Gloucester Bees\’ fall to 7-4

Gloucester vs Sterling 5th and 6th Grade Boys
By Jareth Schultz

Traveling Tuesday to Magnolia through ice and snow, the Fifth and Sixth grade Gloucester City Boys Team (7-3) entered the home of Sterling (2-7). Two weeks ago Gloucester beat the same Sterling team but, Gloucester playing for the third time in four days without point Steven Jackson (home sick) and the injured Austin Darrow (wrist surgery) entered play needing a win to stay in the bid for the playoffs.

The game started as Gloucester\’s Stefano Okoro won the opening jump. Gloucester goes on a early 5-0 run with Ikoro and Chris Walmsley each scoring, before Sterling makes and amazing recovery by outsourcing the locals 11-2. The First quarter ended with Gloucester leading 11-7.

As the Second quarter started Gloucester\’s already injured Darrow is knocked to the floor. To show he was not to be denied his playing time, Darrow banged his hand to the floor to show who was the boss and continued to play while injured.

With a struggling Okoro on the bench Sterling takes a halftime lead of 35-21.

Sterling opens the Second half with several missed foul shots. Sterling is a quality team and their record does not reflect it. They continued their onslaught of Gloucester.

Throughout the Third quarter, Gloucester attempts to stay with Sterling. But the players on Sterling were impressive with their athletic moves. As a result Sterling kept the Bee\’s defense on its heals as they continue to draw fouls. If only Sterling could teach the Gloucester players some of these fancy moves.

After more foul shots Sterling ends the Third quarter leading 50-30.

As the Fourth quarter starts Gloucester puts pressure on the ball and scores a quick 4 points. After a Sterling time-out both teams battle back and forth trading baskets. After a short time out for a Sterling player to tie his shoes the play continues. Each time Gloucester appears to be making a run at Sterling their opponent comes back an scores.

Trailing by 18 points Gloucester calls it\’s third timeout of the game. Gloucester immediately missed three straight foul shots. As the time winds down to two minutes Gloucester trails 60-42. Gloucester again misses four foul shots as the clock ticks to 0:00 and loses the game 64-46.