Maryland High School Basketball - Atholton holds off River Hill
February 28, 2022: Columbia, MD 21044 Fans at Monday's non-league challenge between the Atholton Raiders (Columbia, MD) and the visiting River Hill Hawks (Clarksville, MD), saw Atholton's basketball squad hold off River Hill by a tally of 48-44.
With the victory, Atholton improves its record to 14-3 on the campaign. The Raiders travel to Long Reach (Columbia, MD) to confront the Lightning in a non-league challenge on Wednesday, March 2. The Lightning come into the challenge with a record of 12-5. Long Reach won 62-59 in their recent non-league challenge against Wilde Lake (Columbia, MD)
First Quarter
See 4th quarter for the exciting details.
Fourth Quarter
Down 38-31 with 1:38 to go, the Raiders roared back behind 3 three pointers by Amir Shaheed to pull our a very exciting win. Malachi Walton-Smith had two key steals in the last 25 seconds of the game and Zach Callender had a three point play with 20 seconds to go to pull the Raider within one at 44-43, That set the stage for Malachi's first steal and the assist on Amir's go ahead 3 ointer. He then stole the ball again with 6 seconds left and calmly made two free throws to ice the game.
