The Ottawa boys basketball team held a three-point lead with just under six minutes to play in the third quarter of Tuesday’s game against S andwich at Kingman Gymnasium.

The Pirates, which led 10-9 after the opening quarter and 24-19 at the intermission, then put together a momentum-changing 14-2 run over the next four minutes and eventually closed out a 58-46 victory over the Indians.

“Our energy level was nowhere near where it needs to be in the first half,” Ottawa coach Mark Cooper said, his team now 3-1 on the young season. “We were giving good effort, but we just weren’t crisp, really sluggish on either end of the first the first 16 minutes. We were fortunate to have the lead going into halftime. Give Sandwich credit though, they were executing on a higher level and reboundin

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