CS Cardinals rally past Medicine Lodge

By Michael Buhler TSnews

The Conway Springs Cardinals boys basketball team overcame a seven-point halftime deficit to lead by the end of the third quarter and take a 44-36 win over Medicine Lodge last Friday night.

The Cardinals (5-3) trailed 16-7 at the end of the opening period and 25-18 at halftime, but held the visiting Indians to just one basket in the third quarter as they built up a 30-27 lead by the beginning of the fourth quarter.

“We did a really nice job of digging a hole to start the

Medicine Lodge game,” Conway Springs coach Paul Lange said. “Our rotations were slow defensively and to their credit they were draining shots. We knew we had to do something different to shake things up, so we went to a more aggressive defense.

“We could see it paying dividends pretty quickly and got the game tied at 18 before we relaxed and let them go on a 7-0 run just before halftime. In a way that wasn’t all bad because it fired us up and gave us something to talk about during the half. We came out even more focused in the third and were able to get our heads back above