Claremont defeats Spectrum in challenge game
It was packed, loud with raucous chanting with the pounding beats of the drumming crashing right to the back of the scull. In short, everything high school sports should be, as the host Claremont Spartans outlasted Spectrum 75-67 in the Island Quad-A boys’ basketball play-in game to advance to the B.C. championship tournament next week at the Langley Events Centre.
“It came down to our Grade 12 experience,” said Spartans head coach and former UVic Vikes-guard Brandon Dunlop. There is every indication that the younger Hinrichsen will one day follow his dad into the B.C. tournament, in which the elder Hinrichsen led Carihi to third place 29 years ago. Oak Bay beat Claremont 94-58 in the Island final last weekend. Third-place Spectrum had the right to challenge the runner-up Spartans for the second Island berth into provincials.