Barnum Boys Fall To Sebeka 79-64

The Barnum Bombers team met up with the third ranked boys basketball team in Class A on Saturday. After taking a 45-41 lead early in the second half, Sebeka pushed to beat the number seven ranked Bombers 79-64.

Barnum fell behind early in the 1st half, trailing by as many as 13 points. However, their persistent defense coupled with Taylor Carson’s and Jacob Naslund’s timely shooting got the Bombers back into the game late in the first half. Carson and Naslund went 5-6 from the free throw line to cut the Sebeka lead to six (35-29) at the break.

The Bombers came out on fire at the start of the second half, going on a 16-6 run to build a four-point lead for Barnum.
Trojan head coach, Jon Lillquist, took a time out. After regrouping, Sebeka rebounded and went on their own 22- 4 run, eventually winning by fifteen.

The Bombers first loss of the season now drops them to 9-1 overall.
Taylor Carlson led the Bombers with 15 points on the afternoon, Justin Newman had 14, Josh Hogan added 10,
while Jacob Naslund and Bobby Minkkinen finished with 9 points each.
Rounding out the Bombers scoring was Nick White with 5 points and Andrew Youngren who ended with 2.

The Trojans improve to 7-1 and will be at home Tuesday night against Verndale. Trojans’ Alex Brockpahler led all scorers with 22 points. John Clark and Cody Pulja both had 16 points.

The Bombers play Tuesday night at Moose Lake High School in a huge Polar league match-up against the Moose Lake-Willow River Rebels.