{"id":24626,"date":"2025-03-08T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24626"},"modified":"2025-03-10T06:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:09:16","slug":"tale-of-two-halves-new-haven-dominates-second-to-advance-against-norwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/tale-of-two-halves-new-haven-dominates-second-to-advance-against-norwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of two halves: New Haven dominates second to advance against Norwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Norwell held a slim 22-19 lead heading into the halftime talks in Friday&#8217;s sectional semifinal at the Bellmont 3A boys&#8217; basketball sectional, but the New Haven Bulldogs came out of the lockers a different team and dominated the Knights en route to a 71-49 victory, their second of the season against their conference rival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to Norwell&#8217;s success in the first half was holding superstar Jadrien Ezell to just a pair of threes, but the guard unleashed a torrent of shots in the second half, ending the game with a game-high 30 total points. He made eight threes in the contest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IHSAA Boys Basketball 3A Sectional, New Haven vs Norwell, 3\/7\/25\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PqqfHaVTX7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Haven outscored Norwell 25-11 in the third quarter, with every bucket made coming from behind the arc (and one free throw). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of depth for Norwell also hurt their game, as they were once again held to just four scorers. The Knights were led by Josh McBride&#8217;s 22 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BOWERS-GOLF.jpg?resize=640%2C278&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BOWERS-GOLF.jpg?w=805&amp;ssl=1 805w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BOWERS-GOLF.jpg?resize=300%2C130&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BOWERS-GOLF.jpg?resize=768%2C334&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam McBride had nine of Norwell&#8217;s 16 points in the fourth quarter to finish with 14 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garry Riley added seven points in the loss, while Owen Wallis knocked down three shots for six points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mar82025.jpg?resize=640%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mar82025.jpg?resize=1024%2C373&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mar82025.jpg?resize=300%2C109&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mar82025.jpg?resize=768%2C280&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mar82025.jpg?w=1099&amp;ssl=1 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Haven advanced to the final to take on Marion, who won 77-60 against Heritage. The Bulldogs are now 14-10 on the year. Interestingly, when games against 4A competition are removed, New Haven are 12-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norwell&#8217;s 2024-25 season ends with the Knights holding an even 12-12 record. It&#8217;s a disappointing finish to a season that saw the Knights enter the new year with an 8-2 record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwell held a slim 22-19 lead heading into the halftime talks in Friday&#8217;s sectional semifinal at the Bellmont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,46,26],"class_list":["post-24626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-norwell","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-sports.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24651,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions\/24651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}