There wasn't much more Stonington could have done to stop Shane Gibsonbut like most teams this season, the strategy became more one of stopping the rest of the Killingly Redmen.
Gibson, who will play Division - I college basketball next season, scored 37 po ints but it didn't bring Killingly a win as it fell to the Bears Tuesday night, 75-65.
"You knew he was going to score his points, the object was to make it as hard as possible," Stonington coach Michael Reyes said.
But even that was difficult as Gibson rained 28 points down on the Bears in the second half, 15 of those in the fourth quarter as he helped Killingly pull to wiithin four points late.
Unfortunately for the Redmen, even that effort was not enough as the Bears scored seven of the last eight points in the game to remain undefeated in the ECC Medium Division.
Gibson's 37-point effort was by far the biggest output of the night, offensively, for Killingly as the next leading scorer had six points.
"It hasn't been that way for the last four or five ballgames," Killingly coach Scott Derosier said of Gibson's one-man offensive show,."It reverted back to that (Tuesday night) and give Stonington credit for some of that, but we had open looks for other guys and they just didn't hit them."