Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Brosely, Missouri - Congratulations to the Lady Bearcats! It's a 3-peat for Dexter as they defeated the Neelyville Tigers in the Lady Royals Classic Tournament 63 - 34 on Saturday.
This was the third straight year the Lady 'Cats have won the tournament and the second year they competed against Neelyville in the Championship game. Last year they defeated the Lady Tigers 71 - 32.
Hannah Noe #10 had the game-high score with 21 points including 1 trey for the Bearcats. Erika Cobb #15 tallied 15 points and also produced the only other 3-pointer for Dexter. Paige Patterson #22 and Alison Jarrell #12 each added 8 points to the scoreboard.
Shelby Moon and Emily Eaker shared the team-high record with 12 points each. Shelby Moon also tallied 2 treys for the Lady Tigers.
Final score Neelyville Tigers 45 Dexter Bearcats 63
| Neelyville | 7 | 10 | 18 | 10 | -- | 45 |
| Dexter | 16 | 12 | 19 | 16 | -- | 63 |
Neelyville (45) - Shelby Moon 12, Maggie Eaker 3, Jazmyne Smith 4, Emily Eaker 12, Chelsea Petty 4, Christina Russom 1, Riley Washburn 9. FG 16, FT 10/19, F 19. (3-pointers: Moon 2, Washburn 1. Fouled out: none)
Dexter (63) - Dakota Reynolds 6, Hannah Noe 21, Melanie McKuin 5, Alison Jarrell 8, Erika Cobb 15, Paige Patterson 8. FG 21, FT 19/29, F 22. (3-pointers: Noe 1, Cobb 1. Fouled out: Cobb)
The Lady 'Cats will be back in action on Monday, December 30th when they travel to St. Louis to play Rock Bridge High School of Columbia, Missouri. The game will be held at St. Joseph's Academy at 5:00 p.m.
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Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Bloomfield, Missouri – The 57th Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament has been exciting and a few surprises to say the least. The final game of the evening had Bernie fans on their feet. Trailing 54-53 to Hayti Indians and with just a little over 3 seconds left on the clock, Brad Botsch called a time-out. It was strategy time and the Mules knew they would only have one shot at winning.
It was Bernie's ball and once inbound, Caleb Ellenburg #50 hit a jumper at the buzzer for a Bernie win and a trip to the final championship game against Kennett. This is the first time since 2009 that Bernie has had a chance to play in the championship. Final Score 55-54.
“It’s awesome to play for any championship no matter what tournament,” stated coach Botsch. “But there is something special this time of the year to complete in a 16-team tournament and be in the final two. We know we have a huge task in front of us.”
Talk about a nail-biter of a game. It was evenly matched in each of the four quarters. Bernie led the first quarter 16 – 14 and still only by two at the half. The Indians were only able to gain on the Mules by one point in the 3rd quarter, but continued to trail 39 – 38. Each team scored 16 points in the 4th quarter. Making this a very close one point game!
B.J. Jennings #12 had the game-high score of 21 points with all of his points coming from treys, a total of 7 for Jennings. He will be a big threat to Kennett tonight if he continues to shoot from the 3-point line.
Caleb Ellenburg #50 who had the game-winning bucket, tallied 15 points for the Mules.
Jake Wagner #5 had two treys for Bernie.
Demetrius Luster recorded a team-high of 16 points including one trey for the Kennett Indians. He’ll be the one the Mules will have to stop tonight along with Frankie Burden Jr. who tallied 14 points.
Both Cedric Harris and Devan Riddick added a trey each for the Indians.
Final Score #3 Bernie 55, #2 Hayti 54
Bernie Mules 16 13 10 16 - 55
Hayti Indians 14 13 11 16 - 54
Bernie (55) - Jake Wagner 6, B.J. Jennings 21, Bubby Schwent 4, Joey Walker 9, Caleb Ellenburg 15. FG 20, FT 6/8, F 18. (3-pointers: Jennings 7 Wagner 2. Fouled Out: J.R. Pregel)
Hayti (54) - Kenyatte Brooks 4, Devan Riddick 5, Cedric Harris 3, Indaquel Presberry 4, Brandon Burden 8, Demetrius Luster 16, Frankie Burden Jr. 14. FG 21, FT 9/19, F 10. (3-pointers: Riddick 1, Harris 1, Luster 1. Fouled out: none)
Tonight’s game will begin at 8:30 p.m. with the Kennett Indians and the Bernie Mules bidding for the championship and bragging rights as the winner of the 57th Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament.
“Coach Vaughan at Kennett has an outstanding program and he does a great job down there. We know it’s a tall task with the personnel they have. We are going to do everything we can to compete and let the chips fall where they may,” commented Botsch.
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Kennett's Antavies Drake #1 and Materion Jones #34 shared the game-high points, each obtaining 17 total in the game. Each also added one trey a piece. Jones scored all of his buckets in the first quarter except the 3-pointer, which he got in the 4th quarter of the game. Kevonte Mitchell #20 recorded 11 points.
Rantrell Caruthers, Kevonte Mitchell, and Anthony Hawkins also contributed 3-pointers against South Pemiscot. Each player tallied one each.
S. Pemiscot had four players in double figures. Contrell Johnson #34 had the team-high 15 points of which included three treys. Jarvis Johnson #1 contributed 13 points and was 3 for 4 at the charity stripe. Jacob Trammell #15 hit for 11 points including 3 treys and two from the charity stripe. Anthony Primer #12 added 10 points for the Bulldogs
Final Score South Pemiscot 62 Kennett 69
S. Pemiscot 17 19 15 11 - 62
Kennett 24 15 18 12 - 69
S. Pemiscot (62) – Jarvis Johnson 13, Anthony Primer 10, Jacob Trammell 11, Glen Jackson 1, Anton Wilbourn 4, Dashawn Pruitt 8, Contrell Johnson 15, FG 25, FT 6/11, F 13 (3-pointers: Jacob Trammell 3, Contrell Johnson 3, Fouled Out: Anthony Primer)
Kennett (69) – Antavies Drake 17, Rantrell Caruthers 9, Akeem Nelson 6, Kevonte Mitchell 11, Andrew Oliver 6, Anthony Hawkins 3, Materion Jones 17, FG 28, F 15 (3-pointers: Antavies Drake 1, Rantrell Caruthers 1, Kevonte Mitchell 1, Anthony Hawkins 1, Fouled Out: none)
Kennett will play the Bernie Mules on Monday, December 30th at 8:30 p.m. for the championship at Bloomfield.
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Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Bloomfield, Missouri – The Dexter Bearcats and the Twin Rivers Royals went at it again this season. Dexter fared much better than their first encounter with Twin Rivers when they were defeated 53 - 25.
Ethan Flowers # 24 had the team-high 10 points including two treys for Dexter. Ethan is just a sophomore, but he is getting tremendous amounts of playing time. Cole Renken, also a sophomore, tallied nine points. Noah Kronk added 8 and D.J. Dowdy contributed 7. Austin Chesser only scored one time during the game, but it was an amazing 3-pointer.
“We just had a terrible start again,” commented head basketball coach Rob Nichols. “I don’t feel like we played with a whole lot of energy and not a lot of intensity throughout most parts of the game. A team like Twin Rivers is not going to give you too many easy buckets to build that energy so you have got to have that right from the start of the game.
Twin Rivers’ Jase Worley #3 had a game-high 11 points along with Zach Underberg who tallied 10 points.
Twin Rivers led the Bearcats at half 27 – 23.
Final Score: Dexter 42 Twin Rivers 54
Dexter 8 15 10 9 - 42
Twin Rivers 14 13 11 16 - 54
Dexter (42) – Noah Kronk 8, D.J. Dowdy 7, Austin Chesser 3, Ethan Flowers 10, Chandler Young 5, Cole Renken 9, FG 18, FT 3/10, F 16 (3-pointers: Austin Chesser 1, Ethan Flowers 2, Fouled Out: none)
Twin Rivers (54) – Zach Underberg 10, Jase Worley 11, Nathan Watson 5, Chance Wilkerson 5, Andrew Mittlestadt 4, Eric Ray 6, Mason Douglas 5, Seth Snider 8, FG 20, FT 8/15, F 16 (3-pointers: Zach Underberg 2, Jase Worley 2, Chance Wilkerson 1, Mason Douglas 1, Fouled Out: none)
Dexter will be back in action after the New Year when they host Perryville on January 7th at 6:00 p.m. It’s Winter Homecoming!
Twin Rivers will play Bloomfield on Monday, December 30th at 5:30 p.m. for 5th place.
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Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Bloomfield, Missouri – The Green Wave of Malden took the court as the home team in a bid for the 5th place position at the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament against the host team, the Wildcats.
Defensively each team was able to prevent the other from scoring. At the end of the 1st quarter it was tied 7 – 7. Both Malden and Bloomfield defense prevented the other from hitting the buckets.
With just 4 minutes left in the first half it was tied again 15 all. Malden was able to pull ahead and score 12 points while Bloomfield was held to just five. Half time score Malden 27 – Bloomfield 20.
By the end of the fourth quarter and only 4:11 left on the clock it was tied again at 41 all. Malden’s #23 Cortez Dobbins hit a basket to retake the lead.
Malden took the lead when #23 Tim Fox fouled #3 Shaeen Perkins of Malden and got both of this free throws, 43 – 42.
Just under one minute of play left in the game things got real interesting for the Bloomfield squad. Malden was ahead by 2 when Tim Fox of Bloomfield fouled #23 Cortez Dobbins of Malden. He sunk both making it a 49 – 45 game.
With just 8 seconds left, #23 Tim Fox hit a 3-pointer making it 51 – 49 Malden. The Green Wave could not get the ball inbound giving the Wildcats an opportunity to tie the game and they did with just 4.1 seconds left.
It was the first overtime game of the tournament.
Overtime play is 4 minutes in high school basketball. #33 Noah Vandiver for Bloomfield scores first for Bloomfield with a 3-pointer. Bloomfield fans jumped to their feet cheering!
Then Tristan Mitchell #34 scores two for Bloomfield. Malden fouls giving Nathan Newell #21 an opportunity for two at the charity stripe.
It’s 58 – 51 Bloomfield.
Malden returned with one point from the charity stripe making it 58 – 52, but #23 Tim Fox scores again for Bloomfield. Fox goes to the charity stripe two times in a row and makes all four shots.
It 65 – 52. Malden answered with 2 points by #20 Reggie Reed, a 6’ 0” sophomore. The final points of the game from #21 Dremond Robinson at the line when he dropped two free throws.
Final Score 67 – 54.
Bloomfield had four players in double digits. Noah Vandiver #33 had the game-high 22 points including one trey. Tristan Mitchell #34 tallied 15 points and both Nathan Newell #21 and Tim Fox #23 each added 11 points for the Wildcats.
Newell was 11/12 at the charity stripe.
Tim Fox had the only other trey for the Wildcats.
Cortez Dobbins #23 and Shaeen Perkins #3 tied for the team-high hitting 21 points apiece. They were the only Green Wave players to make into the double-digit territory. Both also had two treys each. Willie Ranson #32 also added a 3-pointer.
“It was a whirlwind,” Bloomfield head coach Jason Karnes said of the unlikely comeback in the final half minute. “Timmy stepped up and hit a huge three. The thing about it is we ran the play kind of wrong. He went to the opposite side so we didn’t get it as quick as we wanted, but he stepped up and hit a big shot for us.”
Way to go Wildcats! They will be back in action on Monday, December 30th to play Twin Rivers. Game time 5:30 p.m.
Final Score: Bloomfield Wildcats 67 Malden 54
Bloomfield 7 13 13 34 - 67
Malden 7 20 11 16 - 54
Bloomfield (67) – Nathan Newell 11, Tim fox 11, Tyler Battles 2, Noah Vandiver 22, Tristan Mitchell 15, Austin Bond 2, Alex Gibbs 4, FG 20, FT 25/41, F 19 (3-pointers: Tim Fox 1, Noah Vandiver 1, Fouled Out: none)
Malden (54) – Shaeen Perkins 21, Reggie Reed 2, Dremond Robinson 2, Cortez Dobbins 21, Willie Ranson 4, Trevor Ison 4, FG 18, FT 13/20, F 30 (3-pointers: Shaeen Perkins 2, Cortez Dobbins 2, Willie Ranson 1, Fouled Out: Jeremy Jones)
