Watertown Recreation
Game Time and Gauchos battled past dark in the Papas Elite Summer Basketball semifinals.
The defending champion is out and the finals matchup is set for the Papas Elite Summer Basketball League.
Top seed Game Time ousted the Gauchos in game three of the semi-final series of the Papas Elite League Monday night at Saltonstall Park (behind the Watertown Boys and Girls Club) with the winner advancing to the Championship Series against Donohue’s Kaos.
For most of the first half, the teams were locked into a competitive close battle with multiple lead changes along the way.
Unfortunately for the Gauchos, this didn’t last as the top seed launched an offensive and raced to 37-27 half time lead that it never relinquished.
Led by top scorer Rob Stockwell (Bates ’07), 21 points; four threes in the first half, Game Time carried the play for the rest of the game for a well-deserved 71-48 victory.
Leading scorers who contributed to the cause included; Jonah Travis (Harvard ’15) 15 points, Nick Schmiemann (Bates ’11) 11 points, and Ramon Garcia (Bates ’04) 11 points.
Top scorers were Andre Tongo (Stonehill ‘12) 15 points and Tom Palleschi (Tufts ’17) with 11.
Gauchos won game 1 of the series 62-53, but Game Creek evened the series with a 75-68 win in game 2.
Donohue’s wrapped up their best-of-three series in two games. They beat with a defending champs HBC, 50-46 the defending champs.
In game 1, Seth Hauben led all scorers with 22 points, while teammate chipped in 19, leading Donohue’s Kaos to a 55-52 win over HBC in game one action of the Watertown Recreation Department Men’s Basketball League semi-final action.
Ryan Sharry (16) and Greg Kelly (15) played well for HBC in defeat.
The first game of the finals is Tuesday night at 8:20 p.m., preceded by a double header of the O’Brien-Jerahian Legends semifinals at 6:30 p.m. and 7:25 p.m.
Game 2 of the Papas Elite finals is Tuesday Aug. 9 at 8:30 p.m. and game 3, if needed, will be on Thursday, Aug. 11 at 8 p.m.