Marv’s Friday Sports

AT THE CONWAY TOURNAMENT THURSDAY, THE AURORA HOUNDOGS, AND LAQUEY HORNETS WENT AFTER IT IN THE FIRST OUTING, AND THE HOUNDOGS HAD THEIR WAY WITH THE HORNETS IN A 73-48 VICTORY..
JASON YOUNG LED THE TEAM WITH 18, JAYDEN BELL ADDED 10 AND MASON SHAW WAS A BUCKET SHY OF LAQUEY HAVING 3 IN DOUBLES…..LAQUEY COACH DUSTIN MATLOCK SAID, “Guys played hard, but we have to get better defensively and on the boards.”

THE 2ND GAME, FROM THE WINNERS SIDE, SAW STRAFFORD KNOCK OFF HOUSTON, 52-35 BEFORE HOLLISTER UPSET TOP SEED CONWAY 59-50…..
THAT MEANS 4TH SEED HOLLISTER AND 2ND SEED STRAFFORD MEET FOR THE TITLE TONIGHT AT 8:30
HOUSTON AND HOLLISTER PLAY FOR 3RD AT 7…
LAQUEY PLAYS FOR 7TH AT 4 THIS AFTERNOON….. THEY GET THE NIANGUA CARDINALS….
STOUTLAND HANDED THE CARDINALS A 69-42 LOSS LAST NIGHT BEHIND ZANE HODGES 33 POINTS…
STOUTLAND-AURORA FOR 5TH TONITE AT 5:30

89TH ELDON TOURNAMENT, TWO WINNERS BRACKET GAMES THIS EVENING..
NO. 4TH SEED WILL PLAY THE 2 SEED FOR THE TITLE ON SATURDAY……

TOP SEED EUGENE TOOK ONE ON THE CHIN YESTERDAY WHEN THE FATIMA COMETS HANDED THEM A 70-62 UPSET IN ONE OF THE WINNERS BRACKET SEMI-FINALS……
IT WAS CLOSE TO PAIR OF UPSETS LAST NIGHT…..
THE 2 SEED SMITH COTTON TIGERS EDGED OUT 3RD SEED IBERIA, 71-68 IN A THRILLER….
ZACH VOSS AND GABE PLEMMONS HAD DOUBLE DOUBLES FOR THE RANGERS, JAKE WHITTLE WAS CLOSE.
VOSS ENDED WITH 29 POINTS AND 10 REBOUNDS, PLEMMONS PULLED DOWN 12 BOARDS AND DRAINED 10 POINTS…
ISSACE LAWSON, WADE BOND, AND JAKE WHITTLE EACH HAD 8, WITH WHITTLE PULLING DOWN AS MANY BOARDS…
THE 11 AND 4 RANGERS GET EUGENE SATURDAY AT 5:30 FOR 3RD PLACE AT THE ELDON TOURNAMENT

AT THE RUSSELLVILLE GIRLS TOURNAMENT……
WINNERS SEMI’S LAST NIGHT, AND TOP SEED EUGENE WILL GO FOR THE TITLE AFTER THEIR 54-46 VICTORY OVER THE IBERIA LADY RANGERS…
THIS WAS CLOSE, WIRE TO WIRE BETWEEN THE 1 AND 4 SEEDS….
IBERIA LED 17-14 AFTER THE FIRST QUARTER AND BY 5 AT THE HALF…..EUGENE TRIMMED THE DEFICIT IN THE 3RD AND ENTERED THE 4TH TRAILING BY A SHOT FROM DOWNTOWN…..THE FINAL FRAME WAS THE KILLER FOR THE LADY RANGERS…THEY ONLY MANAGED 2 POINTS WHILE EUGENE TOSSED DOWN 13 WHICH WAS PLENTY FOR THE “W”……..
PAIGE SPENCER HAD 16 POINTS AND WAS A REBOUND SHY OF A DOUBLE-DOUBLE….
LANEY HALLEY WAS 1 POINT AND 1 BOARD AWAY FROM ANOTHER DOUBLE-DOUBLE….
THE LADY RANGERS GET TUSCUMBIA ON SATURDAY FOR 3RD PLACE…
TONIGHT, CALVARY LUTHERAN GETS VERSAILLES IN ONE CONSOLATION SEMI AT 6.
VIENNA AND BELLE PLAY IN THE OTHER AT 7:30…..

THE MID-MISSOURI BANK, I-44 LADY’S CLASSIC GIRLS TOURNAMENT IN LEBANON IS UNDERWAY TODAY THRU SATURDAY WITH 4 GAMES STARTING AT 4:30 WITH THE LAST ONE TIPPING AT 9 TONIGHT..
TEAMS COMING IN FROM BOTH THE KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS AREAS…..
THE RICHLAND LADY BEARS ARE ON THE TOP OF THE BRACKET AND HAVE THE FIRST GAME TODAY AGAINST LEE’S SUMMITT WEST..GAMES RUN IN 90 MINUTE INTERVALS….
LEBANON TAKES ON ST. CHARLES WEST AT 6..
WALNUT GROVE FACES TROY AT 7:30 WITH PARKWAY NORTH AND BELTON HOOKING UP AT 9….
GAMES CONTINUE AT THE SAME TIMES TOMORROW WITH THE TROPHY GAMES STARTING AT 11 AM ON SATURDAY WITH THE 7TH PLACE GAME FIRST…

CROCKER 44-33 OVER STOUTLAND

THE CROCKER LADY LIONS SPOILED THE HOME COOKIN’ AT STOUTLAND LAST NIGHT IN A 44-33 PHYSICAL FRISCO LEAGUE BATTLE…A QUICK START FOR STOUTLAND WITH AN 11-2 RUN IN THE FIRST DIDN’T LOOK GOOD FOR THE LADY LIONS, BUT THEIR BATTLE BACK ATTITUDE WON OUT WITH A 14-4 RUN IN THE 2ND MADE THIS 16-15 GAME AT THE HALF…CROCKER WENT UP BY 17 IN THE 3RD, BEFORE STOUTLAND CAME BACK, BUT THEY COULD NOT ERASE THE LARGE DEFICIT AND FELL BY 11….
CROCKER’S STARTING 5 AND THEIR BENCH WERE MORE THAN THE LADY TIGERS COULD HANDLE IN THE END.
SKYLAR LAYMAN LED THE LADY LIONS WIOTH 14. MARIAH DEAN ADDED 12 AND MEGAN BECKER HAD 11…..
STOUTLAND COACH KIETH GLEN SAID WE WERE OUTHUSTLED, OUT-REBOUNDED AND OUT-COACHED…
THE STOUTLAND COACH ALSO LAID A LITTLE PRAISE ON HIS OPPONENT…”Morgan Walls timely shooting and Mariah deans dominance both inside and outside plus the rest of the starting cricket five played exceptionally well.”
CROCKER COACH RICH MUELLER PRAISED BOTH TEAMS, SAYING, STOUTLAND PLAYED A HARD FOUGHT GAME, AND WE SHOWED THE FIGHT TO BATTLE BACK…
BREE SEIN LED STOUTLAND IN SCORING WITH 13..MELANIE HUBBS ADDED 12…..

DIXON 58-53 OVER LAQUEY

BROOK SINCLAIR OF THE DIXON LADY BULLDOGS PUT THE TEAM ON HER SHOOTING SHOULDERS LAST NIGHT AND LIT UP THE LAQUEY PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACILITY FOR 37 POINTS, AND SPOILED A BID BY THE LADY HORNETS TO COME UP WITH A FRISCO LEAGUE WIN WHEN DIXON OUTLASTED LAQUEY 58-53….
TIED AFTER ONE, LAQUEY LED 19-17 AT THE HALF BEFORE DIXON OUTSCORED LAQUEY BY 6 IN THE 3RD AND TOOK THE LEAD, AND ADDED A 3 POINT MARGIN IN THE 4TH FOR THE WIN…..
BESIDES SINCLAIR’S 37, DIXON’S CLOHE IRVIN HAD 13.
LAQUEY HAD A NICE BALANCE WITH LEXI CRESSEL DRAINING 17, BRYER SAYER HAD 13, AURORA RICE DROPPED IN 11 AND ACACIA RICE WAS A POINT SHY OF 4 IN DOUBLES FOR LAQUEY…..

LICKING 64-29 OVER SALEM

IN A MAKE UP FROM LAST FRIDAY’S SNOW JOB, THE LADY WILDCATS OF LICKING WON THEIR 14TH OF THE SEASON AND HAD THE TURBO CLOCK TICKING ON NEIGHBORING SALEM, 64-29…
IT WAS 14-4 AFTER ONE, LICKING DOUBLED UP SALEM, 28-14 AT TEH HALF AND LED BY 28 AFER 3….
LICKING WAS LED BY ABBIE SULLINS LED 4 IN DOUBLES FOR THE LADY WILDCATS WITH 17….KYLIE TAYLOR HAD 15. KARLEE HOLLAND AND ABBY MONCREIF EACH ADDED 12…. LHS MOVES TO 14-5 WITH THE WIN.

ON THE MATS….IT WAS SHUT OUTS-VILLE IN THE TRIANGULAR WITH RAY-PEC AND CARTHAGE LAST NIGHT FOR THE WINNERS…
CARTHAGE SHUT OUT THE TIGERFS, 63-0..
CARTHAGE SHUT OUT RAY-PEC 48-0…
RAY-PEC SHUT OUT WAYNESVILLE 40-0…
NICE NIGHT FOR THE WINNERS, NOT SO FOR THEIR OPPONENTS…AND HOW GOOD IS CARTHAGE…..