Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Bloomfield, Missouri – The first game on Monday featured the #14 Puxico Indians and the #5 Saxony Lutheran Crusaders in the consolation game. The Puxico Indians seem to have been the sleeper team of the tournament, quietly winning each of their games and upsetting both the #11 seed East Prairie Eagles and the #5 seed the Saxony Lutheran Crusaders. This definitely will be a team to continue watching this season.
Puxico came out hot and scored in the first few seconds of the game. The Indians jumped out ahead and at the end of the first quarter they were leading 21 – 10.
Saxony fought back opening the second quarter with a bucket, but the Indians of Puxico answered right back with one of their own.
Half time score was 50 – 37 all Puxico!
The Indians had Garrett Payne #14 as their powerhouse player of the game. He scored a team-high 18 points. Seth Luttrull #43 added 15 including two 3-pointers. Austin Teichman shot 5 buckets for 10 points. Corey Pratt added 9 points including a trey and was 4 for 4 at the charity stripe.
Jack Lake # 45 scored a game-high 24 points for Saxony. Zach Beal #3 added 14.
It was all Puxico in the 2nd half as they led 50 – 37 in the 3rd quarter and added another 18 points to seal the win in the consolation game.
Final Score Puxico Indians 68 Saxony Lutheran Crusaders 54
Puxico 21 14 15 18 - 68
Saxony Lutheran 10 16 11 17 - 54
Puxico (68) – Ronnie Wegener 4, Garrett Payne 18, Corey Pratt 9, Austin Teichman 10, Tim Hancock 4, Seth Luttrull 15, Zach Tucker 8, FG 29, FT 7/9, F 18 (3-pointers: Corey Pratt 1, Seth Luttrull 2, Fouled Out: none)
Saxony Lutheran (54) – Zach Beal 14, Chase Steffans 1, Ryan Palmer 5, Taylor Richmond 2, Elwood Voss 2, Hunter Coe 6, Jack Lake 11, FG 24, FT 5/13, F 12 (3-pointers: Ryan Palmer 1, Fouled Out: none)
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Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
St. Louis, Missouri – The Dexter Lady Bearcats traveled to St. Joseph Academy to play Rock Bridge High School out of Columbia, Missouri on Monday. The Lady Bruins are ranked #3 in the stated followed by Incarnate Word #1 and Dexter #2. Dexter fell behind in the first quarter and trailed 34 – 12 at halftime.
The Bruins eventually defeated the ‘Cats 56 – 42. This was the first loss of the season by Dexter; however they played a great game against a 5A school. They are now 10 – 1 on the season.
Six of the girls from Rock Bridge were over 6 feet. Sophie Cunningham, and Kayla Cheadle, and Audrey Holt were 6’1”, Bri Porter stood 6’2” and Cierra Porter and Avery Schroeder stood at 6’4” each.
Sophie Cunningham #3 a 6’1” junior had the game-high points for Rock Bridge. She obtained 19 points total including 1 trey.
Hannah Noe #10 recorded a team-high of 18 points for Dexter including one trey. Erica Cobb #15 added 10 points.
Final Score Dexter Bearcats 42 Rock bridge Bruins 56
Dexter 5 7 12 18 - 42
Rock Bridge 17 17 18 4 - 56
DEXTER (42) - Hannah Noe 18, Dakota Reynolds 6, Alison Jarrell 6, Erika Cobb 10, Paige Patterson 2. FG 14, FT 7/7, F 9. (3-pointers: Reynolds 2, Noe 1, Jarrell 2, Cobb 2. Fouled Out: none)
ROCK BRIDGE (56) - Sophie Cunningham 19, Kayla Cheadle 5, Laurie Frew 1, Audrey Holt 8, Cierra Porter 8, Chayla Cheadle 8, Bri Porter 5, Avery Schroeder 2. FG 21, FT 11/12, F 12 (3-pointers: Cunningham 1, K. Cheadle 1, Porter 1. Fouled Out: none)
DEXTER (10-1) will play at Farmington on Thursday, January 9th. Their next home game is Monday, January 13th against the Kennett Indians.
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.
