Coach Brian Muldowney had every reason to blame the weather and a bunch of other circumstances for the St. Francis CYO basketball team’s loss in the state tournament semifinals on April 12. After all, the tourney’s “Final Four” should have been over weeks ago. But the coach didn’t want to make excuses.
“The bottom line is we got outplayed,” said Muldowney, following the Rams’ 60-37 loss to Perth Amboy’s Our Lady of Fatima. “Whether we played it a month ago or three weeks ago, it doesn’t matter.
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