Rams golden at Green and Gold
As tournaments hosts, the LCI Rams are simply golden.
The senior varsity boys basketball team has the medals to prove it following a 73-67 win over the Medicine Hat Mohawks in the championship game Saturday night at LCI.
Isaiah Bagnah led the Rams with 22 points and Parks Hirsche added 16 as LCI capped off a 3-0 weekend on their way to this year’s title.
Carter Johnson also hit double digits for the Rams with 10 points.
Eidan Jonker led Medicine Hat with 20 points and Bailey Gosse added 12.
The Rams defeated the Calgary Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs 87-79 in the semifinal, while the Mohawks edged the Raymond Comets 96-95 in the other semifinal.
Three Comets players hit the 20-point mark in the semifinal as Brady Bains led Raymond with 26 points and Shae Gibb had 22. Jeter Heggie scored 20 points in the close loss and Liam Davison chipped in with 10.
For the Mohawks, Ethan Egert led the way with 25 points and Jonker scored 20. Fred Kabore put up 17 points and Gosse had 15.
In the bronze medal game, Calgary Sir Winston Churchill got past the Raymond Comets 81-78.
Gibb topped the Comets with 25 points, Bains drained 15 and Heggie had 13.
Toks Ajayi had 15 points for Sir Winston Churchill.
In the consolation final, the Edmonton St. Francis Xavier Rams defeated the Calgary Crescent Height Cowboys 80-50.
The Rams downed the Edmonton Archbishop O’Leary Spartans 76-69 in the consolation semifinal. The Cowboys downed the Catholic Central Cougars 92-84 in the other consolation semifinal.
In the seventh and eighth place game, the Spartans defeated the Cougars 81-55.
Will Hughes had 19 points for the Cougars and Daniel Marcic had 15.
Wyatt Delorme led the Spartans with 18 points.
The tournament all stars — as voted on by coaches and tournament staff — were Christian Liwanag (Crescent Height Cowboys), Gibb (Raymond Comets), Ajayi (Calgary Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs), Egart (Medicine Hat High) and Zach Jacobs (LCI Rams).
Bagnah was voted as the tournament Most Valuable Player.