Team 3 – 57
Team 1 – 53
Indianapolis – Team 3 advanced to the PFOL Finals on Wednesday by beating Team 1, 57-53. This will be Richie Smith’s 4th trip to the Finals and Eric Flatt’s 1st. Richie Smith is looking for a league high 3rd Championship ring.
Game 3 was an instant classic as both team played extremely hard. There were plenty of hard fouls and tempers were high. Team 3 took a 30-24 lead into halftime but quickly lost that lead as Team 1 rattled off a 13-6 run to start the 2nd half. Chris Lemay who scored 17 points helped Team 3 regain some composure as he knocked down back to back 3’s to put his team back up 43-38. Team 1 wouldn’t go away though as they ran off another quick 6 points to take a 46-45 lead with 5 minutes left.
The game was back and forth from that point on. Down by 3 points with less than 30 seconds left Troy Brokl took a quick 3 that rimmed out and later took another forced 3 down by 4 that ended the game.
“I need to have the ball in my hands at that point of the game”, said Edmound Elzy
Brokl was 0-9 from behind the Arc and 2 for 12 overall. “I was just a bad shooting day for me”, said Brokl.
Richie Smith lead Team 3 with 19 points and Chris Lemay chipped in a strong 17 points.
The Finals are set to start Monday.
Correction- Flatt made the finals last season.
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