Varsity Boys Debut

Varsity Boy's Debut: Mountain View Christian Academy Tournament

Game 1:

The Frederick Warriors Varsity Boys had an awesome first game! They controlled the tip-off with a dominant tip from Benjamin Carstens to Josiah Carstens and had the first possession of the game against the St. John team from Front Royal. After getting behind during the first half, the Warriors changed up to do a full court press which forced turnovers and allowed the Warriors to close the gap by halftime. The Warriors actually outscored St. John in the second half of the game and led the third quarter 15-10. Early in the fourth quarter, the Warriors tied the game at 31. As the game wound down, the Warriors played very hard and never game up. Josiah scored an exciting 3-pointer with 8 seconds remaining to make the final score 47-42.

The Warriors smiled, played hard, played as a team, and showed Godly character as coach Ron had challenged them. Scoring was very balanced with four of the starters all scoring between 9 and 11 points. Considering that these starters had never played together on a team before, their first game was very impressive. Nick and John each added 2 points. Eight different players on the team had at least one rebound.

Being the first game of the first season, there were some “firsts" which included:

First points scored (2 point layup) – Matt Kelly
First three pointer scored – Jacob Hughes
First foul shot scored – Benjamin Carstens

All in all, this was a very good start to the season with many lessons learned by all of the Varsity Warriors Boys!

Game 2:

 Anyone watching the Frederick Warriors Boys Varsity team and not knowing their history would be surprised to know that this is their very first season. On November 21, they played the team from Mountain View Academy in Winchester, Virginia and kept the game close throughout, even leading the game during the fourth quarter. The Warriors did get many opportunities to shoot, with the Academy players committing 31 total fouls during the game and having 4 of their 9 players fouling out. However, the Warriors were unable to convert many of these fouls into points.

Matt Kelly led all scorers in the game with 17 total points, scoring 13 of those points in the second half. Josiah scored 7 points for the Warriors, 5 of those points at the foul line. Benjamin Carstens, Christopher Leao, and Toby McGrath added to the team’s scoring for a total of 32 points for the Warriors.

 The Mountain View team made some clutch foul shots in the final minute to extend the lead to four points, which the Warriors were unable to overcome. The final score for the game was 36-32.

Benjamin Carstens and Christopher Leao each pulled down 7 rebounds and made 3 blocks to lead all Warriors.

After two games, Matt Kelly leads all scorers on the team with 24 total points and Josiah Carstens has scored 18 points.