Rams charge back
Pablo Gary took the pass, dribbled in towards the bucket and elevated up and over a pair of Lackey Chargers’ defenders for a rim-rattling dunk early in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s contest at McDonough.
Gary’s dunk was worth just two points for the Rams, but gave the hosts their first lead since the early stages of the first quarter. The Rams had trailed by double digits in the third quarter, but outscored Lackey 26-9 over the final 10 minutes of the game to earn a 57-50 Southern Maryland Athletic Conference win.
Lackey (9-8, 7-7) controlled the bulk of the action well into the third period, as guard Dominic Phillips scored 19 first-half points en route to a game-high 24-point effort. But McDonough (11-7, 9-3) tightened up its defensive effort in the second half and slowly chipped away at the lead.
After falling behind 41-31, a Devante Gray bucket triggered a 10-0 McDonough run that knotted the score with 2 minutes 23 seconds remaining in the third. Lackey answered temporarily with the quarter’s final four points, but fell to the Rams’ intensity in the fourth.
McDonough opened the final period with a 9-0 run, holding the Chargers scoreless in the period until a Phillips field goal with 2:54 remaining in the contest.
Marcus Stewart led the Rams with 20 points, while Gray added 15. Davario Barksdale chipped in with another 11, including seven in the decisive final stanza.
McDonough 57, Lackey 50
L 15 22 8 5
M 10 19 12 16
Lackey: Phillips 24, Mason 11, Carroll 4, Martin 3, Williams 3, Powell 2, Whaley 2, Turner 1
McDonough: Stewart 20, D. Gray 15, Barksdale 11, Cheaves 5, Gary 4, Joseph 2
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