The varsity boys basketball team ended a successful season Tuesday night against the Los Altos Eagles with a  47-59 loss in the CCS Boys Basketball Division II semifinals.

The Bruins trailed behind the Eagles the entire game but managed to reduce the gap in the last quarter.

“We should’ve gone out and shot a little harder,” said junior Vinay Narayanam. “I think we did all we could, and we played hard.”

This was the second time in SCHS’s history that the team made it to the CCS semifinals. Coach Tony McGilvery attributed this success to the team’s “heart,” and not skill.

“The biggest quality of us as a team is how big our heart is and how strong our will is,” McGilvery said. “Skill-wise, we didn’t have any business being here in the semifinals of CCS, but we play hard, we play together, and we never stop fighting, and that won us games; that got us here.”

The team placed third in their division with a record of 7-5.

According to senior Ben Fales, McGilvery told the team that they had the most heart of any of the teams that he has coached.

“In the locker room after the game, he told us that there’s two words here on the board, and those were heart and will, so I think those two are exactly what personify our team,” Fales said.