Dexter, Missouri - The SCAA Boys Basketball Tournament continues on Tuesday evening with the #4 seeded Puxico Indians taking on the #5 seeded Bloomfield Wildcats. It was a close game in the first quarter as they tied 14-14. At the half the game was close Puxico 33, Bloomfield 29. It was the 3rd period that the Indians came alive and held the Wildcats to just 13 points while Levi Woods scored 14 points.
Woods recorded a game-high 33 points and the most in the tournament thus far. He had 12 buckets and two treys and was 3 for 3 from the charity stripe.
Dalton King tallied 23 points on four buckets and five 3-pointers for the Indians
Braiden Jones finished with 10 points, two buckets and two 3-pointers.
Carson Blair tallied a team-high 19 points for Bloomfield. He recorded 5 treys, two in the first quarter, on ein the third and two in the fourth period.
Peyton Bell finished with 16 points on five buckets, one 3-pointer and was 4 for 4 from the charity stripe.
Final Score Puxico 83, Bloomfield 62
Puxico 14 19 28 22 - 83
Bloomfield 14 15 13 20 - 62
Puxico - Levi Woods 33, Braiden Jones 10, Dalton King 23, Brady Hart 2, Brent Geohagan 9, Matt Bollinger 6. FG 35, FT 3/4, F 15. (3-pointers: Woods 2, Jones 2, King 5, Geohagan 1. Fouled Out: None)
Bloomfield (62) - Dalton Phillips 8, Travis McCullough 6, Carson Blair 19, Malik Williams 4, Michael Phillips 6, Peyton Bell 16, Ethan Pennington 2. FG 23, FT 6/12, F 8. (3-pointers: Phillips 1, Blair 5, Phillips 1, Bell 1. Fouled Out: None).
#4 Puxico will play #1 Dexter on Thursday, January 25th at 7:00 p.m. at the Bearcat Event Center in semifinal action of the 53rd Annual SCAA boys basketball tournament.