Seabury senior Leah Tomassian, right front, and Jefferson County North senior Jessica Kearney fight for a loose ball. The Seahawks lost, 65-12, Thursday at Seabury.

Seabury sophomore Bill Gibbs (24) looks to the bucket as he moves past Jefferson County North junior Chris Hale. The Seabury boys fell, 68-39.

Seabury Academy’s boys basketball team wasn’t intimidated by a Class 3A Jefferson County North team that had a clear advantage in number of bodies.

Unfortunately for the Class 1A Seabury squad, the disadvantage on the bench resulted in a disadvantage on the scoreboard. The Seahawks lost, 68-39, on Thursday at Seabury.

“We have yet to put a complete game together, and for the most part I think it’s due to fatigue with having a really short bench,” Seabury coach Matthew Downing Jr. said. “But it is what it is. We had a really good first half and executed well and ran our stuff and got good shots.”

The Seahawks actually had a 14-7 lead after the first quarter. However, the outside shooting of the Chargers’ Luke Noll, who was 5-for-9 from three-point range in the first half, propelled Jefferson North to a three-point lead heading into the half.

Then came the fatigue factor.

After shooting 71 percent (12-for-17) in the first half, Seabury hit a wall in the final two quarters, making just three of its 25 shot attempts.

“There’s really no explanation for the bad shooting – it’s especially weird because we were hitting so good in the first half,” said sophomore Bill Gibbs, who was the Seahawks’ leading scorer with 16 points. “I don’t know if everybody got cold when the second half came around. But it’s definitely not good when we can’t make shots. That’s how we score points.”

At one point in the third and fourth quarters, the boys went without a field goal for nearly eight minutes before senior Karel Hill knocked in a shot with six minutes remaining. It took Seabury another five minutes to get its final points of the game when seldom-used senior Zach Schmidt came off the end of the bench to hit a three-pointer in the final minute.

Freshman Reed Grabill was the only Seahawk to score in double figures with 10.

The Seabury girls squad shared the same frustration from the field in its 65-12 loss to Jefferson North.

Unable to crack the Chargers’ full-court press early, the Seahawks put up just 34 shot attempts – making six for an 18 percent shooting night – and turned the ball over 26 times.

“They put the pressure on us right away, and we couldn’t handle the pressure, and we turned the ball over,” Seabury girls coach Nick Taylor said. “We didn’t look very good tonight. : Overall, we’re going to have to come out and play a lot harder. We’re not playing at a high level right now. We’re just going through the motions pretty much.”

Taylor said he was optimistic about his offense at times, with the team’s ability to “work the ball side-to-side and got the defense moving a little bit which got us some open looks, and those will eventually go down.”

“I think a lot of the times we get ourselves hurried and maybe get a little afraid of their defense,” said Seabury junior Bria Phipps, who scored 10 of the team’s 12 points. “I really think if we just continue to move our offense around, we will start getting some really good opportunities.”

The Seabury squads will travel to Elwood today before returning to play three home games next week.