LC: Lyncs slip by Lynden 55-52 in rivalry game

Continued from B1 to do as they went into halftime trailing 32-23.

Little by little Lynden was digging themselves out of the hole they were in at the beginning of the game.

Senior Kobe Baar had a big third quarter as he scored 10 points, but LC remained consistent and held onto the lead heading into the fourth.

Roper said they took the momentum in the last few quarters, but it was not quite enough.

“You can’t spot a good team like Lynden Christian 20-4 and expect things to happen. But I am proud of our guys for battling back,” Roper said.

e nal quarter is where the game got interesting. LC was having trouble stringing together multiple o ensive possessions ending in a score and Lynden junior Anthony Canales took advantage. He brought the Lions back from the brink of death and gave them their rst lead of the game late in the fourth.

Lynden held a 51-50 with two minutes left in the game. at is when Sipma made the plays of the game. e shot clock was running down and Sipma let o a three-pointer that seemed to hang in the air for eternity until nding the basket.

He had returned the lead to LC with just a minute left.

Following the shot, Lynden made a free throw to decrease the LC lead to 5352. Sipma still had work to do with just a minute left remaining.

He drove down the right side of the paint and hooked in a circus shot layup to bring the LC fans to their feet and give the Lyncs a 55-52 lead.

Sipma said he had a hard time nding a rhythm in the game until the fourth quarter, but his teammates trusted him to make the important baskets.

“I struggled all game nding a rhythm and at the end of the game I think my competitive nature took over,” Sipma said. “I was doing anything I could to get a bucket when we needed one.”

With little time left, the Lions had a shot at tying the game up with a threepoint shot.

Canales and Parcher both had three-point attempts but they fell short of the basket giving the Lyncs