Worth County's boys threw a scare into the highly touted Braymer team Friday night before falling by 14, 68-54. The Tigers remain winless on the year following the 14-point loss and a 17 point drubbing by King City Tuesday. Braymer had only lost three games for the year and figured to blow Worth County out of the gym; however, after the Tigers had fallen behind 16-9 late in the first quarter, Brevyn Ross (20 points) shot Worth County back into the game, tying it at 16 with a 3-pointer early in the second. His score off a steal tied it again at 18.
The boys have been playing more and more competitive this past week; however, perimeter defense was a liability. They gave up seven 3-pointers to Reagan Law of King City in the Wildkat loss and then continued the trend of leaving shooters open, giving up consecutive 3-pointers to spark a 10-0 Braymer run that put them up for good although Worth County always kept it close. Chris Alarcon's 3-pointer from the right wing with 3:26 left stopped the run and then Lane Craven's free throws with 40.6 seconds left in the first half brought Worth County back to within three again at 32-29.
Braymer opened the scoring in the second half with yet another long bomb, but Worth County kept in it with a lot of good transition looks as Brevyn Ross and Ben Badell were pushing it up the floor at will. Consecutive 3-pointers from Ben Badell and Brevyn Ross brought Worth County to within one at 42-41 with 2:23 left in the third, but a steal after Worth County had a chance to take the lead allowed Braymer to wrest control and the Bobcats followed up with a 3-pointer to make it 47-41 going into the fourth.
A pair of bad passes that led to easy baskets and another pair of defensive lapses that led to 3-pointers allowed Braymer to take its largest lead of the game at 58-43 before Josh Warner took a charge on defense to finally stop the bleeding. A transition basket from Ross, a coast to coast drive from Chris Alarcon, and a pair of free throws from Alarcon brought the game back to within 64-54, but the Tigers could not get it under double digits.
The girls also lost two during the week and have not been able to catch a break in the schedule as Braymer came into the game with a 10-5 record and a six-foot post player along with a stifling press. The Tigers played two good quarters against the Bobcats, but they had a 9 minute scoring drought as they dug themselves into a 21-4 hole against the Bobcats. They struggled against the press during that stretch, doing too much dribbling and making silly mistakes on the other end of the court. They gave up a 3-point play on one sequence when they forgot that a Bobcat player was sneaking behind them on a free throw situation on the other end; they gave up another free point when they fouled someone with one tenth of a second left on the first half clock 60 feet away from the basket, falling behind 30-10 at the break.
The Tigers were too afraid to attack the six-footer for Braymer and did not go to the basket enough in the first half. They finally got untracked in the second half when they did a much better job of attacking the basket and getting to the rim. Sydney Thummel led the scoring for Worth County with 11 points. Claire Andrews had 9, Kristen Andrews had 6, and Kaitlyn Davidson 4. The Tigers were shorthanded already, playing without Payton Adwell (illness), and went down another player when defensive stopper Danielle Funk rolled her ankle and didn't return.
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