South Lyon gets first win
South Lyon boys basketball gets first win.
South Lyon gets first win South Lyon boys basketball gets first win. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/sports/high-school/south-lyon/2015/01/06/south-lyon-gets-first-win-fowlerville/21330449/
Jeff Theisen, Published 12:02 a.m. ET Jan. 8, 2015 | Updated 7:15 a.m. ET Jan. 8, 2015
South Lyon's Jaelon Neer (left) sets up a play against West Bloomfield.(Photo: Marty Budner)
South Lyon boys basketball closed out the 2014 portion of its schedule in dramatic fashion with its first win of the season.
The Lions took part in a tournament in Chelsea, starting with a loss to Pinckney before beating Fowlerville, 44-43.
The drama came with Fowlerville holding a two-point lead with 10 seconds to play. Lions senior Luke Wolfe launched a corner 3-pointer and knocked it down for just the second lead of the night for South Lyon.
Fowlerville got off the final shot, but it was off the mark as the Lions finally got to celebrate a win.
Wolf finished with 11 points, followed by nine from senior Joe Newman and eight from senior Jaelon Neer.
Connor Collins led all scorers with 18 points for Fowlerville.
In the first game of the tournament, Pinckney held off South Lyon for a 44-36 victory.
Neer led with 10 points, followed by eight from Newman.
Jacob Scmitter led Pinckney with nine points.
"We made some progress in the turnover department and were a little bit better defensively in the holiday tournament, but there is still a lot of work to be done to get our team where we need to be," Lions coach Doug Host said. "Again, in these games we sent opponents to the line unnecessarily, leaving us with 17 fewer free-throw attempts than Pinckney and 19 fewer free-throw attempts than Fowlerville. Those are numbers that are going to be tough to overcome all season long, regardless of the opponent, and they're numbers that are indicative of a number of issues, undisciplined fouls, not moving our feet or being in the right places defensively, gambling and not playing strong with the ball at the offensive end.
"The good news is all those issues are correctable, but the bad news is all those issues are correctable and we still haven't learned to correct them roughly a third of the way in to the season."
South Lyon enters 2015 at 1-5. The Lions open Central Division play with a trip Friday to Livonia Stevenson.
jtheisen@gannett.com
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