BELLVILLE — The Bellville High School boys basketball team faced off against Royal High School where the Brahmas fought hard all game to send the match into overtime on a buzzer beater, which led to dominating the overtime period for a 72-60 win at Brahmas Gym February 10. “I felt coming in that I just liked our matchup,” said Bellville head boys basketball coach Mason Loiodice.
“I love our big boy and I love our ability to space out and our top two guards, Deacon (Bauerschlag) and Brandon (Ward), are really great off the dribble, so I felt really confident with this matchup and our ability to play disciplined defense. We got in trouble a little bit in the first half with some of our key guys getting in foul trouble and we just had to rally. When our subs came in, I had two sophomores play a lot tonight. To come down the stretch and for Deacon to play with four fouls, Brandon play with four fouls, DJ (Sanders) to play with three fouls for two whole quarters all the way into overtime, just shows how disciplined we can be. Our senior leadership. Ben Schaff coming in and just leading our defense. I just had the feeling when we made that shot, we had the crowd behind us, overtime was gonna be good. We were just able to stay disciplined and finish them off at the free throw line. Super proud of them.”
Brahmas senior guard Brandon Ward logged 33 points and hit a game-tying three in the final seconds of regulation to send the game into overtime. “Just gonna shout out my team,” Ward said. “Just got to play together, you know, we need everybody on the team.”
