Legendary boys basketball coach Tom Blackford’s return to coaching started with a statement. His Westmoreland team rallied late to snap years of frustration for a program that had gone 5-54 over the past three seasons with a 47-45 win over Town of Webb on Monday.

12/1 - 7:00 PM Boys basketball Final Town of Webb 45 Westmoreland 47

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“It was just an exciting night,” Blackford said. “I don’t care who we’re playing. Just to come away with the win.”

Westmoreland trailed 42-37 with just over 2:30 remaining in the game before going on its game-winning run.

The run started with a made floater from Sean Acee to cut the deficit to three points.

That was all the momentum the Bulldogs would need.

Evan Saxton scored on a fastbreak to cut it to one and another bucket

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