South Pemiscot, Missouri - The Bloomfield Wildcats easily secured their first win of the Class 2, District 1 boys basketball tournament on Saturday.  The Wildcats defeated South Pemiscot 64-35.

Timmy Hector had a game-high 22 points for the Wildcats. 

Below are the box scores for Bloomfield and South Pemiscot as submitted information.

Bloomfield    9  18    21 16 - 64
South Pem.  6    6    15   8 - 35

Bloomfield(15-11)
D. Phillips 3(0) 2-2 8, T. Hector 6(3) 1-1 22, Anderson 6(0) 1-4 13, M. Gibbs 1(0) 1-4 3, Bell 2(1) 9-10 16, Monroe 1(0) 0-0 2, A. Gibbs 0(0) 0-4 0. Totals 19(4) 14-25 64.

South Pem.
Smith 1(0) 0-0 2, Burton 3(1) 2-4 11, Dameworth 2(2) 2-2 12, Mullen 0(1) 0-0 3, Johnson 0(0) 1-2 1, Johnson 1(0) 1-1 3, Herron 1(0) 1-3 3. Totals 8(4) 7-12 35.

Playing in the Class 2, District 1 Boys Basketball  #1Hayti, #2 Bernie, #3 Puxico, #4 Bloomfield, #5 South Pemiscot, #6 Campbell, #7 Senath-Hornersville, and #8 Holcomb.

Hayti defeated Holcomb 73 - 41, Bernie defeated Senath-Hornersville 59 - 40, and Campbell beat Puxico 70 - 54.

Bloomfield (14-11) will play Hayti (16-11) at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21st in a semifinal game.

Bernie (14-12)  will play Campbell (15-9) at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21st in the other semifinal game.

Thursday, February 23rd at 7:30 will be the Championship game for Class 2, District 1 boys basketball.

Photo is from the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament earlier this year.

Bloomfield, Missouri - The 2017 SCAA All Tournament Team was announced after the championship game on Friday, January 27, 2017. Twelve athletes from five different teams were named.

Cole Nichols, Bell City

Bloomfield, Alex Gibbs

Bloomfield, Peyton Bell

Bloomfield, Tim Hector

Bernie, Nate Dillinger

Advance, Armani Vermillion

Advance, Dawson Mayo

Advance, Preston Wuebker

Dexter, Ben Sindle

Dexter, Clay Mullins

Dexter, Gabe Jackson

Dexter, Jason Jarrell

Bloomfield, Missouri - The Dexter Bearcats tallied 12 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to defeat the Bloomfield Wildcats in a semifinal match-up on Thursday evening. 

Clay Mullins finished with a game-high 16 points on six buckets and was 4/11 at the charity stripe.

Jason Jarrell and Ben Sindle recorded 12 points each.  Sindle tallied 4 treys.

Bloomfield paced Dexter in the first three quarters.  They were tied 12-12 at the end of the first and 20-20 at the end of the first half.  Dexter led by 3 at the end of the third.  It was the fourth quarter that Dexter pulled ahead scoring 12 points and finally finishing the game 55 - 42 putting them in the Championship seat on Friday night against the #1 seed Advance.

"That few minutes there was the only part of the game that looked like a basketball game," commented head coach Josh Dowdy.  "Other than that it was a tug-of-war all night long."

Peyton Bell led Bloomfield with 11 points.  He recorded three 2-pointers, 1 trey, and was 5/8 at the free throw line.

Final Score Dexter 55, Bloomfield 42

Dexter         12   8   16  19  -  55

Bloomfield   12   8   13    9  -  42

Dexter (55) -Jason Jarrell 12, Ben Sindle 12, Clay Mullins 16, Dawson Kasting 9, Ryan Mayo 2, Gabe Jackson 4.  FG 21, FT 9/21, F 16. (3-pointers: Ben Sindle 4, Fouled Out: None).

Bloomfield (42) - Timmy Hector 8, Kyle Anderson 8, Matt Gibbs 7, Austin Phillips 3, Peyton Bell 11, Alex Gibbs 2.  FG 15, FT 9/16, F 19. (3-pointers: Timmy Hector 1, Austin Phillips 1, Peyton Bell 1. Fouled Out: None).

Dexter (13-5) will face Advance in the Championship game at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, January 27, 2017.  The Bearcats' last SCAA Championship win was in 2012.  Advance hasn't won the tournament since 1978.

Bloomfield will play Bernie for 3rd Place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

Bloomfield, Missouri - With the JV portion of the SCAA boys basketball Tournament underway the Bloomfield Wildcats earned another notch in the win category defeating the Wooodland Cardinals 53 - 40.

They started off evenly matched as it was tied 8-8 at the end of the first quarter.  Bloomfield Micael Phillips hit a 3-pointer early in the first period.  At the half Bloomfield led 22 - 12.

Sophomore Travis McCullough led the Wildcats with a team-high 11 points.  He sank three 3-pointers and one field goal.

Gage McNeil also a sophomore recorded double digits as well finished the night with 10.

Karson Skiner led Woodland and was the game-high scorer with 16 points.  He recorded one trey.

Final Score Bloomfield JV 53, Woodland JV 40

Bloomfield   8   14   18   13   -  53

Woodland    8     4   15   13  -  40

Bloomfield JV (53) - Wes Schuchart 1, Macael Phillips 7, Brock Ruch 7, Carson Blair 6, Gage McNeil 10, Brandon Wright 7, Travis McCullough 11, Morgan Christian 2, Laine Parker 2. FG 21, FT 4/8, F 12. (3-pointers: Micael Phillips 1, Brandon Wright 2, Travis McCullough 3.  Fouled Out: None).

Woodland JV (40) - Carter Mayfield 5, Blake Matheney 6, Wyatt Allen 7, Karson Skinner 16, Mason Dowd 4. FG 16, FT 3/8, F 9. (3-pointers: Carter Mayfield 1, Blake Matheney 2, Wyatt Allen 1, Karson Skinner 1.  Fouled Out: None).