Oliver Ames Boy's Basketball Finishes Best Season in Nearly 20 Years

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The Oliver Ames boy’s basketball team finished the 2014-2015 season with the best outcome in about 20 years.

The last time the Tigers made it to the Division 2 South Boy’s basketball title game was back in the late ‘90s, said head coach Don Byron.

“It’s been about 20 years since Oliver Ames has been in this game,” he said. “As difficult as it was, we played very well.”

The team finished their season on Saturday, March 7 when they lost to Bishop Feehan in the Division 2 South boys’ basketball title game at Brockton High School.

After plenty of lead changes between the two evenly matched teams, Bishop Feehan came out victorious and defeated Oliver Ames 57-53.

Byron is still happy with how his team played this season even though they came up short in the championship.

The team won the Hockomock League Davenport Division title, ended the regular season with a record of 17-3 and had an overall record of 20-4.

Byron credits this season’s success to the eight seniors on the team. The team set a goal of making it to the championship and they achieved it. “They were the ones who set the goals here and accomplished so many of them along the way,” he said.

Two seniors were honored as Hockomock League All Stars and one was given Honorable Mention.

Oliver Ames Boy’s Basketball Seniors:

• Ryan Carney— Hockomock League All Star
• Nolan Edwards
• Brendan Flynn
• Rael Handy— Hockomock League All Star
• Anthony Jean
• Chris Kyne— Hockomock League Honorable Mention, Captain
• Sam Kelley
• Brendan Welch— Captain

Byron said the season ended on a good note despite not advancing any further. “You realize how hard it was to get to where we did,” he said.

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