Cardinals win in final seconds

MEDICAL LAKE — It’s been said it’s the sweaty, tired men in the arena that count.

And you’d have experienced that first-hand if you had been in the Medical Lake gym on Thursday night, Dec. 12, to watch the Cardinal boys basketball team’s amazing 15-point comeback thriller that ended with Ashton Hamilton-Becker’s clutch 3-pointer in the final seconds of the game that notched the 58-56 Cardinal win.

The win, according to head coach Jordan Starr, was in part due to a team double-scouting effort of the Dec. 10 Northeast 2B North Dragons (4-2) 65-57 win over the 3-2 Northeast A Freeman Scotties.

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