REDMOND — Both the Summit and Redmond boys basketball coaches mentioned the word “composure” following Friday night’s top-10 showdown between two of the top teams in the Intermountain Conference.

Joe Wells was pleased that his team stayed the course in the seventh-ranked Storm’s 58-54 road win over No. 6 Redmond after falling behind early. On the other side, there were a few moments when Reagan Gilbertson wished he and his team had maintained their poise.

“A lot of times you see guys go out and try to hit a 20-point shot when you are down big,” Wells said. “That’s not going to happen. You have to chip away at it. Basketball is a game of runs, and our guys withstood that. And once they got the lead, they held on to it.”

“We had two technicals,” Gilbertson said. “They hit three of those four free throws. That was a big deal and that’s on me. It is a reflection of me, so I need to do something different to not let us lose our heads a little bit.”

Redmond dominated the first half, Summit took control in the second half, and the game came down to the final seconds.

It looked as though Redmond senior guard Ian Pearson, who had 13 points for the Panthers, was going to tie the game with a layup. But Summit senior guard Rowan Blossey blocked the shot, pinning the ball against the backboard to seal the victory for the Storm.

Summit’s defensive plan in the closing seconds was to stick with Redmond’s lethal shooters and not allow the Panthers to get an open look from behind the arc and potentially win the game with a 3-pointer.

Pearson went around a screen and had a clear lane to the basket, but Blossey had recovered from being screened to get to the basket just in time for the block.

“My teammate (Matthew Tompkins) did a great job talking me through the screen and telling me to go over it,” said Blossey, who scored 13 points in the win. “And luckily I was able to get that block at the end.”

The Storm was able to get the rebound, knock down a pair of free throws and escape with a regular-season sweep of the Panthers.

The win for the Storm broke a three-way tie atop the IMC standings. Now, it is just Summit (14-7 overall, 5-1 IMC) and Caldera (15-5, 5-1) sharing the top spot, with Redmond (15-6, 4-2) one game behind with four games remaining.

Summit, the defending Class 5A state champion but with an entirely new lineup and a new coach, is once again in position to win the IMC.

The Storm had gotten the best of Redmond in a Jan. 22 meeting, using a second-half comeback to win 68-58 on its home court. The second matchup would follow a similar script as the first.

Playing on its home court and with Pearson (whom the Panthers did not have in the first meeting), Redmond proved it belongs among Class 5A’s best teams.

The Panthers’ pressing defense created turnovers and easy buckets in transition. The 3-pointers were dropping. At one point in the first quarter, Redmond went on a 15-2 run to take a 17-7 lead.

By the end of the first quarter, senior Jack Snyder had nine of his 17 points and junior Wyatt Horner had seven of his 13 points to help the Panthers take a 23-13 lead.

“We were treating it like a playoff game,” Gilbertson said. “We were prepared, we were ready to go. We came out with a ton of energy and executed our gameplan.”

But there was no panic in the Storm despite falling behind big in the first half, especially after a turning-point in the final seconds of the second quarter. Junior Foster Kettering, who finished with 13 points, got a steal on defense then hit a 3-pointer in transition to trim the Redmond lead to 38-33 by halftime.

“We had the same talks that we had at halftime in both games,” said Summit senior guard Will Manfredi, who scored 16 points. “We had to step up our defense. And we stepped up our defense in the third quarter.”

The third quarter has been a roadblock for the Panthers the past few games, Gilbertson said. After scoring 23 points in the first quarter and 15 in the second, Redmond managed just five points in the third.

“We have been coming out flat in the third quarter,” Gilbertson said. “I don’t know what I’m doing wrong at halftime. Adjustments aren’t being made. (Summit) came out and started making shots, and we turned the ball over in the third. Then we started playing hard again in the fourth. We have to figure out how to put all four quarters together.”

The Storm turned a five-point hole into a five-point cushion by the end of the third quarter. The Summit players had confidence that they could come back from a double-digit deficit. It had only been 23 days since they rallied from being down eight points at halftime in their first matchup with Redmond.

So, even in the moments late in the fourth quarter when Redmond again threatened to take the lead, the Storm knew they could pull out the victory.

“We have been down before,” Manfredi said. “We trust ourselves to come back. Everyone trusts each other to make plays when needed.”

On Tuesday night, Redmond will play at crosstown-rival Ridgeview, while Summit will host Bend High. Both games are scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m.