Damian Dailey got a double double for North Nodaway’s boys with 16 points and 10 boards, but the Mustangs could not secure a win for coach Cody Jenkins in his return to DeKalb, where he had coached before coming to North Nodaway as the Mustangs turned the ball over too many times (27) and fell 55-44.
Dailey carried the Mustangs on his shoulders early, scoring four quick points. But after high energy player Owen Martin picked up two quick fouls, all hell broke loose and North Nodaway had nobody to match the energy and effort of DeKalb in the first quarter. They threw the ball away against the press, only collected two rebounds for the whole quarter, and found themselves behind 18-8 after one quarter.
Wyatt Miller fueled the Tigers in the first quarter with 6 points and Devin Hall fueled them in the second, getting 8 of their 18 points in the period with Chris Weinmann chipping in with 3-pointers.
The Mustangs finally got someone besides Dailey in the scoring column as Mason Richardson scored off a drive and Ethan Fry added a 3-pointer, but when Hall fueled a late burst by DeKalb, the body language said it all as the players were jogging back on defense by the end of the first half, which found them down 36-13.
The second half was a different story as Mason Richardson hit two free throws, Owen Martin hit a 3-pointer off a pass from Damian Dailey, and Mason went coast to coast after Jeremiah Dobbins blocked a shot to cut it to 36-20. But Hall carried DeKalb on his shoulders again, and by late in the third quarter, the Mustangs were down 46-20 before Dailey scored at the buzzer to make it 46-22.
The fourth quarter was one of the best quarters they had played in the last three years as they started pressing DeKalb back and getting results. Despite Martin fouling out, it didn’t stop the Mustangs as Mason Richardson carried the team with 8 fourth quarter points and Dailey added six more. They still trailed 53-32 with 3:10 left, but then Ethan Fry went coast to coast, Mason Richardson scored twice with his deadly left hand, and Brice Trimble’s three cut it to 53-41 before they ran out of time.
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