By Nick Cammuso
Times West Virginian
FAIRMONT —
Thursday was not what David Retton would qualify as a good night’s rest.
“I slept about one hour,” Retton, Fairmont Senior’s veteran boys’ basketball coach said of the wee hours after his Polar Bears let a late lead slip away in a 77-74 overtime loss to visiting North Marion.
No, he wasn’t tossing and turning because the Huskies beat FSHS for the first time in a long time — four years overall, and six since they last won at the Woody Williams Armory — but because of how his team played down the stretch.
They had costly turnovers.
They went from taking a open shot in one instance to forcing something on the next possession.
And usually good foul shooters, they couldn’t find any consistency at the line — the Polar Bears went 16 of 25 overall (64 percent) and after making the first two of the fourth, went 1-2 on their final seven trips.
