Live from the TD Garden: A second half surge leads Brewster Academy past Worcester Academy, 84-76
Providence commit Kayvaun Mulready scored 18 points and defended aggressively in the Garden.
Early in the second half, it looked as though Worcester Academy might just knock off powerhouse Brewster Academy in the Andrew James Lawson Foundation Invitational.
After a back-and-forth first half that featured nine lead changes and no advantage greater than five points, recent Providence commit Kayvaun Mulready buried a deep 3-pointer to push Worcester Academy head, 50-40, early in the second half at the TD Garden.
The bucket capped a 13-4 WA spurt, and it certainly looked like they were in business.
Saturday night’s contest featured two of the best teams in New England — the defending NEPSAC AAA champions in Brewster against the 2022 AA winners in Worcester.
There was no shortage of star power in this one. Mulready, a tenacious guard in the class of 2024, runs the point for a group featuring 2023 stars in Duke-bound forward TJ Power and a future Marquette guard Tre Norman.
Brewster is flush with talent once again this season. Solomon Ball is a terrific scoring guard headed to UConn in the fall, and Friar fans are familiar with the length and athleticism of Taylor Bowen from when PC recruited him prior to his commitment to Florida State.
The Friar staff also monitored, or recruited to some extent, big man JP Estrella (Tennessee) and shooter Reid Durcharme (Xavier), while Brewster also has 6’8 Penn State commit Carey Booth, four star Wake Forest pledge Aaron Clark, a UCF commit in Comeh Emuobor, and the 6’10 Sawyer Mayhugh who will play at UMass.
It’s a group that Brewster head coach Jason Smith called perhaps the deepest he’s had in his famed career in Wolfeboro. It is a program that has dominated New England over the past 15 years, and could certainly make the case as the best high school team in the country over the past decade.
It was that depth and length that helped Brewster turn the game around in the second half.