RHS Wabaunsee Boys Basketball

From CJOnline:
    For a program that hasn’t posted a winning season since 2005, victories seemingly can be tough to come by.
    So it shouldn’t be a huge surprise just how tough it’s been for Wabaunsee’s boys to get to the 7-10 mark they’re sporting with three games left.
    Of those seven wins, four have come on last-second shots. The latest of the Chargers’ fantastic finishes came Tuesday night when Nick Terrapin’s layup at the buzzer gave Wabaunsee a 41-39 win over visiting Rossville.
    The buzzer-beating win was the second in 12 days for the Chargers over the Bulldogs. On Feb. 1, Nick Herren’s shot in the final seconds gave Wabaunsee a 55-54 win at Rossville.
    “My heart’s doing good, but my goatee’s getting a little gray,” Wabaunsee coach Dustin Wilson joked. “It’s actually been a lot of fun honestly. We’ve just kind of been hanging around in those games and the calm and poise our kids have shown in instances where other teams would have panicked has been tremendous to see. You could just see it on their faces that they know they’re not out of it.”
With Tuesday’s game tied 39-39, Wilson called a timeout with seven seconds left to draw up a final play.         With Herren already having beaten Rossville once, Wilson told his senior guard to “Get the ball and go make a play.”
    When Herren got double-teamed he threw a pass cross-court that was intended for teammate Ethan Miller. Instead, Terrapin ended up snagging the pass and after fumbling the ball, he corralled it an laid it in at the buzzer for the winner.
    It wasn’t Terrapin’s first game-winner of the season. He also hit a shot in the final seconds to give Wabaunsee a 42-40 win over Chapman in mid-January. AJ Wertzberger has also gotten in on the heroics, hitting a shot with 1.6 seconds left to give the Chargers a 58-57 win over Mission Valley last week.
“It’s nice because our two leading scorers are Herren and Shane (Flach), and it’s easy to key on those guys,” Wilson said. “With AJ and Nick willing to step up and make big plays, it just makes it hard to guard just those two guys in those situations.”
    Wabaunsee has won three of its last four — all three wins coming in the final seconds. In all three wins, the Chargers also trailed in the fourth quarter, by as much as 11 in the first game with Rossville and to Mission Valley and by six in Tuesday’s contest.
    “They probably do expect to win in that situation now that we’ve done it four times,” Wilson said. “When it was six points in the fourth quarter last night, every one of them was, ‘It was worse last time we played them. It was worse against Mission Valley.’ In the huddle, when we draw up a play, everyone’s locked in.”
Such victories can certainly provide a team with momentum and the Chargers will need it as they prepare to host a Class 2A sub-state in two weeks that will include Lyndon (17-1) and Marais des Cygnes Valley (16-1). Lyndon is ranked No. 2 in 2A and MdCV’s lone loss came to the Tigers.
    “We want to play our best ball going into sub-state and we feel like we’re doing that,” Wilson said. “The kids are confident right now that we can compete with anybody we can play against. You put yourself in position to win games in the fourth quarter and you feel like you’ve got a chance.”