Fossum/Hompe Hit for 48 in Gopher Win

It’d been quite some time since Gopher classmates Parker Fossum and Alex Hompe played high school basketball together. Injury annulled last year’s junior season completely for Hompe, partially for Fossum. Fossum was on varsity sophomore year. In game three of their senior seasons, the duo made up for lost time, putting on an efficiency clinic versus Kingsland. Hompe, a 6’2” forward, scored Chatfield’s first 11 points. The twosome combined for 25 of the Gophers 28 first half points. The Knights rebounded from being down 22-8 to trail 28-22 at halftime. Chatfield went up 36-23 early in the second, only for the Knights to close to 42-37 at about the midway point. But they went just 1 for 18 shooting for five total points down the stretch. Fossum, a 6’3” senior forward, pumped in 14 second half points. Chatfield grabbed their first win of the year 60-42. Fossum (26 pts, 10-12 FGs, 4-5 three’s, 9 rebounds, 6 blocks) and Hompe (22 pts, 9-14 FTs, 9 rebs) each put up career games. The Gophers, particularly point guard Dillon Bance (8 pts, 9 rebs, 8 assists), were very patient, very effective in getting the ball to their two big guns. Junior guard Zach Bubany was the only Knight in double digits (17 pts, 4-10 three’s, 6-17 FGs).