Terrell Henry scored 27 points including the game-winning jump shot with two seconds to play and the Mason County Royals edged the Bracken County Polar Bears 65-63 on Tuesday night in the opening round of the White, Greer and Maggard Holiday Classic at Lexington Catholic.
It's Mason County's 32nd consecutive win over Bracken County.
The Royals scored the first 10 points of the game and led by seven points at halftime.
Mason County was up 41-34 midway through the third quarter, but a technical foul on the Royals swung the momentum to the Polar Bears.
Blake Reed, who poured in 47 points, including his 3,000th career point, scored eight straight points to give Bracken County its first lead at 42-41. Reed scored the final six points of the third quarter and the Polar Bears were up 50-46.
Mason County opened the fourth quarter with a 10-4 run to regain the lead.
Bracken County answered with a 7-2 run to lead 61-58 with 2:25 to play.
The Polar Bears were up 63-60 with 1:25 remaining, but KG Walton scooped in a layup as he was falling to the floor with 1:01 to go, and Henry made 1-of-2 free throws to tie the game with 31 seconds left.
With Bracken County playing for the last shot, Henry made a diving steal at mid-court, passed the ball to Walton and the Royals called timeout with seven seconds remaining.
That set up Henry's game winning basket. Then he sealed the win by intercepting a pass as the Polar Bears tried to get the ball into front court.
There were six lead changes and nine ties in the game.
Riley Mastin scored 13 points and had nine rebounds for Mason County. Walton scored 12 points and Philip Bierley added 11 points.
Cayden Reed added 14 points for Bracken County.
Mason County plays Madison Central on Wednesday at 3:30.
Bracken County takes on Holy Cross on Wednesday at 2 p.m.
Mason County 16 16 14 19 — 65
Bracken County 10 15 25 13 — 63
Mason County — Henry 27, Walton 12, Mastin 13, Hamilton 2, Bierley 11
Bracken County — C. Reed 14, B. Reed 47, Norton 2
No comments:
Post a Comment