Portageville, Missouri - The Bloomfield Wildcats traveled to Portageville Tuesday evening to take on the Bulldogs.

"I thought we competed and battled against a tough Portageville team tonight with out a couple of guys in the line up," commented Jason Karnes, Head Basketball Coach for Bloomfield.

Caleb Baker, #2 for the Wildcats had a very frustrating night with Portageville continuously fouling him.   He scored 21 points with 9 points coming from field goals.  He did an awesome job keeping his cool and hitting the basket.

Zach Goode, #4 stepped into action for the Wildcats as he had 17 points of which four were 3-pointers.  He too was fouled a few times hitting adding 5 field goal points.

Thomas Sanders, #24 was also in double digits for the Wildcats.  He scored 12 points including two 3-pointers and four field goals.

Karned continued to say that, "Portageville did a good job of speeding us up and we had trouble adjusting to it." 

This game could be called a game of field goals and field goal attempts with 49 field goal attempts made, 32 points were made from the line.  The Wildcats were able to capture eighteen points off of their 30 attempts while Portageville making fourteen of their nineteen attempts.

Coach Karnes stated, "Proud of my guys for the effort and toughness they played with, but we still didn't get the job done.  Got to get back at it tomorrow to prepare for a very good Advance team."

The final score was Bloomfield 54, Portageville 63.  The Wildcats are 12-13 on the season.

The JV Wildcats did not fair any better than the varsity team on Tuesday night as they lost to Portageville 49 to 45.  Noah Vandiver had a pretty good night with 26 points followed by Nathan Newell with 8 and Tyler Battles with 6 points.  The JV Record is now 15-8.

The Wildcats are competing at home on Thursday, February 14th against Advance.   Game time 6:00 p.m.  The Hornets are looking for a win as they just lost to Oran on Tuesday.  Advance is 5-1 in their district and 18-7 for the season.