LYNN – If anything’s haunted Lynn Tech’s boys basketball team in the past few years, it’s been the Tigers’ inability to hold big leads.So last night, when coach Marvin Avery saw signs that his team might be losing its focus during its 80-47 romp over Swampscott, he immediately called for a timeout and got the players under control.”That’s right,” he said. “I didn’t waste time. That’s one of the things we have to learn to do ? hold big leads.”Click here for a photo gallery from the game.It’s been a problem, even this season when the Tigers couldn’t hold the fort against Minuteman in the first of their two meetings with the Mustangs; and even in the Boverini Tournament, when they had to hold on for dear life to beat Classical after taking a big lead.That wasn’t such a problem last night. The Tigers put the pedal to the medal midway through the second quarter, outscoring the Big Blue 30-16, and kept the pressure on through the second half en route to the win.”We have some depth on the bench,” Avery said, “so we rotate people in and out, and our mission is to wear the other team down by the fourth quarter.”The Tigers accomplished that mission by halftime, as the Big Blue – severely undermanned due to sickness and injury – had a tough time keeping up.”We did some good things early,” said Swampscott coach Paul Moran, “But they just wear you out. We prepared well, and stayed with them for a while. But they’re good. Hats off to Marvin.”It was a 15-point game at the break (41-26) only because of the torrid shooting of Swampscott’s Brian Sullivan, who had all five of his three-pointers in the first 16 minutes, and three of them down the stretch of the second quarter, when Tech was in the process of pulling away.Tech had the answer each time, however, and that was punctuated with a Victor Smith (game-high 24 points) buzzer-beater from halfcourt.Once the third quarter began, however, it was all over but the shouting. After the Big Blue’s Chris Rodenstein got the first bucket of the half, Tech reeled off 16 straight points before Swampscott could respond, and then tacked on five more after that. By the time this assault ended, the lead had gone from 41-28 to 62-30. And everybody on the Tigers got into the act. Josh Cheever scored the first five points, Smith had three, both Gallos – Terrence and Trey – found the net, and captain Lorenzo Rivera had four.The fourth quarter was a game of benches as the teams basically played out the string.Sullivan ended up with 17 points for Swampscott, and Jon Poth had a solid game with 14.Smith’s 24 led Tech, with Trey Gallo netting 10, Garrett Fairweather eight, and four Tigers (Terrance Gallo, Cheever, Rich Warren and Felix Rios) chipping in with six.”We have a big one (today) with Greater Lawrence,” said Avery. “Right now, our goal is to win (the Commonwealth Conference) and go on from there. One game at a time.”