Brashear at LaPlata December 11, 2012
The Brashear Lady Tigers and the LaPlata Lady Bulldogs began Tuesday night's game with a lot of tough man to man defense. Both teams struggled to find the basket as they battled to a 5-5 tie after one quarter and with Brashear holding a slim 10-9 lead at halftime. LaPlata's breakthrough came in the 3rd quarter as they outscored Brashear 13-6 to take a 22-16 lead, then held on during a low scoring 4th quarter to win 28-21. Meredith Thomas led Brashear scoring with 9 points, Olivia Thompson had 6, Shelby Salter and Skylar Housman had 2 each, and Allison Thompson and Mandy Taylor scored 1 point each. For LaPlata, MaKay Belt scored 7 points, Morgan Kimmel and Hannah Larson scored 6 each, Sam Jett added 5, and Taylor Snodgrass and Kalie Lene scored 2 points each.
The boy's game started differently as both teams pushed the pace in the early going and traded buckets for the first 5 minutes before LaPlata started to pull ahead to lead 24-15 after one quarter of play. The 2nd quarter was a fairly even match with LaPlata leading 38-26 at halftime. LaPlata got some early scores after the half, and it looked like they might run away with the game, but Brashear battled back and were still within 11 points into the 4th quarter before LaPlata hit a series of 3-pointers in the waning minutes of the game to win by a final score of 75-54. Hayden Housman scored 20 points for Brashear, T.J. Harrelson was also in double figures with 11, Jacob Reeves had 9, Chance Hill had 8, Gabe Thomas had 4, and Jeremy Barnes scored 2 points. For LaPlata, Tanner Riggins scored 23 points, Hunter Howe added 11, Seth Brown had 10, Jace Brown scored 9, Baylon Belt had 8, Matt Safely had 5, Nathan Peterson had 4, and Alek Smith scored 3 points.