The Monticello Sages played host to the Olympia Spartans Tuesday evening. What was a physical basketball game throughout saw the Sages most of the way, including the entire second half. The Sages held only a 4 point lead going into the half, but a  6-0 run out of the gate  propelled their lead to double figures. In the fourth, Olympia had cut the lead to 5 but the Sages were once again able to go on a nice run and stretch the lead back out to double figures and pull away for a 54-41 victory. The Sages were led by the 23 points of 6-foot-8 junior Matt Kruse. Ryan Donahue chipped in 11 as well.

While it's hard to gage a high school basketball teams strength of schedule, especially just weeks into a 5 month long season, Sages head coach Kevin Roy realizes his team has played some tough competition, but that is not an excuse for his team to be down on themselves.

[audio:coachroy.mp3]Coach Roy On His Team's Early Schedule[/audio]

With the victory the Sages improve to 2-3. The Sages JV lost 49-37 and fall to 2-2.

The next Monitcello game can be heard when the girls team will play Sullivan on Thursday night 7:00 pm on WEZC.