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The Foresters had brief leads in both halves, but it was St. Francis that had control most of the way.  The Cougars turned a 10-9 deficit at the 15:08 mark into a 23-15 lead on a Kevin Sindle trey midway through the period.  Huntington cut it to three twice, but couldn’t sustain the momentum either time and headed to the locker room down six at 38-32. 

In the second half, the Foresters made several runs to keep St. Francis in sight, but each time, the Cougars had an answer.  St. Francis led 48-41 with 16:33 left in the half when Huntington finally appeared to find some rhythm at the offensive end.  The Foresters scored nine consecutive points to take a 50-48 lead with 13:16 to go.  Trey Eaton immediately took the lead back with a long ball off an inbounds play.  The Foresters then jumped back in front 52-51 on two charity tosses from Alex Kock, but it was the last time they saw the lead.  The Cougars came back with a 9-1 spurt over the next two minutes to go up 60-53. 

Huntington again rallied back to within one at 64-63 with 5:00 minutes to play, but back-to-back turnovers allowed St. Francis to push the advantage back to five.  The Foresters continued to battle and cut it to two at 72-70 on a jumper by Kyle Ganton with 23 ticks left.  Following a timeout, the Foresters looked to steal the inbounds pass and appeared to knock it out of bounds off a Cougar’s leg, but instead Jared Yoder was whistled for a foul sending Mike Steinau to the line.  Steinau drained both free throws and the Cougars added four more in the final 17 seconds to seal the win. 

Kock topped all scorers in the game with 25 points while Ganton and Yoder finished with 15 and 10 respectively for the Foresters.  Eaton led the Cougars with 21 and Mike Campbell added a double-double with 16 points and 17 rebounds.  St. Francis won the battle of the boards 33-32 and had 11 turnovers to 15 for Huntington.

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