The Booneville Junior High Lady Bearcats closed out a perfect 3-0 season opening week with a 30-12 win in Waldron Thursday night.
They did so with Evelyn Rogers dominating the inside. The freshman scored 8 first quarter points as the Lady Bearcats built a 13-0 lead.
Rogers had 11 points by halftime and finished the night with 15. With Alycin Pearcy contributing 6 points the Lady Bearcats were up 22-4 at the break.
Waldron 33 Junior High Bearcats 26
Waldron took a game-high 12-point lead just over a minute into the second half but back-to-back 3s by Ayden Rhinehart and Drake Brackney cut that in half.
It was the first of four times the Bearcats, who lost for the first time this season, would get it to a two possession game. The last came on another Brackney 3 that came off an offensive rebound after a free throw miss with 16 seconds remaining.
Brackney finished with 17 points and Cooper Smithson had 6.
Seventh Grade Lady Bearcats 16 Waldron2
Hadley Kimes (shown in a game earlier this week) started the second half by scoring 8 straight points and the Lady Bearcats opened a 14-0 lead, then went on to win by that same margin.
Kimes, who started the scoring in a 6-0 first half, finished with 10. The remainder of the first half lead came on baskets by Sunny Bolinger and Mallorie Nobles.
Waldron 22 Seventh Grade Bearcats 12
Waldron scored the first 9 points of the game and led 12-2 at halftime. Deacon Lunsford had scored the Bearcat points.
Waldron would lead by as many as 13, but settled for a 10-point win after Lunsford hit a 3 with 1:30 to play.
