Stoddard County, Missouri - On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 MSHSAA (Missouri State High School Activities Association) held a seedings meeting to release brackets for the District Basketball Tournaments for Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3 for both girls and boys teams to begin play on Saturday, February 20, 2016.

The Advance Hornets are the #1 seed for Class 1, District 2 boys basketball and Bloomfield Wildcats are the #1 seed for Class 2, District 1 boys basketball.

Here are the announced seedings and current records for Stoddard County Schools.

Class 1, District 2 Boys Basketball

#1 Advance 19-5

#2 Oran 12-11

#3 Bell City 12-9

#4 Risco 8-13

#5 Richland 3-16

#6 Oak Ridge 3-17

#7 Delta 1-19

#8 Fulton School 7-15

Class 2, District 1 Boys Basketball

#1 Bloomfield 20-3

#2 South Pemiscot 18-7

#3 Scott County Central 15-9

#4 Campbell 13-7

#5 Cooter 10-7

#6 Bernie 4-15

#7 Chaffee 6-15

#8 Holcomb 3-16

Class 4 boys and girls will be announced at a later date and will have their own separate article on the ShowMe Times.

Oran, Missouri - The Bloomfield Wildcats traveled to Oran Tuesday evening hoping for their 20th win of the season and they got just that!  Oran attempted a comeback in the fourth quarter, but fell to the Wildcats 65 – 51.

“Oran just wouldn’t go away and we knew they wouldn’t,” stated Bloomfield’s boys basketball Coach Jason Karnes.  “They are well coached, as always, and they got to us the fourth quarter.”

Bloomfield’s Tim Hector drove in 20 points for the Wildcats hitting five 3-pointers.

Nathan Newell contributed 16 points for Bloomfield hitting two treys in the first half of play.

Max Priggel recorded a game-high 21 points for the Oran Eagles with 10 coming in the fourth quarter.

“At this part of the year you sometimes have to find ways to grind out a win, and we are proud of our guys for doing that tonight,” continued Karnes.

Final Score Bloomfield 65, Oran 51

Bloomfield    16    15   17   17  -   65
Oran               6    15     8   22   -  51

Bloomfield (65) - Tim Hector 20, Peyton Bell 7, Nathan Newell 16, Austin Bond 8, Tyler Battles 1,  Noah Vandiver 9, Alex Gibbs 4.  FG 22, FT 13/20, F 17. (3-pointers: Tim Hector 5, Peyton Bell 1, Nathan Newell 2. Fouled Out: None).

Oran (51) - Jacob Shoemaker 10, Max Priggel 21, Preston Hahn 3,Layne Johnson 6, Garrison Mangels 7, Blake Schlitt 4.  FG 17, FT 14/19, F 15. (3-pointers: Max Priggel 2, Preston Hahn 1. Fouled Out: None).

Bloomfield (20-3) will host Holcomb on Thursday evening.  It’s also Homecoming for the Wildcats.  Their Homecoming celebration was postponed due to ice earlier this season.

The Junior Varsity Wildcats (14-7) also won their contest over Oran 52-36.

Dexter, Missouri - For the third time this season the Dexter Bearcats faced the Bloomfield Wildcats in boys basketball.  Dexter won the first two games, but #3 Bloomfield upset the #2 seed 60 - 55 in the semifinal game of the SCAA boys basketball tournament.

"They beat us twice already this season.  It was a great win," commented Bloomfield head boys basketball coach Jason Karnes. "It's hard to beat a good team three times in a row. We are a good team and they are a good team.  We kind of got a hot start at the beginning."

Bloomfield's Austin Bond came out strong in the first quarter hitting three buckets and one trey on his way to an 11 points ball game. 

Noah Vandiver #33 recorded a team-high 15 points including three treys for the Wildcats.

“It’s hard to beat a good team three times in a row,” stated Bloomfield’s senior center Noah Vandiver.  “And we are a good team.”

"We have had some good battles with Bloomfield this year," Dexter head basketball coach Josh Dowdy said.  "I wish Coach Karnes and his kids the best of luck tomorrow night.  They were just the better team tonight."

"Tonight Bloomfield played a more complete game then we did," continued Dowdy.  "They out rebounded us, shot more free throws and overall just played harder."

Senior Bearcat Ethan Flowers had an amazing night with a total of five 3-pointers.  He finished with a game-high 25 points. His biggest quarter came in the third when he scored 16 points.

"Ethan Flowers put us on his back tonight," stated Dowdy.  "He worked so hard on both ends.  You could tell he did not want to play for third tomorrow night."

“We had to foul because of Ethan Flowers. We just had to,” Karnes said.  “He caught fire the second half and we couldn’t give them a chance to set up their play.  As good as he was playing and scoring the ball that second half we just had to foul.”

Only four Dexter players scored during the game.  Gabe Jackson recorded 16 points and was 4/6 at the charity stripe.  Jason Jarrell #11 tallied 10 points all on two point buckets.  Jacob Pedigo #21 contributed 4 points.

"We showed a lot of heart and determination in the second half to battle back and give ourselves a chance to win," Dowdy stated.

“We had to find a way to stay aggressive on the offensive end,” commented Karnes.  “We thought the first two times we played them we just weren’t very aggressive.”

Final Score Dexter 55, Bloomfield 60

Dexter        14  7  21  13  -  55

Bloomfield  22  9  16  13  -  60

Dexter (55) - Jason Jarrell 10, Jacob Pedigo 4, Ethan Flowers 25, Gabe Jackson 16. FG 22,FT 6/11, F 15.  (3-pointers: Ethan Flowers 5, Fouled Out: None).

Bloomfield (60) - Tim Hector 7, Peyton Bell 8, Nathan Newell 6, Austin Bond 11, Tyler Battles 7, Noah Vandiver 15.  FG 21, FT 12/15, F 13. (3-pointers: Tim Hector 1, Austin Bond 1, Tyler Battles 1, Noah Vandiver 3.  Fouled Out: None).

#3 seeded Bloomfield (16-3) moves on to the SCAA Championship game against the #1 seeded Woodland Cardinals on Friday evening.  The Cardinals have never won a SCAA championship game.  For Bloomfield it’s been about 17 years since they took home a trophy and a title.  Both want the same thing, but only one can come out with a win!  Game time is 8:30 p.m.

Dexter varsity will play Advance for 3rd place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

Photo credit to Dee Loflin, ShowMe Times manager/editor.

Dexter, Missouri - The #3 seeded Bernie junior varsity Mules upset the #2 seeded Bloomfield JV Wildcats on Thursday evening at the SCAA JV Tournament in the Bearcat Event Center by a score of 41-37.

Bloomfield's Matt Gibbs was the star performer recording a game-high 14 points.  He hit five buckets and 100% from the free-throw line for an extra two.

Final Score Bernie 41, Bloomfield 37

Bernie  7  9  13  12  - 41

Bloomfield  7  2  12  16  -  37

Bernie (41) - Weston Zoll 8, Ridge Littleton 7, Weston Comstock 8, Alan Pippins 8, Hunter Slavings 7, Josh Ellenburg 4.  FG 18, FT 3/6, F 11. (3-pointers: Weston Zoll 2, Ridge Littleton 1, Alan Pippins 2, Hunter Slavings 1.  Fouled out: None).

Bloomfield (37) - Dalton Phillips 7, Holden Duckworth 4, Carson Blair 9, Wes Schuhart 3, Matt Gibbs 14. FG 14, FT 5/8, F 11.  (3-pointers: Dalton Phillips 2, Carson Blair 1, Wes Schuhart 1.  Fouled Out: None).

Bernie will return Friday night and play #1 seeded Dexter JV Bearcats at 7:00 p.m. for the SCAA JV Championship game.  Bloomfield JV Wildcats will play the Advance JV Hornets for 3rd place at 4:00 p.m. on Friday.

Photo credit to Dee Loflin, ShowMe Times manager/editor.

Dexter, Missouri - The #3 seeded Bloomfield Wildcats eliminated the #6 seeded Puxico Indians in Game #6 of the Stoddard County Athletic Association varsity boys basketball tournament on Tuesday evening at the Bearcat Event Center.

The Wildcats more than doubled their opponents points recording 7 buckets and one from the charity stripe to lead 15-7 at the end of the first period. It was all net for Bloomfield's offense as they continued their scoring run in the second quarter to build a 16 point lead going into the locker room at halftime. The third and fourth quarters proved to be more of the same for Bloomfield, but Puxico seemed to be more evenly matched on offense in the second half.  Final score Bloomfield 71, Puxico 51.

Tim Hector hit a trey early in the 3rd quarter to keep the momentum going.  Alex Gibbs had his best showing in the 3rd quarter recording 6 of his 8 points for Bloomfield.

There were four Wildcats  in double digits.  Peyton Bell #11 tallied a team-high 13 points.  Nathan Newell #21 recorded 12 points.  Tyler Battles #32 contributed 11 points including a 3-pointer and Austin Bond #25 finished with 10 points.

Puxico's Levi Woods #1 could not be stopped tonight; however it was not enough to propel Puxico to a win. He had a game-high 22 points completing 9 of 11 at the charity stripe and one trey.  Dalton King #25 finished with 17 points including one 3-pointer.

Final Score Bloomfield 71, Puxico 51

Bloomfield  15  19  14  23  -  71

Puxico          7  11  10  23  -  51

Bloomfield (71) - Tim Hector 3, Caleb Pulley 2, Peyton Bell 13, Nathan Newell 12, Kyle Anderson 2, Dallas Monroe 2, Joe Clary 3, Austin Bond 10, Tyler Battles 11, Noah Vandiver 5, Alex Gibbs 8.  FG 27, FT 14/25, F 17.  (3-pointers: Tim Hector 1, Joe Clary 1, Tyler Battles 1, Fouled Out: Caleb Pulley).

Puxico (51) - Levi Woods 22, Austin Denny 1, Shayne Haynes 3, Chris Siler 4, Dalton King 17, Jordan Burch 4.  FG 17, FT 14/18, F 22. (3-pointers: Levi Woods 1, Shayne Haynes 1, Dalton King 1.  Fouled Out: Chris Siler).

Bloomfield (15-3) will face-off with the Dexter Bearcats (8-8) for a third time this season.  Do they have what it takes to beat their neighbor?  Come out and watch the game on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Bearcat Center to find out who wants to go to the Championship round the most!!