Boys’ Basketball
Sidney 50, Oxford 45
OXFORD – Sidney survived the biggest threat to its unbeaten Midstate Athletic Conference record making two big plays in the final 40 seconds to defeat Oxford Tuesday night.
Coming out of a timeout, forward Joe Matzel hit guard Billy Kozak with a bounce pass for a back-door layup giving Sidney the lead, 46-45 with 38 seconds left. After another timeout, Sidney senior Damian Zimmer picked up a steal out of  full-court press, and dropped in a layup for the three-point lead.
Oxford scrambled for three three-point attempts on its final possession – none of them particularly close to going in. Matzel tacked on a pair of insurance free throws for the final margin.
“I was happy with everything except the final outcome,” said Oxford coach Tim Davis. “We’ve improved throughout the season, and with a couple more adjustments, we can stay right there with the best teams in our league.”
Oxford trailed by as many as 11 in the third quarter as a Matzel layup made it 36-25 midway through the period. The Blackhawks trimmed that margin back to four by the end of the quarter as Paul Wonka made a driving layup, and Cameron Heggie canned a pull-up jumper with less than 10 seconds left.
Sidney was held without a field goal the first six minutes of the fourth, and Andrew Golden’s three-point play gave Oxford its only lead of the second half, 45-44.
Golden had 18 for Oxford and Heggie netted 12.
Oxford: Matt Moore, 1 0-0-2; Cameron Heggie, 6 0-0-12; Daniel Lawton, 0; Jeff Lawton, 0; Andrew Golden, 7 2-3-18; Paul Wonka, 4 0-0-8; Kevin Davis, 2 0-0-5; Jake McConnell, 0. Totals: 20 2-3-45.
Sidney: Hunter Sowersby, 5 1-1-11, Damian Zimmer, 7 0-2-14; Mike Ward, 0, Bill Kozak, 4 0-0-10, Mike Cruz, 0, Austin McCarroll, 0, Joe Matzel, 5 2-2-12; Brandon Walters, 1 0-0-3. Totals: 22 3-5-50.
Sidn. 9 21 12 8–50
Oxfd. 16 7 15 7–45
Fouled out: none. Three-point goals: (O) Golden 2, Davis, (S) Kozak 2, Walters. JV: Sidney won 42-31. Officials: Berg, Dadamio
Morris 75, G-MU 27
COPES CORNERS – State-ranked Morris ran wild against G-MU Tuesday night in cruising to a 48-point victory.
Levi Decker scored 21 points and Mike DeLuca 18 for the Mustangs, who have just one loss on the season. “They’re a very solid team, and deserving of where they are ranked,” said G-MU coach Rick Mohrein of Morris. “They’re just a fast team that runs up and down the court well. If you turn it over, they’re going the other way quickly.”
G-MU plays at Laurens Friday.
Morris: Kerry Smith, 2 1-2-5; Levi Decker, 7 6-7-21; T.J. Doyle, 0; Mike DeLuca, 7 4-4-18; Aidan Staib, 1 0-0-2; Andrew Dougherty, 1 1-4-3; Cody Myers, 6 0-0-15; Skylar Maricle, 3 0-0-6;Showers, 0; Brandon Shelly, 1 3-5-5. Totals: 28 15-17-75 .
G-MU: Jason Barrows, 1 2-2-4; David Laman, 0 1-2-1; Jesse Theodore, 0; Austin Burnside, 3 0-0-7 ; Brandon Lindenthaler, 0; Tim French, 3 0-0-8; Nate Fuller, 2 3-5-7; Rian West, 0; Justin Cole, 0; Nate Whitehill, 0. Totals: 9 6-9-27.
Moris 24 19 18 14–75
GMU 9 10 4 4–27
Fouled out: none. Three-point goals: (M) Burnside, French 2, (M) Decker, Myers 3. JV: Morris won.
Unadilla Valley 73, Bainbridge-Guilford 59
NEW BERLIN – Unadilla Valley’s Justin Hofer scored a season-high 36 points to outduel Bainbridge-Guilford’s Austin Bauerle in Tuesday’s win for the Storm.
Hofer connected on five three-pointers, and the Storm used a hot start from the field to create a 23-7 lead after one period. “We were taking good shots and moving the ball around better,” said UV coach Matt Osborne. “Bainbridge-Guilford did a good job shooting the ball in the second half, and Bauerle is a tough matchup.”
