WALKER, GARCIA HAVE BIG FOURTH QUARTERS IN JUNIOR HIGH WINS

Fourth quarters offensive outbursts by Chloe Walker and Edwin Garcia led the Junior High Lady Bearcats and Bearcats to wins over Cedarville Thursday night.

Walker had 2 points going into the final quarter when the Lady Bearcats held the slimmest of leads at 16-15. She finished with 9.

Walker scored three times on putbacks and later added a free throw that helped the Lady Bearcats beat the Lady Pirates for the second time.

Kaity Green had a basket in what would be a 9-0 run when Walker added the free throw to make it 25-15.

The Lady Bearcats (9-6) had led 12-7 at halftime as, with what would be a team leading 10 points, Alycin Pearcy accounted for all Lady Bearcat scoring except a basket by Walker.

In the boys game Cedarville built a 25-18 lead with 2:23 to go in the third quarter.

A pair of free throws and a 3 by Drake Brackney (shown( cut the deficit to 2 and a free throw by Sadler Miller and basket by Callen more than offset a Pirate free throw and it was tied at 26-26 with 4:15 to play.

After Cedarville scored to go back in front Garcia scored 5 points in a span of 23 seconds by hitting a 3 then recording a steal and layup to make it 31-28 with 2:32 to play.

Though it was merely by one point for well over a minute, the Bearcats (13-4) would not trail again as free throws by Montalvo and Brackney kept them in front.

After Cedarville got within 35-32, a free throw by Garcia with 19.4 seconds to go gave him 6 points and extended it to a two possession game.

The junior high teams will next play Saturday in the Opal Pistole tournament at County Line with the Lady Bearcats playing Paris in a third place game at 11 a.m. and the Bearcats also playing Paris in the championship game of the tournament at 12:15 p.m.

Seventh Grade

Colt Whitehouse scored 9 points to help the Bearcats win their final home game, 27-16.

The Lady Bearcats fell 13-9. Sophie Shaffer, Tatum Brackney, and Trinity Martinez equally participated in the scoring with each hitting one free throw and scoring once form the field.