By Matthew DeGeorge
The scouting report on Chichester, coming into a game and certainly in a do-or-die out-of-bounds play with 4.2 seconds left, usually has DaQuan Granberry’s name circled in bold ink, and for good reason.
But the evolving identity to which Chichester aspires, in Clyde Jones’ first season in charge, is to be much more than just one highpowered scorer. It showed when Granberry sat for a breather late in the third quarter against Sun Valley Tuesday night, only to watch the Eagles nudge their way back ahead.
And with Granberry marooned in the corner by Sun Valley’s defensive design late in regulation, someone had to step up. Amiri Stewart gladly obliged.
Stewart canned the gametying triple to send the game to overtime, then the Eagles outlasted Sun Valley in a sloppy extra session, 7271, for a nonleague win between two teams dreaming of inclusion in the District 1 Class 5A playoffs.
Granberry provided three of the Eagles’ four points in overtime from the line, two on offsetting technical fouls, befitting the contentiousness of the night. He finished with 20 points — leaving him three shy of 1,000 for his career — and 12 rebounds. While he hit a pair of fourth-quarter 3s to reply to Sun Valley’s bids to capture momentum, he wasn’t the default option in isolation situations as he was last year.
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