North Nodaway’s boys won their first district game since 2016, beating Stanberry 50-30 to start districts Tuesday, February 20th. They built on that and threw a scare into Platte Valley, only trailing by four at halftime before Platte Valley took over the second half to oust the Mustangs.
Aydan Blackford carried the Mustangs on his shoulders like he has all season, getting six of his team’s first nine points and Brice Trimble getting the other three as the Mustangs scored the first nine points of the game.
Stanberry skipper Nick Groomer, who has made a lot of deep postseason runs in his tenure there, didn’t like what he was seeing and burned a timeout less than two minutes into the game and put on the press. But early foul trouble from the Bulldogs and a 3-pointer from Ethan Fry and another inside shot from Blackford gave the Mustangs a 14-0 lead.
The tide was temporarily turned as Bulldog standout Colby McQueen got untracked and knocked down a 3-pointer and Mason Casner came out of the game bleeding as the Bulldogs cut the deficit to 16-3 after one. But Casner came back in the second, and after McQueen cut it to 16-5 and Owen Martin scored off a drive, Casner was on fire for the next stretch, as Blackford’s early outburst had opened looks for everyone else. Casner would go on to score the next seven Mustang points as they took a 25-5 lead at the 1:25 mark of the second quarter.
Stanberry cut the deficit to 26-7 at the half, but then Ethan Fry put a big head fake on a defender and kicked it out to Brice Trimble, who connected from his favorite spot from the baseline. Trimble got an offensive board on his next possession and was rewarded later when Martin got him the ball for another 3-pointer. Mason Casner then hit two straight threes to put the Mustangs up 33-7.
At that point, Groomer had seen enough and started shuttling four in and four out, trying to find a combination of players to play with McQueen. His dramatics evidently woke his players up, as the rest of the supporting cast started contributing and Stanberry was able to hang with North Nodaway the rest of the way, although the margin never got closer than the final score.
North Nodaway kept hitting, and Trevin Wyllie joined Casner in the scoring column and Aydan Blackford’s drive late in the third gave North Nodaway its biggest lead of the night at 46-14.
Mason Casner had 17 points for the Mustangs. Aydan Blackford had 13, Brice Trimble 11, Ethan Fry and Trevin Wyllie 3, Owen Martin 2, and Blaine Clements 1. North Nodaway hit eight 3-pointers for the night.
Brice Trimble and Blaine Clements had 1 blocked shot.
Aydan Blackford had 8 rebounds. Mason Casner had 7, Owen Martin and Blaine Clements 7, Brice Trimble 2, and Ethan Fry and Ridge Clements 1.
Brice Trimble, Aydan Blackford, and Mason Casner had 4 assists. Owen Martin had 3, Ethan Fry 2, and Trevin Wyllie 1.
Brice Trimble had 8 tips, getting a bunch early in the game to knock Stanberry out of its offensive rhythm. Aydan Blackford had 2, and Trevin Wyllie, Ethan Fry, Mason Casner, Owen Martin, and Blaine Clements 1 each.
Brice Trimble and Owen Martin had 2 steals. Mason Casner had 1.
Against Platte Valley, the Mustangs picked up right where they left off the previous game as Brice Trimble hit a baseline three and Mason Casner scored off a drive to make it 5-2. But then the Platte Valley pressure started kicking in and they started taking over, getting points from Brandon McQueen, Alex Mattson, and Tucker Klamm to take back control at 10-5 after one.
For the rest of the half, Platte Valley was seemingly imposing its will on the game and forcing turnovers at will, as the Mustang turnover count reached 13 by halftime. Yet somehow, despite Tim Jermain ranting, raving, working the officials, and benching players, including his best player, Mattson, the Mustangs kept hanging around. Mustang skipper Cody Jenkins, who graduated from Jefferson, had burned three of his timeouts by the early part of the second quarter, and his dramatics seemingly woke his players up.
With the Mustangs trailing 12-7 early in the second and the game seemingly starting to get out of hand, Mason Casner took a charge on defense to spark the Mustangs, which got a drive from Casner and 3-pointers from Ethan Fry and Brice Trimble as they twice got the deficit down to one. But Alex Mattson took the hint from Jermain and started carrying Platte Valley on his shoulders, scoring all nine points to put his team up 19-15 at the half.
The third quarter belonged to Mattson and Platte Valley as the bottom dropped out and they hung 22 points in the third quarter on North Nodaway. Mattson scored 11 points in the third quarter as the lead grew to 41-25 after the third quarter. Platte Valley is one of those teams which comes out strong out of the halftime locker; they would go on to hang 29 on Worth County in the third quarter of their game.
Mattson scored six more in the fourth quarter as Platte Valley kept beating North Nodaway up and down the floor to pull away for the 51-28 win.
For North Nodaway, Mason Casner had 12, Brice Trimble 6, Aydan Blackford 5, Ethan Fry 3, and Owen Martin 2.
Blaine Clements and Jordan DeLeon had 1 block each.
Brice Trimble and Aydan Blackford had 5 rebounds each. Owen Martin had 4, Blaine Clements 3, Mason Casner 2, and Trevin Wyllie and Ridge Clements 1.
Owen Martin had 5 assists. Mason Casner and Aydan Blackford had 2 each, and Brice Trimble and Ethan Fry had 1.
Owen Martin had 4 tips. Trevin Wyllie had 2, and Mason Casner and Brice Trimble had 1.
Ethan Fry and Aydan Blackford had 2 steals each. Brice Trimble and Mason Casner had 1.
The girls did a much better job against Rock Port than in their first game, but came up short 43-39 in the first round of districts after they fell by 20 to them the first time. The Mustangs dug themselves into an 11-2 hole and were still down 15-9 early in the second when Saryn Brown took herself out of the game and threw off her knee brace. She came back and willed her team back into the game, scoring 19 of her 22 points after she took the brace off. They came back to take the lead in the third quarter at 27-25 before Rock Port came back to take a 34-27 lead early in the fourth.
North Nodaway fought back again and this time tied it up with 55 seconds left when Brown hit a 3-pointer, but then Rock Port got an inside look from Avery Meyerkorth with 25 seconds left to break the tie and stole the ball on the subsequent possession and converted it for the four point win.
Saryn Brown had 22 points. Lauren Herndon had 12, Lacy Riley 3, and Lily Blane and Jackie Wray 1 each.
Saryn Brown had 14 rebounds. Lauren Herndon had 10, Angie Parker 7, Addalea Barcus 5, Jackie Wray 2, and Lily Blane 1.
Lauren Herndon nearly had a triple double as she had 8 assists to go with her 12 points and 10 boards. Addalea Barcus had 4 assists, Saryn Brown 2, and Lacy Riley 1.
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