The Riddell brothers have a long history of playing winning basketball for the Saint Francis basketball program.

Max Riddell was an excellent all-around, tenacious player, Jack Riddell was a sharpshooter who gunned his way to a Standard MVP title in 2016 and Sam Riddell wrote the latest chapter in his family’s basketball lore Friday night at St. Catharines Collegiate with a timely performance in the Phoenix’s 53-42 victory over the Governor Simcoe Redcoats in the championship game of the 61st Standard High School Boys Basketball Tournament.

The Grade 11 player was named his team’s Cat’s Caboose Player of the Game with a team-high 14 points but it was his performance in the fourth quarter that stood out.

The Redcoats had cut Saint Francis’ lead to 41-37 from 41-34 with less than four minutes left in the game when Riddell hit a pair of back-to-back, clutch three-pointers to give the Phoenix a much more comfortable 47-37 lead that they would not relinquish.

“That’s why he is in the game because I know that is what he can do,” Saint Francis head coach Rich Alderson said. “I have coached him for the last three years now and I have all the confidence in the world that Sam is going to shoot us out of a lot of trouble and he did it again today. He’s Big Shot Sam.”

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