Stories from Thursday, February 11, 2016

Tot Diaz scored 17 points to lead Bay past the Marked Tree Junior Lady Indians this past Thursday night in girls' basketball action. Marked Tree jumped out to an early 7-0 lead as MaKayla Marshall hit a jumper in the lane, Taylor McCusiton got a steal and lay up before Shira Hendrix drilled a three-pointer from the top of the key. ...

Bay let a ten point lead slip to two points a little over halfway through the fourth quarter before holding on to beat the Indians in a non-conference game this past Thursday in Bay. Dax Gibson opened the scoring for Bay with a jumper to make it 2-0 only to see AJ Johnson hit two of four free throws on successive trips to the free throw line to make the score 2-2. ...

Marked Tree withstood a late Bay rally to post a 61-54 win in a non-conference game this past Thursday night at Bay. The Indians jumped out to a 3-0 lead with Nick Andrews hitting one of two free throws and Markel Perry scoring off the fast break before Taylor Layne canned a three-pointer for Bay to tie the game at 3-3. ...

Trumann opened the game with a 9-0 run and never looked back as the Junior Wildcats took a 70-18 conference win over the Harrisburg this past Friday night at Wildcat Gym. TJ McGuire opened the scoring for Trumann hitting three of four throws on back to back trips to the foul line to give the Junior Wildcats a 3-0 lead. ...

Trumann broke open a close game in the third quarter on their way to a 57-42 win over Harrisburg in 4A-3 conference basketball action this past Friday night in Trumann. Gavin Casebier scored the first points of the game for Harrisburg with a basket inside as Jay Jones answered for Trumann with an inside basket making it 2-2. ...

Marked Tree (12-8) raced out to a 9-0 lead after the first quarter on their way to a 49-35 win over Rector (8-15) in the opening round of the 2A-3 junior district tournament in Lepanto. AJ Johnson scored the first points of the game as he hit one of two free throws on back to back trips to the free throw line for Marked Tree for an early 2-0 lead. ...

Caroline Morgan hit a three-pointer for Trumann (10-10) at the end of regulation to tie the game and send it to overtime before Tay Smith scored all four points for the Junior Lady Wildcats in overtime as they downed Harrisburg (8-14) 31-29 in 4A-3 junior district tournament action in Highland...

Lady Wildcat Taelor Gartman goes over 1000 points scored in high school basketball career.

Harrisburg (16-8, 8-4 4A-3) got 20 points from Keely Curtis as they beat Gosnell 69-47 this past Friday at Harrisburg. Jessica Webb and Keely Edwards each scored 18 points for the Lady Hornets. Gosnell won the junior high game 24-15. Trumann went on the road to Westside and took a 52-32 conference win from the Lady Warriors. Taelor Gartman led the Lady Wildcats in scoring with 14 points as Hannah Wood added 11 points. Trumann won the junior high game 25-21...

EPC (13-5) and Cross County (7-11) traded the lead all night before the Junior Thunderbirds took a 35-33 lead with 32 seconds left before holding on for the win to advance in the 2A-3 junior district tournament being played in Lepanto. Rayshon Gates got EPC on the board first as he scored off the fast break to make it 2-0. ...

Trumann's Connor Haag signed his letter of intent this past Tuesday to continue his football career at Trinity International Universtiy (TIU) in Deerfield, IL. "I'm excited to be going up there to play. I went for a visit and it just felt like the right place to be. It felt like home and like a good place to play football," Haag said after his signing...