Bourbon Battle

Last Friday our boys and girls went up against Bourbon County in the Shoot for the Cure tournament, making for some tough games.

The games started off at 6 pm, with girls playing first. The first half the girls held on to Bourbon and didn’t let them get too far ahead. At the half the girls were down 18-29.

Right into the first half, Shannon Bretz sinks a 3 point shot followed by a 2 point field goal made by Grace Kiskaden. The girls are still down, 23-32. With 1:15 left in the third quarter, Megan Bretz goes after a pass to a Bourbon County player ad steals it, sprinting down the court and making a 2 point field goal.

The fourth quarter starts out 29-35.

The next big shot was made by Kiskaden making the game 36-49. Also in this quarter, Hannah Stout, one of Bourbon County’s big players, fouls out by fouling Megan Bretz, but didn’t help the Lady Jackets out too much; the ending score was 38-51.

The lead scorer was Megan Bretz with a total of 12 points.

After the game MVP’s were announced, Grace Kiskaden received the award for Nicholas County.

Coming up next, the boys made sure to have everyone on the edge of their seats!

This team of boys came out and played excellent and made good passes. The first half was very upbeat and went by fast. At the end of the half Dalton “Charby” Pope stole the ball from Bourbon County and made a 2 point field goal making the game 29-31.

Beginning the second half, Austin Allison comes right in and sinks a 2 point shot tying the game up, 31 all. The Bluejackets just keep making their shots and defending against Bourbon County real well. With 3:03 left in the 3^rd quarter, Nicholas County is leading 41-33. At one time, the boys caught a rebound from a Bourbon County attempt and passed nice and clean all the way down the court, ending with D. Pope making a 2 point shot, and also making our spotlight play for the game! Jackets were up at the end of the 3^rd quarter, 47-40 after Logan Fryman blocked an attempted shot by Bourbon.

Going into the 4^th quarter, the Jackets were drawing fouls like crazy, when nothing was being called the other way, even obvious fouls against Bourbon County weren’t called. After getting past all the calls, the boys got it tied up to 53. The referees finally called a fouled in favor of Nicholas County with 2:19 left in the game. Howard stepped up to the line and made both free throws, 55-53. Then unexpectedly, Bourbon makes a 3 point shot and the crowd is as rowdy as ever trying to get our boys pumped and to pull through this. Z. Howard is fouled, with 34.3 left in the game, and makes them both! This puts the Jackets in the lead, by one; 57-56. Then, of course, we let Bourbon break right through, making a 2 point shot, then, on the way back down the court, Jordan Bussell was fouled. He made both of the shots, making the game 59-58 with 9.9 left. Bourbon tried to push it down the court but ended up turning the ball over.

MVP of this nail-biter was Logan Fryman.