Tyler Schmitz led three Northeast Nodaway boys in double figures with a career high 16 points as the Bluejay boys beat Worth County 59-46 to win their second straight since the Northwest Missouri Tournament and even their record to 5-5. For Northeast, it was a matter of establishing another scoring threat on the floor. For Worth County, while they were able to cut down on the crazy passes that have plagued their play this year and eliminate taking drives that were not there, they have still yet to develop the balanced scoring they need in order to start winning games. Bryce Ross had 22 for the Tigers, followed by Brevyn Ross with 12 and Cole Parman with 7. However, nobody else had more than two for the Tigers. The goal will be to make all five people on the floor a threat to score and hold teams under 50 points.
Worth County was playing better on the floor, but they were not getting any easy looks against Northeast in the first quarter. Consequently, Northeast scored the first 12 points of the game. Tyler Schmitz had four while four other Bluejays contributed two each – Kevin Stoll, Steve Schulte, Shaun Burns, and Aaron Patton. This is exactly the sort of balanced scoring that Worth County has been lacking for most of the year.
Cole Parman finally broke the shutout for Worth County with a 3-pointer and Bryce Ross scored off a pair of free throws before Aaron Patton hit a reverse layup at the buzzer to put Northeast up 14-5 after one quarter.
Bryce Ross finally got going for Worth County, getting a pair of pullups with the taller Kevin Stoll right in his jersey, getting the Tigers back to within 19-11. But then Jason Henggeler hit a pair of free throws and Kevin Stoll scored a putback to make it 23-11 with 3:26 left in the first half as Northeast threatened to make it a blowout. But Brevyn Ross, who had been scoreless up to that point, finally got untracked by going coast to coast for a 3-point play to make it 23-14.
But then Northeast got their big men going late in the half to take their biggest lead at 31-17 so far. Joel Scroggie got a putback and Tyler Schmitz got loose twice. “We knew we had a size advantage, so we worked on our post game a lot in practice this week,” said Coach Chaim Jenkins. He said that Tyler had been one of the hardest workers on his team and that it was finally starting to pay off.
Sage DeLong hit from the right wing to score for Northeast and give them their biggest lead of the game at 33-17, but then Bryce Ross got going for Worth County, hitting shot after shot with Kevin Stoll in his face. Brevyn Ross added a steal as the teams traded buckets for much of the third quarter. Aaron Patton got untracked for Northeast as The General started scoring off drives. Joel Scroggie got loose underneath, Tyler Schmitz scored inside again, and Shaun Burns hit a free throw as Northeast led 44-29 with 1:16 left.
But all of a sudden, Grant Parman scored off a backdoor layup and Worth County put on a press with immediate success. Brevyn Ross got a steal off the press for a layup and then Bryce Ross scored off an Andrew Mullock steal to make it 44-35 at the end of the third.
Bryce Ross opened the scoring with a pullup over Stoll. Aaron Patton got a 4th chance putback for Northeast, but then Brevyn Ross caught them napping and went coast to coast on them; Bryce followed with yet another pullup over Stoll to make it 46-41.
But then Kevin Stoll hit a backbreaker, a 3-pointer, that changed the momentum back in Northeast’s favor. Aaron Patton followed with a fast break. Chris Alarcon hit a free throw for Worth County, but then Steve Schulte threw a breathtaking bounce pass to Tyler Schmitz to beat the Worth County press and Kevin Stoll hit a pair of free throws to make it 55-42 and put the game out of reach for Northeast. Worth County would not get the deficit under double digits again.
Tyler Schmitz led the scoring for Northeast with 16 points. Aaron Patton followed with 14 and Kevin Stoll 11. Joel Scroggie had 8. Shaun Burns and Steve Schulte had 3 each and Sage DeLong and Jason Henggeler had 2 each. That was the sort of balanced scoring that Northeast had that night and that Worth County is still looking for.
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