutes to play in the game, though the Royals battled gamely to whittle the final deficit to eight points.

“I thought we played well,” Chargers coach Corby Schuh said. “We moved the ball well … and defensively we tried to slow them down. We saw on film that they were quick and athletic, and that they want to get up and down (the court). We tried to slow them down by playing good, solid defense.”

At times that defense was perhaps too aggressive. Marysville Getchell gave the Royals 16 chances at the free-throw line — all of them in the second half — and they converted 10.

“That was one point of emphasis (in the postgame locker room),” Schuh said. “On defense, we don’t want to just give them free points at the foul line. … You want to keep them in front and force them to hit shots over the top. You don’t want to stop the game.”

Leading the way for the Chargers was junior forward Collin Montez with 18 points. He had four points in a 8-0 scoring burst midway through the third quarter that pushed Marysville Getchell on top to stay.

Still, the Royals never buckled. Despite a double-figure deficit late in the game, Lynnwood extended its defense, got some steals and gave itself a chance down the stretch.

“The kids battled hard,” Royals coach Bobby Hinnenkamp said. “We just didn’t have some shots fall. But defensively the effort and the energy was there. These kids sell out. They go hard on every single possession and I’m really proud of that.

“Credit Getchell on their defense, but today we couldn’t make some shots,” he said.

Both squads have a lot of young players — Marysville Getchell had only two seniors that scored, Lynnwood only one — so these early-season games are important in the development process.

“We have a lot of learning yet to do,” Schuh acknowledged. “But I love this group. They’re really coachable, they play hard, and they have good chemistry, which is cool.”

For his part, Hinnenkamp is seeing much the same thing.

“These are kids that from Day 1 they’ve gone really hard,” he said. “They’ve battled every day in practice and in games we’re competing. I think they’re starting to see and believe that, ‘Hey, we’re in these games.’ Some of them are going to go our way and some of them aren’t, but as long as we compete and put ourselves in position at the end of the game to have a chance that’s what we’re looking for.”

Junior guard Bryce Milne led the Royals in scoring with 14 points.

At Marysville Getchell H.S.

Lynnwood 6 11 12 13 —42

M. Getchell 10 12 17 11 —50

Lynnwood—Ryan Rapanan 7, Alex Macias 3, Eli Edwards 7, Jared Simbulan 0, Alton Hammond 0, Christian Vasquez 1, Tanner Mack 7, Bryce Milne 14, Yoseph Habtemariam 0, Andrew Warren 3. Marysville Getchell—Charles Tait 0, Cody Day 6, Nathan Cardenas 0, Taylor Koellmer 0, Caleb Koellmer 4, Colton Davis 8, David Koncoski 0, Cameron Burns 7, Ian Roskelley 7, Collin Montez 18. Records—Lynnwood 2-3 overall. Marysville Getchell 3-3.