Down 13-0, final 5-minute push propels FHS boys at L-City
LENOIR CITY — Failing to score a point for the game’s first 5 minutes, 40 seconds, and unable to connect on a field goal for the first 6 minutes, 20 seconds, Farragut’s boys basketball team had a high climb against Lenoir City at LCHS Friday night, Dec. 13.
Finally catching — and passing — the Panthers when senior standout wing/post Dom VanAcker nailed a three-point jumper with 5:03 left in regulation, Farragut had its first lead of the game at 44-43.
From there, the Admirals went on a 10-0 run to lead 54-43 on VanAcker’s rebound basket at the 2:50 mark of the final period, which pretty much salted away this comeback victory, 58-47.
Farragut trailed 13-0 in the first quarter against the Panthers, who fell to 1-4 entering this week.
“A very horrible start,” said VanAcker, who scored a game-high 17 points in the victory as Farragut improved its overall record to 7-3 entering this week.
“We really came out soft, we really had no energy,” he added. “But that three (to finally go ahead) really started it.”
“At halftime (trailing 33-28) we were down on ourselves and our coach (J.P. Burris) was on us because we weren’t playing well,” said Parker Lane, FHS standout junior point guard who scored 14 points.
“But we’re a team — this year more than last (year) — and we’re a family, and when bad things happen we come together,” he added.
“We were able to stick together and pull it off at the end.”
Britton Lewis, Admirals senior post, added 12 points while junior guard Dan Lanning scored nine.
Hunter Click’s 11 points led Lenoir City, while Panthers teammates Matthew Deacon and Peter Shepard each scored eight.
