SANTA ROSA — Roseland Prep pulled away in the final two minutes and beat the Kelseyville Knights 49-36 in a non-league varsity boys” basketball game on Tuesday in Santa Rosa.
It wasn”t quite the same Roseland Prep team that the Knights beat 69-56 on Friday in the consolation round of the Stokes Tournament at Kelseyville. Roseland Prep has added three players since then (they were previously ineligible).
Roseland Prep”s center, one of the three players now eligible, helped shut out Kelseyville”s Steven Grossner.
“Grossner just had a tough night against their big kid,” Kelseyville coach Scott Conrad said.
Roseland Prep took a 31-26 lead into the fourth quarter and it was a four-point game with two minutes remaining.
“We stopped defensive rebounding in the last four minutes and that was the difference in the game,” Conrad said.
And it didn”t help that Roseland Prep was perfect from the free-throw line in the final period, according to Conrad.
“We were a bit sluggish ? we had heavy legs,” Conrad said. “Our shots were short, some of them ridiculously short.”
But the effort was there, according to the Kelseyville coach.
“The kids played hard and grinded through some things,” he said.
Mike Davis led the Knights (2-3) with 10 points, Nick Schaefer added eight and Mike Allen, Mike Duman and Peter Wotherspoon all had six points to round out Kelseyville”s scoring. Duman pulled down a team-best seven rebounds while Wotherspoon and Davis had four steals apiece.
Kelseyville plays Colusa at 7 p.m. Thursday in the first round of the Live Oak Tournament, which runs through Saturday.
