This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Guilford basketball pulled off a rare season sweep of Boylan. Guilford is now 2-for-2 fahita s Boylan this year after beating the Titans on their home floor 40-34 on Wednesday night. We didn’t do enough offensively to stay in the game.
We had it to one possession a couple of times and couldn’t find a way to score. They are going to be tough come postseason time. He twice blocked Mark Harris shots in the lane with two minutes left to keep Guilford ahead by four. Unless, Guilford said, you are going up against the Vikings senior captain. Malachi Johnson, who led Guilford with 19 points.
He does it all the time. Mekhi Doby, whose reverse layup with 36 seconds left gave Guilford a four-point lead. He clogs up the middle for us every time. Pressure only fuels me to do better. Is he going to do good in the NIC-10? The NIC-10 has only made me stronger. He has been nothing but great.
We talked about coming into Guilford, me as a new head coach, him as a freshman, we wanted to change the program together. We sat down and talked about what we needed to do. He works really hard on his game. He is constantly in the gym, him and Mekhi. Those kinds of kids who work hard, they trust in each other. And I trust in them as well. At the time, he had been an assistant coach in the NIC-10 for 17 years, starting at Guilford and the last 10 at Jefferson.
Jefferson had an all-Black roster but had never had a Black head coach. 15 years and has a chance to tie or break the school record of 14 league wins. Without Coach Dixon, none of this would be possible. School district officials used to always tell Dixon, the head pastor at 2nd Christian Church, that they did not want to hire a head coach who didn’t work in their school building. But Maestranzi worked for his family’s knife company. Still, Dixon won’t say I told you so. When I got it, I felt I could hold up my end.
I am a minister, so that’s something I don’t practice. But I am always out to prove people wrong. I was feeling it before JV started when we were putting up shots. Every time I shoot the ball I expect it to go in. I put up thousands of shots a week. I perfect my craft every day.
But when Guilford needed its biggest basket, the Vikings turned to Doby. The junior forward beat his defender off the dribble, muscled his way under the basket and scored on a reverse layup with 36 seconds left to push Guilford’s lead to 38-34. He is always coming up clutch for me. A few years ago, we didn’t have crowds. Now everyone is coming out to support us. That means a lot to us. I understand the wording, but expect to win.
When you expect to win, you go into a game without any doubts. We didn’t consider it an upset. So let’s go into their house and put on the best game we can put on. And now they plan to keep on winning. What’s in store for the Vikings the rest of the season? We’ve got a lot to do. I can’t even say regionals, because there’s more.
This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Guilford basketball pulled off a rare season sweep of Boylan. Guilford is now 2-for-2 against Boylan this year after beating the Titans on their home floor 40-34 on Wednesday night. We didn’t do enough offensively to stay in the game. We had it to one possession a couple of times and couldn’t find a way to score. They are going to be tough come postseason time. He twice blocked Mark Harris shots in the lane with two minutes left to keep Guilford ahead by four.
Unless, Guilford said, you are going up against the Vikings senior captain. Malachi Johnson, who led Guilford with 19 points. He does it all the time. Mekhi Doby, whose reverse layup with 36 seconds left gave Guilford a four-point lead. He clogs up the middle for us every time.
Pressure only fuels me to do better. Is he going to do good in the NIC-10? The NIC-10 has only made me stronger. He has been nothing but great. We talked about coming into Guilford, me as a new head coach, him as a freshman, we wanted to change the program together.