By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

WHAT started out as a slow- paced game for senior boys turned out to be a rout for the St Anne’s Blue Waves as they shot the lights out on the Temple Christian Suns 73-48.

The Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools’ game was played yesterday at Temple Christian and was completed just before it got too dark after both teams committed their share of personal fouls.

After going scoreless for the first four minutes of the first quarter, St Anne’s broke their drought by taking a 7-0 lead and they never looked back, holding off Temple Christian 9-3 at the end of the period.

Reagan Knowles, Ashton Knowles and Duran Marshall led the attack for the Blue Waves, who improved theior win-loss record to 2-1.

The closest the Suns, who remained 0-3 with the loss, came was 9-6 to start the second quarter on two consecutive baskets from Andre Calvert.

But the combination of Derryn Johnson (on a crowd-pleasing slam dunk), Garrett Edgecombe, Aaron Johnson and Reagan Cartwright helped the Blue Waves to surge ahead 25-12 and they extended it to 35-15 at the half.

St Anne’s went on to outscore Temple Christian 13-12 as they held onto a 48-27 lead at the end of the third.

From there, it was just a matter of what the final score would be as the Blue Waves went on a couple of spurts in the fourth before Calvert tried his best down the stretch to keep the Suns in the game, but it was a little too late.

Aaron Jordan led St Anne’s with 19 points, Ashton Knowles had 12, Reagan Cartwright and Darryn Johnson both had 11 and Duran Marshall chipped in with nine.

“I think we could have done a little better. We’ve come a long way because last year, they were a losing team,” said first year coach Simone Paul, who came over from St John’s College where he coached the Giants’ junior boys last year.

“I like their togetherness. As long as they play together, we will be able to compete with anybody. This team does very well when they compete together.”

St Anne’s will now prepare for the Queen’s College Comets on Wednesday and Paul said they’re just going to “take it one game at a time.”

Calvert finished with a game high 20, including 12 in the fourth quarter for Temple Christian. Brothers Zion and Garrett Edgecombe as well as Cohen Miller all chipped in with six.

“We came out flat, but we had a successful second quarter,” said Suns’ coach Jamaal Smith.

“We had a lot of open looks and we were able to get back into the game.

“But we have to clean up the mental mistakes we are making and play a full game of basketball. It’s a young team with 11 new players, so we have to work through these teaching moments.”

Smith said they are going to have to go through the growing pains to get better, but he anticipates that they will get better with time.