Marion County Visits Brashear Tuesday

The Tigers and Mustangs kicked off their seasons at Marion County and met for the rematch in Brashear.

The Brashear Lady Tigers managed to start off their season with a win against Marion County back in November and were hoping for a repeat performance. Getting two wins against a Marion County team that had totally dominated Brashear last season seemed like a tough assignment, but the Lady Tigers were up to the task. Marion County's game plan seemed to be to press hard and run the court for some transition points. Unlike last season, Brashear was able to work through the press and hustled to get back on defense. By the end of the 1st quarter, Brashear had put up a 14-9 lead. Both offenses stalled in the 2nd quarter and Brashear went into half-time leading 18-12. The 3rd quarter continued the defensive struggle started in the 2nd quarter with Brashear leading 23-15 after 3 quarters of play. The scoring drought finally ended in the 4th quarter with Brashear outscoring Marion County 18-9 to cruise to a 41-24 win. Christina Scudder led all scorers with 15 points for Brashear. Kimberly Elsea was also in double digits with 12, Hailee Kelsey had 6, and ChaRae Cole, Jessi Hill, Ashley Clarkson, and Chelsey Collop each had 2 points. Savannah Spratt led Marion County with 9, Taylor Spratt had 6, Heidi Tuley scored 4, Maggie Hastings had 3, and Jenny Mitchell scored 2 points. In an interesting bit of trivia, each of Brashear's starters have been leading scorer at some point during the season. I suspect that very few teams can claim this kind of balanced scoring attack.

The boys game proved to be a very exciting affair with Marion County taking an early 8-2 lead before Brashear battled back to tie the score 13-13 after 1 quarter. The Tigers managed to gain a 27-23 lead by half-time. The two teams continued to battle hard with Brashear maintaining a 41-38 lead after 3 quarters of play. Marion County caught up to the Tigers midway through the 4th quarter and managed to take a small lead with under a minute left. With 30 seconds left in the game, the Tigers were down 47-46. As Brashear worked furiously to regain the lead in that last half-minute, a couple of errant passes led to breakaway layups for Marion County who hung on for a 53-46 win. Top scoring honors for Brashear were shared by Justin Hazen and Kale Watson with 14 each. Andrew Linhart and Jacob Shipman each had 6 points, and Kiley Watson, Ryan Ferdig, and Tyler Killen each had 2 points. Chester Donath had 19 for Marion County, Dakota Bainter had 12, Josh Hagerly scored 8, Josh Mitchell had 6, Nathan Meyers had 4, and Ben Hirner and Justin Tobias had 2 points each.

Brashear will host Atlanta Friday night for homecoming.