MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s boys split a pair of contests Monday against visiting Uniontown, while the Wildcat girls went 0-2. IN THE GIRLS A team contest, Uniontown broke open a 4-4 tie with a 6-0 second-quarter run before holding off the Wildcat girls in a 20-16 win.
The boys A team dropped a 39-14 decision, while the B team squad prevailed 27-24 by erasing a 19-12 deficit after the third quarter.
“Our B team had a nice comeback win,” Wildcat head coach Scott Brady said. “We had some injuries tonight, so we had nine or 10 guys to shuffle in and out, but Uniontown was a good team.”
In the B team contest, Justice Pugh led Marmaton Valley with eight points. Trevor Wilson followed with seven and Ethan Tavarez with five. Tony Jefferis, Korbin Smith and Derek Nixon scored two apiece. Noah Foster had a point.
Pugh also led the A team with six points, followed by Nixon with five, Jake Kale with two and Tavarez with one.
“Uniontown had a big height advantage and they used it well,” Brady said. “They were well-coached and had a good feel for the game. Hopefully we get healthy.”
Uniontown edged the Wildcats 13-12 in the B team contest.
“The girls showed a lot of improvement from our last game,” head coach Kim Ensminger said. “Defensively, we held a good Uniontown team to 13 points in the B game and 20 in the A game. Offensively, we are still learning. We are missing our open people inside the paint. We had a lot of good looks.”
Kyla Drake paced the A team with 10 points, followed by Misty Storrer with four and Nalea Alexander with two.
Trinitee Gutierrez scored all 12 of the B team’s points.
The Wildcat B team narrowly missed a shot with under 4 seconds left in the contest that would have won the game.
“Unfortunately, the ball rimmed out,” Ensminger said.
The squads travel to Pleasanton Thursday.
Wildcat squads host Uniontown
