West Point's Cameron Moore shoots over Good Hope's Matt Cofer during Tuesday's varsity boys quarterfinal. 

HANCEVILLE — Different day. Different venue. Different foe.

Same ol’ winning formula.

Defense, defense, defense.

It’s not winning West Point championships … yet, but it could earn the Warriors one of the county variety if their effort on D switches from streaky to consistently pesky.

The former got the job done in a 45-34 comeback Tuesday night against Good Hope in the quarterfinals of the 2016 Cullman County Basketball Tournament at Wallace State’s Tom Drake Coliseum.

Down 34-28 a shade more than three minutes into the fourth quarter, the Maroon and White (12-10) kicked it up a notch on defense and did enough on the other end of the court to close the contest on a 17-0 run.

Andrew Shaw (3-pointer), Cameron Moore (floater off a rebound) and Brandon Farley (steal and layup) tilted the scoreboard in West Point’s favor, and a swipe and kiss off the glass by Kobe Smith extended the lead to three. From there, the third-seeded Warriors sank 8 of 11 free throw attempts — Tanner Rusk was 6 of 8 on his own — over the last minute and a half to put the No. 6 Raiders out of reach.

“We picked up our defensive intensity and then that was the difference,” West Point coach Randy Jones said. “We got a few turnovers again and it kind of got us going.

“Same ol’, same ol’, same ol’.”

There was definitely a bit of déjà vu for the Maroon and White from not even a week ago. Just last Friday, they came out firing against area-rival Russellville and sleepwalked through the second and third quarters.

The same scenario played out Tuesday, with the Warriors scoring the first 11 points, then leading 14-11 and trailing 20-19 and 29-26 at each quarter break.

For those keeping count, that’s just five and seven points in the middle frames.

Not good.

But nothing yet another strong finish couldn’t remedy.

“I was telling the coaches it was Russellville all over again,” Jones said. “For some reason, we’ve got that lull right in between. We’ve got to get it out of us if you want to win a championship.

“But I’m proud of the guys. They’re finding ways to win. I told them whether it’s pretty ugly, this time of year you just want to advance — and we did.”

Rusk and Shaw accounted for 12 points apiece, all but three of the latter’s from long range. Seth Parker collected eight points, Moore, five; Smith, four; and Alex Hernandez and Brady Kent, two each.

Matt Cofer (11 points and nine rebounds) and Kallen Sharpton (10 and seven) flirted with double-doubles for Good Hope (7-15), which lost a third consecutive game it’d kept close until late.

For Chris Harris, there are only two words to describe the stretch — “that’s youth.”

And with a freshman and three sophomore in the starting lineup, the first-year Raiders coach has plenty of it.

Not that he’s complaining.

“I’m not here for moral victories, but how can you not be happy with their effort,” he said. “They’ve had 15 losses put on them this year and a learning curve, and they come out every night and play their guts out. I’m not going to gripe at that. We’re getting there.”

West Point moves on to the semis, awaiting Wednesday’s winner between second-seeded Hanceville and No. 7 Vinemont. Jones said the Warriors don’t have a preference of which opponent they’d rather meet.

“County tournament, there’s just so much tradition,” he said. “It doesn’t matter who you play. Every game is big. Every game is going to be tough on that floor.”