SUWANEE, GA - Up 35-17 at halftime, players from Greenforest Christian went into the locker room feeling good about themselves.

Then youth set in and 18 minutes of a Sequoyah comeback.

The defending Class A Private state champs scored a quiet 11 points in the second half and had to fight tooth and nail for a 46-44 win against the Cherokee County school.

Greenforest head coach David Jones, a 40-year veteran of coaching high school hoops, summed up his team's performance in one quick answer.

"We didn't do anything right. We couldn't run our offense. We couldn't guard anyone. We couldn't rebound. We didn't do anything well but be lucky enough to win the ball game," Jones said.

In a nutshell, that was the story.

Greenforest has a roster filled with sophomore and freshmen, talented young men at that but also inexperienced. Sequoyah is a disciplined crew that knows how to run a patient offense and executed well in the second half to overcome the 18-point deficit.

Sequoyah's Dalton Satterfield scored 10 of his team-high 14 points in the second half and took advantage of big plays from Logan Taylor (nine points), Brandon Johnson and Jordan Usher.

Greenforest was paced by John Ogwuche's 12 points and six rebounds. Big men Faisal Abdul-Malik (8 points, 7 rebounds) and Precious Ayah (10 points 10 rebounds) added to the production.