GREENTOWN – With girls postseason basketball taking center stage this week and boys games sandwiched in between girls sectional games, Eastern couldn’t have asked for a much better Thursday night of boys hoops.
Comet senior standout Colton Lindsay became just the seventh Howard County boys player to surpass 1,500 career points and Eastern led all but the first 1:30 of the game against visiting Wes-Del, knocking back every Warrior burst and taking a 66-49 win.
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