Almost every team hits a rough patch at some point in a long season, and St. Aloysius’ boys basketball squad appears to be stuck in theirs.
Walker Werne scored a game-high 19 points, and Christ Covenant raced to a double-digit lead it never relinquished by the end of the first quarter as it beat St. Al 68-30 on Tuesday.
St. Al (10-5, 2-2 MAIS District 3-3A) lost its third game in a row to start the new year.
“We just haven’t played team basketball,” St. Al coach Walter Hallberg said. “We got in a stretch where we won four, five, six games in a row and we were getting twice as many assists as we were turnovers. Now we’re getting no assists. I think we had five assists tonight. We’re getting plenty of turnovers, but we’re getting no assists.”
Carson Gleese led St. Al with 10 points, and Garrod Bunch scored seven. No other St. Al player had more than four.
Werne hit two 3-pointers in the first quarter as Christ Covenant (14-3, 4-0) started the game with a 19-4 run over the first four minutes.
The Warriors hit nine 3-pointers total in the game, while St. Al was 0-for-8 from distance and only 2-for-4 at the foul line. St. Al stabilized things for a while after the lopsided start, but Christ Covenant started the second half with an 11-2 run to fully pull away.
“When you come out and don’t play team basketball against a really good team that plays really good, fundamentally sound basketball, it makes for a long night,” Hallberg said.
St. Al will be back at home Friday at 6 p.m. against Adams County Christian School. With nine games left on the regular-season schedule, Hallberg believes there’s still time to shake off the losing streak and turn things back in the right direction.
“We’re going to try and work it out of them in practice and get back to what we were doing when we were winning games,” he said.
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