On Feb 19 Knights return back home for a noon tip off and lost 90 to 63 against Quincy College to finish the regular season and snap a 14 game winning streak.

Both teams already clinched a playoff spot but this game it’s more than that.

The playoff seeding still haven’t been determined until the last game of the regular season the winner of this game will secured at least two playoff home games and the number two seed for the Region 21 tournament the loser only have one home game secured and the number three seed.

The Knights clinched the third seed and Quincy clinched the second seed .

Before the game the Knights honor Matt D’Amato of Peabody and Daniel Almarente of Lawrence. This was their final regular season game.

“I established this back in 2005 or 06 I believe that all of my sophomore how come in this program and don’t have any eligibility left they get a basketball from their teammates signed and today it was Daniel and Matt D’Amato…” Stratton said.

Stratton said this game would be an opportunity avenge a loss from earlier in the season.

” The two hottest team in the region is facing of… it should be a great game,” Stratton said.

Daniel Almarante of Lawrence did not played on Thursday last game against Massasoit because the death of his grandfather. “I spoke with Daniel I know he is having a difficult time him and his family and I actually offered to give him the opportunity to not play tonight as well but yesterday at practice he said he wants to play he wants to try to work through it so Daniel is a warrior no matter what I know it was killing him not to play and be there with the team the other night but he did the right thing and family always come first that’s what I believe,” Stratton said.

Stratton said Quincy has a size advantage against the Knights “…They’ve got a tremendous size on us if we don’t stay discipline and block out and use ball fake it’s going to be a long night for us…,” Stratton said.

Quincy had two players coming into the game with top five 3 point percentages. Dougles Alverez was  shooting 45.2 and Jeremeh Steplen was  shooting 42.6.

Stratton said he hoped the Knights would be able to guard the two players more and prevent them from making three pointers.

Ismal Fafana is shooting 53.2 percentage from the field goal the key to minimize the big three heading into tonight game.

Mehmet Asik of Ankara Turkey did not play in the season finale with a hamstring injury that he has been battling.

Knights did not came aggressive as they usually were in the past home games to started off the game they started slow they were missing shots into the bucket.

The Knights won the tipoff against Quincy. Knights did not came aggressive as they usually were in the past home games to started off the game they started slow they were missing shots into the basket.

In the first period they were a few turnovers.

“We made a lot of turnovers, we became very undisciplined we made a lot of mistakes a lot of physical stuff that we made…” Stratton said.

In the first period Alves, point guard for Quincy made 3 straight 3 pointer. He finished the first period with 4 three pointer’s and 17 points. Quincy throughout the game scored 12 three pointers.

“We were not just contesting shots… we had our hands down we weren’t up in their grill,  we  we didn’t coach well at all my self, Coach Tardif, Coach Nofi we didn’t coach well at all and we have to start reevaluating our self,” Stratton said.

The Knights ended the first period on a 10-4 run but it wasn’t enough for the Knights to go back to the locker room with a lead. “We just had some guys made some plays we wanted to get we wanted to speed the game up getting in tradition and that’s who we were doing and obviously just we didn’t able to continue it, player Cameron Stratton said.

The Knights was losing 48 to 34 they were down by 14 at the half. Knights had 3 fouls during the first period while Quincy had 4.

Coach Stratton broke the white board after a time out. One of the assistant coaches had given the white board to Stratton to draw the next moves they were going to make. “I was aggravated at the way we were competing I was aggravated more of my self then the players. We just really weren’t mentally and physically ready to play and I just got aggravated and… got frustrated more frustration than anything I was more frustrated more myself then the players,” Stratton said.

The Knight got completely blown out Ashton Ventola of Danville, N.H. who played seven minutes told me “We just got to be better that’s it there is no other explanation we just got to be better we have to play better we have to be better,” he said.

Elijah Hass he was the team leader with just 11 points during the game and for Quincy the top two leaders it was Alves scoring 23 points and Stephens scoring 22 combining 45 points together.

The Knights had Ventola, Cameron Stratton and Matt Logue of Windham N.H. without scoring points during the game.