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State Basketball Championship Goes Into Overtime: Cougars Versus Gators
The Quince Orchard Cougars played the Perry Hall Gators Saturday in the class 4A boys basketball championship.
COLLEGE PARK, MD — The Quince Orchard Cougars fell just shy of winning the team's first state basketball title Saturday, defeated in overtime by the Perry Hall Gators.
The class 4A boys basketball championship packed the Xfinity Center, with fans hungry for the crown that neither team had ever won in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA).
The 8 p.m. game went into overtime as the Gators tied the Cougars, 48-48, at the end of the fourth quarter.
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Bu the Gators snapped away the win, 59-56.
Tied up 46 all @Hall_Pride vs #QuinceOrchard 2:48 remaining Class 4A Final #HoopSeason pic.twitter.com/9rwawVHFHy
— SportsMajors (@SportsMajors) March 12, 2017
See pics and videos from the game here.
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Great season for QO Boys Basketball falling in OT to Perry Hall 59-56 in 4AState Finals. @mymcmedia
— Phil Fabrizio (@Photoloaf) March 12, 2017
ITS ELECTRIC IN HERE #QO4State
— The Town Courier (@TownCourier) March 12, 2017
It was the second close game for the Cougars this week.
To get to the state finals, Quince Orchard beat the previously undefeated Wise Pumas, 55-52, in a matchup that The Washington Post reported was a nail-biter of a playoff.
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