Combs brothers spur Kissimmee Osceola

Brothers Christian Combs and Sean Combs stole the show on Saturday afternoon in Kissimmee Osceola’s 59-57 win over Oviedo.

The two brothers combined for 32 points as Christian, a senior, scored 20 points, making 9 shots from the field, including two 3-pointers, and received player-of-thegame honors.

Sean, a junior, scored 12, all from beyond the arc, to help the Kowboys (15-4) down the Lions (15-4) in the Kalyn High Master’s Classic at The Master’s Academy.

“Those guys — one’s in 12th, one’s in 11th — they’ve been playing together for so long,” Osceola coach Steve Mason said. “Great chemistry and they just know the game of basketball. When they become adults, they can become coaches; they have such a good mind for the game.”

After the Kowboys began the game on a 10-2 run, both teams remained neck-and-neck for most of the game, with neither able to fully pull away. With the game knotted at 57, junior Christopher Rios hit a go-ahead layup, his first basket of the game, to send the Kowboys to victory.

With the FHSAA implementing a shot clock in the future, the Kalyn High Master’s Classic featured a 35-second shot clock on an experimental basis.

Only one shot-clock violation occurred in the game, in the fourth quarter against the Lions.

“When we had a lead with a minute-something left, I was definitely planning to run a lot of offense and take time off the clock, but we weren’t able to because of the shot clock,” Mason said.

Dawson Barr, a 6-foot-4 junior, led the Lions offense with 18 points.

He made six shots from inside the arch and two from beyond it, including a buzzer-beater at the end of the third quarter to cut the Kowboys’ lead to 2. Ryan Blount and Alex Harper, both sophomores, added 11 points each.