Cold shooting hinders 'Stangs against GW

They were game and they competed.

Problem was, though, they couldn’t make a shot when they needed one.

So Mullen went down at home on Wednesday night to George Washington 65-52 in nonleague to drop to 1-3.

“We have to make that basket when we need it,” Mustangs head coach Bob Caton said.

The rims were unkind to Mullen at its Hutchison Fieldhouse and it lasted throughout the balance of the game.

It began in the first quarter, when the Mustangs suffered their first scoring drought before rallying to take a 13-11 lead through the first 8 minutes. But a second one occurred as the Pats went on a 14-2 run, grabbed a 30-20 lead and never looked back.

“We needed to make a shot and take better care of the ball,” Caton said.

As it was, junior Brayden Carter was Mullen’s lone bright spot from an offensive scoring standpoint. He scored all of Mullen’s seven points in the second quarter and nine of his team’s 10 in the third. He finished with 28 points. Only four others scored, topped by Diallo Thompson and Josh Lopez, who each scored eight points.

The GW lead crested at 59-36 before the Mustangs made it respectable.

Eleven players scored for the Patriots and Caton recognized their athletic ability that includes reserve Fred Edmonds Jr., son of former GW and University of Colorado star Fred Edmonds, a teammate at both stops with Denver legend Chauncey Billups.

The Mustangs will be at it again on Saturday, 5 p.m., at The Hutch against another Denver Prep league team, Abraham Lincoln.

 

George Washington – McPhee 6 5-5 18, Agyemang 2 0-0 4, Brown 0 0-0 0, J. Johnson 5 1-1 13, K. Johnson 5 0-0 10, A. Thompson 1 0-0 2, Hammons 2 0-1 5, Edmonds 1 1-4 3, Ali 1 0-0 2, K. Thompson 1 0-0 2, Sessoms 0 0-0 0, Watterson 1 1-2 3, Kouyate 1 0-0 3. Totals 26 8-13 65.

Mullen – Thompson 3 0-0 8, Lopez 2 2-4 8, Bond 0 0-0 0, Carter 10 8-9 28, Berg 0 0-0 0, Dominguez 2 0-0 6, Heffern 1 0-0 2, Pohs 0 0-0 0. Totals 18 10-13 52.

3-pt. goals – J. Johnson 2, Hammons, Kouyate, McPhee; Dominguez 2, Lopez 2, Thompson 2.