Wareham boys basketball beats West Bridgewater, advances to finals

The Wareham High School boys basketball team have made it to the MIAA finals after beating West Bridgewater High School 80-66 on Tuesday, March 10.

The team will play against Georgetown High School, but a date and location have not yet been announced.

"From my experience, because I've won it before, I just know once you get there, you got to win it," said team captain Aaron Cote. "That's something you can do. You got to be able to win the game."

Head Coach Steve Faniel said the plan going into the Tuesday evening game was to focus on playing with a lot of pace.

"We thought that they wanted to slow the game down," Faniel said. "They're a pretty physical team, that you see today ... so we just wanted to wear them out and play with a lot of pace."

Cote recalled what Faniel had told the team in the locker room before the game: "We got to dive deep into the water until they can't breathe no more and just get up."

He said that the team went into the game thinking that they would have to run West Bridgewater "out the floor," keep pushing the ball, and outrunning and outscoring West Bridgewater.

"We just wanted to run up and down the court, wear them down, keep the pressure on them, on both sides of the ball," Faniel said.

With the date not yet announced for the final game, Faniel said the plan is to first rest up then learn from the game.

Faniel noted that some mistakes were made during the game, and they will watch the film back to see what they could improve.

"[Georgetown] is the defending champs, so ... it's not going to be easy," he said.