Boston Warrior AAU Boy's Basketball: Warrior News: Gerry saves the day for Brockton

Anyone who wasn’t at the Brockton-Catholic Memorial contest missed one heck of a game with an even better finish.
Kyle Gerry went coast-to-coast and hit a jumper from the right side with 2.1 seconds left to give Brockton a wild 91-90 victory over Catholic Memorial in a nonleague battle of top-five programs. CM had one final shot to win the game but Julian Colarusso’s desperation jumper from the right baseline bounced off the rim as time expired.
Give Brockton some serious credit for battling back in the fourth quarter. Trailing by 10 against an undefeated team in one of the toughest gym in the state to play in, the Boxers clawed their way back behind the brilliant shooting of Jarrod DeVaughn.
He tends to get overlooked because his frontcourt partner is All-Scholastic Louis Montes, but DeVaughn saved Brockton’s bacon in the final stanza. He hit three huge trifectas, one of them seemingly launched from the nearby Dunkin Donuts parking lot, to get the Boxers back in the game. DeVaughn finished with a team-high 27 points, 13 coming in the fourth quarter.
DeVaughn gave the Boxers a 87-84 lead with two free throws with 1:17 left, but Colarusso (31 points) carried the Knights down the stretch. He trimmed the margin to one with a bucket from close range, then drew an offensive foul at the other end. Allen Harris gave the Knights an 88-87 lead with a layup off an inbounds play.
The aforementioned Montes (16 points, 11 rebounds) showed some of his strength on the ensuing possession. With a Knight defender slapping at the ball, Montes managed to muscle in a jumpshot from the left of the foul line to make it 89-88 Brockton. But Colarusso responded with a monster jumper with 6.8 seconds left to set the stage for Gerry’s heroics.