Spartans lose rebounding fight in RWC championship clash

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Spartans lose rebounding fight in RWC championship clash

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Rebounding hurt Richmond in its 61-40 loss to Bishop LeBlond in the Richmond Winter Classic boys title game, Spartans coach Brent Behler acknowledged. “When you let a good team shoot two to three times a possession, you’re going to struggle to win and we did that, consistently. … They were just getting too many looks at the basket,” Behler said minutes after the Feb. 1 loss in the Richmond High School gym. “If you don’t clear that first board against a good team, you’re going to have problems and we did not, all night. We were giving them second-chance opportunities most of the night.” Rebounding is one of LeBlond’s strengths, according to Golden Eagles coach Mitch Girres. “It’s … (an) effort thing,” Girres said. “It’s not really like … (there are) any technical aspects of it. It’s just go get the ball, and we have … three or four kids out there at any time that really go rebound and really go do it and have the desire to do it. And that’s what makes us pretty tough is we really…

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