Second-half struggles plagued the Durango boys basketball team once again as the Demons fell 79-58 Saturday afternoon at Glenwood Springs.
The girls fell Saturday afternoon to Glenwood Springs as well 37-34. No other stats from the girls’ game were available at the time this article was written.
Both the girls and the boys teams fell to 8-10 overall and stayed at 1-3 in the 6A/5A Southwestern League.
The Glenwood Springs girls team improved to 8-11 overall and the boys improved to 9-10 after their wins.
Junior guard Noah Miles had another strong performance with 23 points with five 3-pointers.
Durango boys head coach Alan Batiste said his team did a good job in feeding the hot hand in Miles but that his team can play on a different level if it shares the basketball consistently.
The Demons got ahead 7-0 early but Glenwood Springs made a run and led after one quarter 19-14. Glenwood Springs kept that five-point lead into halftime at 31-26. Then things went South for Durango. It was outscored 26-13 in the third quarter and couldn’t recover.
“They started getting out in transition with these easy layup buckets and we never could recover,” Batiste said. “We went on a little run to cut it back to 15. But again, we just have to come out that second half with a defensive focus versus trying to think that we were ok on offense.”
Glenwood Springs was led by Sim Wenger’s 27 points on 12-18 shooting from the field.
“He's a crafty kid, he does a lot of things in different ways,” Batiste said about Wenger. “He figured out our defense, he started going to the post and he's not even really a post player. He wants to play on the perimeter. But he started going to the post and just started getting easy buckets and then also just got his stuff in transition before we could get our defensive set.”
Both Durango teams return home to play Grand Junction Central on Friday.
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