High school boys basketball: Sky View soars into semis with win over Olympus

Dewey added 11 points and five more boards for the Bobcats, and it was his bucket with 1:40 to go that broke the 52-all deadlock and sparked Sky View's 10-5 spurt to finish the game. Dewey was a perfect 5-for-5 from the field.

"We knew we were gonna be in for a dogfight," Hillyard said. "It's 52-52 and Matt Dewey makes a great move to the basket and scores that. I'm proud of those guys. They played hard." "That was huge," Nielsen said of Dewey's big basket down the stretch. "He's a stud. I love that kid; I love this whole team, and without them we couldn't be where we're at. And if we keep playing together as a team and just keep getting better and better ..."

Then "two more" wins — and a long-awaited state championship — could be in the Bobcats' immediate future.

For Olympus (17-6), junior forward Alec Monson scored 16 of his team-leading 20 points in the second half, and Coulson Hardy had 19 points on the strength of 8-of-9 shooting with three 3-pointers for the Region 7 champion Titans.

But they saw their 11-game winning streak snapped and somehow lost despite shooting 60 percent (24-of-40) from the field. However, they only went to the foul line three times (3-of-3) compared to 16-of-21 free-throw shooting for Sky View.

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