Outside The County-Maconaquah

Results from Maconaquah for Wednesday, December 27th & Thursday, December 28th

Boys Varsity Basketball beats Miami County Tourney v. Caston 78 – 56

The Braves beat an improving Caston team to advance to the finals against Peru.The Braves improve to 6-2 on the season. The Championship game will be at around 8pm tonight.

Coach Burrus Quotes: “We had to get back to playing again. It took a while to get going.I thought we played better as the game went on. We also won every quarter. Our defense forced 26 turnovers which was a key in this game. I would like to give Caston credit. They made us work to score. They were prepared for us. This was a good game for us to get into tournament play, advance, and be ready for the championship tonight.

The game tonight offers a different challenge. We are playing Peru at home. Peru is very good again this year and always tough at home. This championship game should be an exciting game.”

Let’s Go Braves!!!

Ball 34pts

Kelly 19pts

Kile 12pts

Zeiser 7pts

Miller 2pts

Ellis 2pts

Adams 2pts

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Lady Braves falls to 1A #2 Caston 48 – 40

The Lady Braves open the Miami County Tourney against 1A #2 Caston at Peru. In the first quarter both teams were trying to find their way on offense and ended the quarter 10-10.

In the 2nd quarter, Caston started to get some shots to fall for them and took an 8 point lead but the Lady Braves kept attacking and with SHealyn Powell’s basket at the end of the 1st half, closed the gap to 27-21.

The Lady Braves came out in the 2nd half looking to take advantage what they saw in the 1st half and with Bailey Carson’s back to back 3 point shots, ties the game at 27-27. Both teams settled down in their defense and took theings away form each other. At the end of the 3rd quarter, Caston took a 37-34 lead going into the final quarter.

Both teams battled in the final quarter, the Lady Braves had cut the lead to 3 points with about 3 minutes to go but just couldn’t get a couple of shots to fall in a row, and Caston hit just enought free throws to pull out the win 48-40.

The Lady Braves were led by Miranda Stoll with 15 points, Bailey Carson with 14 points, Sydney Barnes had 7 points and SHaelyn Powell had 4 points.

The Lady Braves will be Peru tomorrow at 12:00 pm at Peru.

On another note, The Lady Braves had 15 players on the Miami County Academic Honor Team. All 13 varsity players and two managers.