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Groton grabs seventh place at A with win over Cyclones

Groton's Gage Sippel finishes off a slam dunk during the seventh place game against Clark-Willow Lake at the Class A State Boys' Basketball Tournament in Sioux Falls on Saturday afternoon. Photo by SDPB
SIOUX FALLS – While Groton’s defense has been locked in all weekend, the Tiger offense got rolling as well on Saturday as the Tigers burst out to an early lead and never looked back en route to a 64-52 win over Clark-Willow Lake in the seventh-place game of the Class A State Boys' Basketball Tournament at the Sanford Premier Center. Groton, which shot the ball at just a 29 percent clip over the first two days of the tournament, came out blazing in Saturday’s finale, putting together a 14-0 run over a 3-minute stretch in the first quarter. That put the Tigers in a position of control, and they never let up.  “They came out today ready to go,” said Groton coach Brian Dolan. That energy translated to a significant advantage in transition offense for the Tigers. “We got kind of lazy with the ball a little bit,” said Clark-Willow Lake coach Jerome Nesheim. “They did a nice job of getting us to turn the ball over two or three times that led to some quick buck

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