Northeast Nodaway's junior high boys overcame a scoring funk and recovered to beat St. Gregory's 28-13 Friday night. They had lost 72-23 to Worth County the night before; sometimes, when losing like that, it takes some time to get your confidence back. Northeast went scoreless in the first quarter, trailing 3-0 to the Falcons before Chance Barber came off the bench to put them on the board with consecutive shots. Northeast and St. Gregory's played evenly the rest of the half and fought to a 9-9 tie. Barber had 4, Spencer Weir and Reed McIntyre had 2, and Dakota Gross had 1.
For Northeast, the focus in the second half was to get shots to fall and to stop Sean Ottman, who had seven of St. Gregory's nine points in the first half. They succeeded in both counts as Ottman was scoreless in the second half. In the meantime, Northeast finally started to find the range from the field; Spencer Weir's 3-pointer early in the period knocked the lid off the basket and set the tone for the rest of the game. Colton Wilmes, Dakota Auffert, and Chance Barber each had 2 as Northeast led 18-10 after three.
Northeast finally pulled away in the fourth after Mason Walk tried to rally the Falcons, cutting their deficit to 20-13 with a free throw with 4:40 left. With Northeast leading 22-13, Nathan Schieber came off the bench to supply the dagger, going coast to coast for a layup. Spencer Weir added a steal off the press and Schieber hit Maverick Price to make it 28-13.
Northeast had a balanced attack for the game. Spencer Weir led the scoring with 9 for Northeast. Chance Barber had 8, Dakota Gross had 3, and Maverick Price, Spencer Weir, Reed McIntyre, and Colton Wilmes all had 2 each as coach Jared Freemyer's troops had seven in the scoring column.
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