After the month of December, which featured a lot of traveling for The Rock’s boys basketball team, the Lions were excited to return to Gainesville on Tuesday night as they visited the Buchholz Bobcats at Bud Seymour Gymnasium. I’m really thankful for guys like Aren buchholz Golden coaches in Gainesville that give us the opportunity to play in town,” said The Rock head coach Justin Harden. We play so many games on the road.
Even our conference games are two hours or more away. Meanwhile, while Buchholz knew it would have its hands full in hosting the Lions, Bobcats’ head coach Blake Golden welcomed the challenge and hoped it would send a message. The purpose of scheduling The Rock was, to be honest and tell you the truth, to let teams in the city know that we aren’t afraid to play anybody,” Golden said. We’ll play anybody who wants to play.
By the final whistle on Tuesday night, the Lions had ran off with a 83-42 win over the Bobcats. Despite not scoring a field goal in the opening 5:30 of the game and falling behind 9-2 at one point, Buchholz maintained high energy and played aggressive to escape the first quarter with a 13-13 stalemate. I thought they were really aggressive coming out,” Harden said of the Bobcats. They were driving the ball to the basket like they weren’t afraid, which is great. And I think our guys took the opportunity for granted.