High School Roundup: Cats take second at Christmas tournament

Published 7:00 pm Wednesday, December 20, 2017

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BOYS BASKETBALL

• Sparkman (Ala.) 54, Dalton 35: Dalton reached the championship round of its home tournament, but couldn’t generate enough scoring to keep pace with Sparkman High School.

The Catamounts (6-4) were outscored in all but one quarter in the loss and were behind 29-19 at halftime.

Hunter Brummel, Aaron Fraire and Jalen Westfield each finished with six points. Nasir Love-Porter scored five.

• Northwest Whitfield 77, Asbury (Ala.) 44: The Bruins built a 26-11 lead after one quarter and cruised to the win at the North Murray Mistletoe Madness. Blaine Greene led with 14 points and Chris Cunningham scored 13. Northwest is now 5-4.

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“We’re a little bit bigger than that team,” Northwest coach Ryan Richards said. “I knew they could shoot it really well. I was challenging them to come out and play hard and not let their size bother them thinking it’s going to be easy. I think we showed a lot of maturity coming out and playing strong.”

• LaFayette 66, Coahulla Creek 60: After falling down early after a barrage of 3-pointers, Coahulla Creek fought back, but ran out of time on Tuesday night, falling to 3-6 on the season.

After being down 15-14 after the first quarter, LaFayette hit 9 of 17 3-pointers in the second half to push the lead to nine at the half. The Colts were able to limit them to just 3 of 8 shooting from deep in the second half after putting an emphasis on perimeter defense.

In the fourth quarter, senior Maddox Adams took over, scoring 12 points to help the Colts cut the lead, but the comeback fell short.

Adams finished with 21 to lead all scorers and Eli Turso finished with 10.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

• Towns 61, Southeast Whitfield 43: The Lady Raiders fell to 2-8 on Tuesday night with a loss to Towns High School.

McKenna Lentych led the Lady Raiders (2-8) with 17 points, seven rebounds and five steals. Lauren Allen added 12 points and Jasmin Herrera added five steals and five assists.

Sidney Swantic added six steals while Brooke Taylor grabbed six rebounds.

• North Murray 66, Murray County 54: No details from this game were reported to the Daily Citizen-News.

JV BOYS BASKETBALL

• LaFayette 35, Coahulla Creek 31: The Colts fell to LaFayette on Tuesday night. Fernando Sanchez finished with 11 points.

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