On a night when the Marlboro boys’ basketball team were missing their top offensive threat, the Iron Dukes got contributions from everywhere else.

Three players scored in double figures – two of them off the bench – as the Iron Dukes defeated the Rondout Valley Ganders, 61-51, on Friday night in the Barbara Joyce O’Donnell Gymnasium.

“It’s good because it doesn’t matter where we are, we can get a bucket,” said CJ Faircloth, who came of the bench to score a game-high 26 points. “We know everyone on the floor is capable of making a basket. That will help us and not having my cousin Korbyn (Samuels) and being able to win with a big lead was good. When he comes back, we regroup in practice and work.”

Also, off the bunch, Will Logue scored 10 points. He had previously topped out at about 4 points in a game. Collin Casey, the only starter to reach double digits, had 11 points.

The Dukes had also entered the game being off for nearly two weeks, since their loss to Roy C. Ketcham on Dec. 28. They hit the practice floor hard during that layoff.

“It’s going to make us tough to scout,” Marlboro coach Mike Koehler said. “The fact that we hadn’t played in 13 days made practice great, which is what you need. This time of year, practice can get stale, but practice was really good. This is who I was expecting us to come play.”

Even so, the Iron Dukes were a little slow out of the gate, managing only four points in most of the game’s first six minutes.

But with 2:18 to go in the first quarter, Faircloth put back a rebound, breaking a 4-4 tie and starting his personal 7-0 run to give Marlboro an 11-4 lead after the first quarter.

“We were anxious because we had a 13-day break,” Faircloth said. “All practice. Everyone was going at each other like we were playing games. Coach had us going at each other and it related to what happened on the court today.”

The Ganders came back and tied the game quickly in the second quarter, but the Iron Dukes started getting the offense going late in the quarter.

After the Ganders closed the game to within a point, Faircloth hit on a drive and Logue scored off a rebound to widen the lead back to five points. Logue hit a jumper and then Faircloth knocked down 1 of 2 free throws and the Dukes were back to a 7-point lead again.

“We started figuring out who was knocking down shots and who was feeding them more,” Faircloth said. “We were trying to drive and get points to keep the lead up.”

The Iron Dukes opened a 16-point lead at the end of the third quarter before the Ganders closed the gap to about 10 before the game ended.

Aaron Coston led the Ganders with 19 points and Dylan Dubitsky added 12.

“It was a great team effort,” Koehler said. “Everyone that came in stepped up. It was great.”