Sky View Bobcats end season at quarter finals

The Sky View High School Bobcats Boys Basketball Team hit the end of their 4A State Playoff journey, as they lost to the Timpview T-Birds, 59-48 at the Dee Events Center in Odgen on Thursday evening. The Bobcats kept things close through two quarters, but the T-Birds exploded in the third quarter, outscoring the Bobcats 17-6. Sky View struggled offensively as well in the fourth quarter and was never able to make up the deficit.

Ed. Note: Craig J. Peterson has a nice gallery of images from the game at Cache Valley Daily.

Senior Kyler Carlsen shined in the loss, scoring 16 points on 6-of-17 shooting from the floor to go along with five rebounds. Carlsen didn’t have much help from his teammates though; he was the only Bobcat to reach double figure scoring. Senior Nick Eskelson came the closest to scoring double-figures hitting nine points on three 3’s all the fourth quarter when the T-Birds had already put the game away.

Eli Robison of Timpview led all scorers with 14 points and two other T-Birds also reached double figures. Colby Jorgenson scored 12 points and Christian Covey had 11 points. Overall the T-Birds shot 55 percent from the field.

The Bobcats played stellar defense against the T-Birds through the first two quarters, but struggled on the offensive end. Sky View finished the night shooting 35 percent from the field and from 3-point range.

In the third quarter Don Corbell hit two lay-ups, Carlsen hit one lay-up, and Brian Godfrey hit a pair of free-throws to account for the Bobcats scoring. In the end, especially in the third quarter, the T-Birds fast-breaks and offensive rebounding doomed the Bobcats. The T-Birds out-rebounded the Bobcats 38-28, and out-scored the Bobcats in the paint 28-18. One positive note for the Bobcats is that they out-scored the T-Birds bench 20-7. The Bobcats finished second place in Region 5 and ended the season with a 17-6 record.