Miller went on a 12-0 run in the first two minutes of the second quarter, then held Aberdeen Roncalli to just four fourth-quarter points en route to a 47-39 boys basketball victory Tuesday night at the Roncalli Gym.
“We had a slippage in the second quarter, as far as defense goes,” said Roncalli coach Dan Gallagher. “We gave up 19 points, and fourth quarter, we just didn’t put the ball in the basket. Combine those two, and it definitely hurt us. Our guys played extremely hard, we just weren’t able to get shots to fall.”
It wasn’t for lack of execution, however. The Cavaliers created open looks down the stretch, but fell victim to what, at times, seemed like the unlucky bounce.
“We had some that went halfway down and came back out,” Gallagher said. “If we get some of those to fall, it’s going to be a different story. But it is what it is. We’ve got to go back to the drawing board and see what it is we did really well in that third quarter to score 15 poi
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