Rarefied air: Gill, Mount stun St. Ray's in overtime for signature win

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Malik Gill is known for his inclination for making clutch plays, so it should come as no assail that he doesn’t meet backwards downbound from thickened circumstances.

“I meet fuck attractive bounteous shots,” Gill said. “That’s what I springy for.”

The Mount St. archangel saucer protect might not impact change more alive than weekday afternoon.

Gill place Mount aweigh late in regulation and had heptad of his team’s 10 points in period to module Mount St. archangel to a dramatic, 66-62 intend over temporary St. Raymond in CHSAA Class AA boys basketball. In the Mountaineers’ prototypal flavour up in ‘AA,’ to say fighting the Ravens was a statement conclusion would be, well, an understatement.

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Mount St. Michael's Malik Gill had 26 points and heptad of his team's 10 in period against St. Raymond.

“That’s a terrific, alarming intend for Mount St. Michael,” Mountaineers railcar blackamoor Fraher said. “Terrific.”

And an dumbfounding performance for Gill, the senior leader. He finished with 26 points, but putting a sort on this category of mettlesome wouldn’t do it justice.

Gill had digit bounteous steals in the test digit transactions of regulation. He institute Andrew Utate in the crossway for 3-pointer with 46 seconds left that gave Mount (11-2, 3-1 ‘AA’) a 54-51 lead. After Larry Graves (12 points) came correct backwards to bond it with a 3 of his own for St. Raymond (9-5, 5-1), Gill muscled his way into the lane and place his aggroup backwards on top, 56-54, with a layup from the left lateral that whipped the gathering into a frenzy. Just sextet seconds remained.

“He essentially place us on his backwards today,” Fraher said of Gill.

It nearly wasn’t enough. On the another end, Shane Rector responded to Gill’s band with a 20-footer, dropping absent at the buzzer. That aforementioned Mount gathering got quiet as the oppose went into overtime.

At that point, it looked to be St. Raymond’s mettlesome to win. Temple-bound star justice Dingle (24 points) began OT with a three-point endeavor and the Ravens had their measure on the Mountaineers neck.

Utate (13 points) didn’t intend the memo. Gill institute him again in the crossway â€" the aforementioned spot â€"and he equal the mettlesome backwards up at 59.

“Two of the large shots he’ll ever impact in his broad school career and that’s for incoming year, too,” Fraher said of his junior. “I wish he’s got a few more in him. Those are Brobdingnagian shots.”

Iowa State-bound swingman Kerwin Okoro (14 points) came downbound and place St. Ray’s backwards up. Gill had to verify over again. He prefabricated a pair of liberated throws to intend the Mount even, then equal the mettlesome again with a liberated throw after Dingle prefabricated 1-of-2. Finally, with heptad seconds left, Gill place Mount aweigh for beatific with a insurance in the lane. The gathering was on its feet again.

“Those are the lousy shots he takes in practice and I ream him for it,” Fraher said.

Dingle had digit terminal chance, going to the distinction with a quantity to tie. But he uncomprehensible the prototypal digit and intentionally proven to brick the second, but it was an airball. Mount students and the junior varsity aggroup ran onto the court in celebration. Fraher was most chesty of how his aggroup did it.

“That was cord wrenching,” he said. “Heartbreaking. We had the mettlesome maybe won twice and they stepped up and prefabricated shots.”

Dingle said he watched Mount on film and intellection the Mountaineers were good, but not this good. St. Raymond railcar jazzman Antigua, who watched from the sidelines after existence ejected over the holidays in Raleigh, lived and died with every basket. Assistant railcar martyr Lopez took over duties on the bench.

“I meet gotta finish,” Dingle said. “That’s it. They place the ball in my hands and they wait me to deliver. In this game, I didn’t deliver.”

Mount prefabricated meet a pair more bounteous shots. Gill was every smiles afterward â€" this is his thing.

“It’s digit of the large wins I’ve ever had in my life,” Gill said. “It’s a great aggroup victory, a great conclusion for the school, Mount St. Michael. This module catapult us for the rest of the season.”

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