DEXTER – The first half of basketball was overpowered by the big man in the middle for the General Brown Lions, Carter Rosbrook, as Sherburne-Earlville didn’t have an answer for him. The Lions then carried the first half momentum into the third quarter, where they put the game away against the Marauders to win 60-48 in the second round of the Section III boys basketball tournament.

Rosbrook – a 6 foot-5 inch senior – finished the contest with a double-double, scoring a game-high 26 points and gathering 13 rebounds.

General Brown, with their height and size, secured the opening tip in the contest but missed on their first possession. In fact, either team did not register a made basket until a minute and a half into the game where Rosbrook finished from the inside.

From there, the Lions took a 6-0 lead before S-E’s Hunter Lane scored the first Marauders’ points.

The two teams went back and forth following the early run by the host team but Sherburne-Earlville closed in, cutting the lead down to three points with 2:06 remaining in the first quarter. Lane put another two points on the score board following a Rosbrook finish and a Kyle Nichols made free throw for the Lions.

It looked as if the score was going to be 14-10 at the end of the first but General Brown’s Jake Heller drained a 3-point bucket before the buzzer, making the lead seven points.