BOSTON — It was there for the taking.

The fourth-seeded Somerset Berkley boys basketball team had two-time defending state champion No. 1 seed Malden Catholic on the ropes twice with 2:34 remaining in Monday's Division 2 Final 4 game.

When Lancers forward Benjamin Howard IV missed a pair of free throws, the Raiders had one last opportunity to force overtime or win it with 10.9 second left. But as was the case for much of the evening, SBR did not get the lucky bounce.

"When it left my hand, I thought I put too much on it," Raiders senior captain Mason Medeiros said on the final shot as Malden Catholic hung on to beat SBR, 50-48, at UMass-Boston. "It looked like it might go off the glass but I did not put enough on it."

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