Demon boys drop 2OT heartbreaker

FORT MADISON — One of the most exciting, back-and-forth, nail-biting basketball games of the winter happened in Fort Madison on Friday night. Unfortunately, for the fans who made the drive from Washington to Fort Madison, the end result did not fall in the Demons' favor.

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The Washington boys basketball team lost an instant classic, 90-87, and the girls' team dropped a league game 57-45.

The Demon boys led 27-21 after the opening quarter and 46-35 at halftime, but the Bloodhounds would battle back to send the game into overtime after not leading for three-and-a-half quarters.

The two teams went into the first extra period knotted up at 69-69. Both teams put up 11 points in the first overtime, and it was Fort Madison that had enough juice in the second extra period to pull out a big conference win.

Washington's Logan McDole was on fire all night long, scoring 34 points including a key four-point lay in crunch time.

Rajan Roth and Nic Stone both put up 13 points. Kael Williams had 10. Conner Leyden scored seven. Seth Shepard had six, and Drew Conrad finished the night with four points and 10 rebounds.

The Washington boys hit 14 3-pointers in the loss, including nine combined from McDole and Stone. Fort Madison scored the vast majority of its points inside, only taking 10 3-pointers, and making four.

The Demon girls' game was neck-and-neck throughout the first half. Washington and Fort Madison each put up 10 points in the opening quarter and nine in the second to knot things up at 19-19. Fort Madison, however, put up 22 in the third period and never looked back.

The losses brought the Washington boys to 8-11 overall and 4-4 in conference play, mathematically knocking the Demons out of SEC title contention. The Washington girls are also out of the race, sitting at 6-14 overall and 4-4 in conference play.