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The Dolores Bears (2-8) will look to snap a five-game slide this weekend in back-to-back away games.<\/p>\n
Last Friday, the Bears jumped out to a 17-12 first-quarter lead at Norwood (7-3), but eventually fell 59-54 in a back-and-forth game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a five-point game most of the way,\u201d said head coach Larry Schwartz. \u201cThey would be up a little bit, then we would be up, it just went back-and-forth all night. And then they got the last little spurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
After scoring 32 in the Bears\u2019 previous game, senior Ben Lykins continued his hot streak by dropping in 26 points and grabbing 10 rebounds for a double-double.<\/p>\n
Jalen Balderrama added 12 points and Kyle Biery scored seven.<\/p>\n
Lykins entered Saturday\u2019s contest averaging 26 points per game over the span of his previous three, but on the second night of a back-to-back against Ouray (9-1) on Saturday, fatigue set in.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely had a road-hangover from going to Norwood,\u201d said Schwartz. \u201cI think our boys just looked sluggish and tired today, against one of the top teams in 1A.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CHSAANow Class 1A No. 4 Trojans came out gunning and held a 21-5 lead at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to change our zone,\u201d said Schwartz. \u201cWe were going to come out in a 1-3-1 because we knew they wanted to shoot threes, and they did \u2013 but we weren\u2019t ready to run that 1-3-1.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t practiced it a whole lot, we just tried to pull it out of the bag from last year and it didn\u2019t work,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo we went back to our 2-3 and I think that helped.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the change in defense, the Bears limited the Trojans to just six points to go into half trailing 27-14.<\/p>\n
But Dolores was lethargic to start the second half and Ouray opened the third quarter on a 15-0 run. From there, the Trojans kept their foot on the gas and ran away with a 60-31 win.<\/p>\n
Dolores got scoring from just five players, led by Lykins\u2019 nine points. Justin Purkat added seven points and Balderrama, Tristen Medina and Branden Donaldson each scored five.<\/p>\n
The Bears had five days off to recover after the loss to Ouray, but they have another back-to-back slated for this weekend.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll travel to Ridgway (6-2) on Friday to take on the Demons, and then they play at Nucla (1-5) on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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