Blazers lose TCAF semi-final 59-39

Three players. Thirty-nine points. Season over.
Three Chisholm Trail Academy seniors were the only Blazers who could get the ball to fall Friday as they lost to Immanuel Christian of El Paso, 59-39, in the semi-finals of the Texas Christian Athletic Fellowship state tournament at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie.
Darian Berry scored a game-high tying 22 points, TJ Grady scored nine and Kaleb Curnow tallied eight points to account for all of the Blazers' scoring.
CTA, the defending TCAF state champions, trailed by only four at halftime, 29-25, but managed only 14 second-half points.
A three-quarter-court bomb by Immanuel at the third-quarter buzzer seemed to stun the Blazers, who lost Curnow to fouls one minute into the final frame and managed only four fourth-quarter points.
Nothing would fall for CTA, as shot after shot rimmed out, bounced out or simply missed the mark.
Missing, too, was Kevin Squarzon, one of the area's best players, watching from the bench since being declared ineligible by the league for playing in a non-sanctioned game in December.
Berry, whose non-stop energy appeared to carry the team until that YouTube highlight shot went in, was named to the All-Tournament first team.
CTA ends the season with a 26-6 record and must replace a starting lineup and the first two or three reserves off the bench who are all seniors.