Bloomfield, Missouri - The Bloomfield Wildcats were at home Friday night as they played host to the Malden Greenwaves.  Coming off a dissappointing loss to the Dexter Bearcats earlier in the week, the Wildcats were anxious to get back on their winning track.

Malden jumped out to a first quarter lead over the Wildcats 16 to 15, led by the Greenwaves' Cortez Dobbins with 4 field goals.  But Zach Baker and Brett Ruch were able to keep the game tight with 5 and 4 points respectively. 

But Bloomfield found an little firepower in the 2nd quarter as Zac Goode lit up the night from 3-point land.  Goode dropped 3 bombs in the basket and a free throw for 10 points in the quarter.  Ruch added 5-points and Thomas Sanders contributed 4-points for the Wildcats giving them a halftime lead over Malden of 37 to 33.

Brett Ruch remained hot in the third quarter putting up another 8-points for Bloomfield extending their lead to 7 going into the final quarter of play.  Unfortunately, the Wildcats hit a wall on their scoring, only able to find 6-points compared to the Greenwaves 13-points.  Malden's Malik Perkins dropped 8-points in the 4th and if you do the math, that was just enough to send this game into overtime.

In the overtime period, Perkins remained hot for the Greenwaves with six more points of his total 23-points on the night.  The Greenwaves outscored the Wildcats 9 to 5 in the OT period to win the game by a final score of 64 to 60.

“Malden made a lot more plays down the stretch than we did, so all the credit to Malden," noted Head Coach Jason Karnes.  "They played a very good game."

That loss drops the Wildcat's record to 8-7 for the season and they will face the Bernie Mules.  Both Bernie and Bloomfield found this past week to be tough with Bernie losing to Caruthersville and Dexter and Bloomfield suffering this loss to Malden and an earlier loss to Dexter.

"We have got to learn to be more consistent for a tough stretch of games coming up for us,” Karnes added.