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The Edmond Memorial Bulldogs prevailed in a game that came down to the buzzer to knock off the Midwest City Bombers in the championship game of the McGuinness Classic at McCarthy Gymnasium. Junior guard, Sean Pedulla scored the final bucket to give Memorial the lead with just seconds remaining. “We were running clear and we just wanted to make sure that we played with rhythm,” said Edmond Memorial head coach Shane Cowherd. “Offensively we have an awful lot of trust in a couple of our guys and Sean [Pedulla] usually makes the right play. I didn’t want to call a timeout in that situation and break any sort of rhythm that he would be moving with or playing and operating with.” After Pedulla’s score, Midwest City had a chance to tie or win on the other end of the floor and as Cowherd looked at the clock he noticed more time had been added. “The biggest shock for us was when they put time back up on the clock,” Cowherd said. “Because we didn’t know that until we came out of the timeout and that changed things dramatically. We thought we had 2.8 [seconds] and it turned out to not be that.” While the Bulldogs were in a timeout, the clock was reset to 4.8 seconds. This gave Midwest City time to go full court length and get a shot at the rim. But the layup rolled off the rim as the final seconds winded down. “Four point eight [seconds is] a long time,” Cowherd said. "I’m proud of my guys, we still gave Christian [Cook] too good of a look there but I think things would have been a little bit different if we would’ve had a little more time to solidify what the heck we were doing.” Pedulla had a big night for the Bulldogs. After an 11-point first half, he came out in the third quarter and knocked down four straight 3-pointers to extend Memorial’s lead. “I’ve been lacking in confidence to be honest,” Pedulla said. “This whole season I haven’t been able to shoot it that well but once that first one got going I was like ‘oh I miss this feeling’ and it just came back and felt good.” However, once Pedulla finally missed from deep, Midwest City went on an 8-0 run of their own to bring themselves within one point, headed into the fourth quarter. The Bombers then tied the game at 55 with a Christian Cook free-throw with just under three minutes to go. But the Bulldogs held on getting a score from Keyshon Spotwood and two from Pedulla, including the game-winning basket. “[Pedulla’s] a really talented player and he’s still growing and maturing as that player and he has so much higher of a ceiling, that’s the crazy thing,” Cowherd said. “I’ve coached some really, really good ones, I’ve been blessed, I’ve got great young men that have gone on from Edmond Memorial and he’s right there with a couple of those legendary kids that we’ve had and the thing about him is he’s such a competitor and he’s so hungry to keep working and improving, when the lights are brightest Sean’s going to show up in a big way.”

THE OFFICIAL SITE OF
Edmond Memorial High School Athletics

BULLDOGS WIN 60TH ANNUAL MCGUINNESS CLASSIC

JAMES JACKSON

Edmond Sun | 1/11/2020

PHOTO CREDIT: Memorial Athletics