MOBRIDGE – Aberdeen Roncalli erased all but one point of what was a 16-point deficit Tuesday night, but couldn’t quite propel itself into the lead, falling just short at Mobridge-Pollock 50-45 in a non-conference girls’ basketball contest.
“I don’t think we could have scripted a worse start to a game than what we got into,” said Cavaliers' coach Derek Larson.
Mobridge-Pollock, now 4-0 on the season, raced out to a double-digit lead before the visiting Cavaliers had hit their second field goal of the night, putting Roncalli in catch-up mode early.
“We just could not get a shot to fall early,” Larson said. “They hit a ton of shots in the first half, and we didn’t help ourselves out with missed bunnies, some turnovers and not guarding our girl in the full court.”
Roncalli scratched the deficit to 11 points by halftime, then put together a third-quarter run that gave the Cavaliers a chance at the lead with under two minutes to play in the quarter. Cl
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