In the final stages of the fourth quarter, the Marshall Statesmen boys basketball team held a five-point lead and appeared poised to improve to 4-0.
Then the visiting Statesmen hit a couple of late-game bumps in the road, resulting in a 59-53 overtime road loss to the Lake Braddock Bruins (1-2), who won for the first time this high-school season.
Marshall fell to 3-1.
With 3:35 remaining in the game, Marshall center Anderson Krisko (eight points, five rebounds, three blocks) fouled out, hurting the team on both ends of the court. Then in overtime, Marshall made just 1 of 6 foul shots as it was outscored 9-3 in the extra period.
For the game, the Statesmen made just 2 of 12 free throws.
Marshall led 16-12 at the end of the first quarter and 33-28 at halftime. The score was tied at 42 after three periods. The Statesmen moved in front 49-44 in the fourth quarter, then struggled after Krisko fouled out.
Trey Lonardo had 15 points for the Statesmen, Marshall Pan scored 11, Shreyas Vaidya had eight with four rebounds and three assists, and Osteen Suguru scored six with three assists.
In its first three games, Marshall had won by margins of 20, 15 and 14 points:
- Krisko had 27 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks in a win over Centreville, with Lonardo scoring 12 and Vaidya 11.
- Krisko had a 14-point, 11-rebound double-double against Brooke Point of Stafford County, a game in which Lonardo and Vaidya each scored 11 and Jackson Fraser scored 12 with seven assists.
- In a win over the Robinson Rams, Lonardo scored 19 and Krisko and Vaidya 13 each.
