Saturday, December 30, 2023

Royals' rally comes up two points short in loss to Walton-Verona

(Jake Feldhaus shoots in close)

The Mason County Royals mounted another furious rally, but came up short in an 86-84 loss to the Walton-Verona Bearcats on Saturday in the third place game of the Mason County Invitational Tournament.

Mason County trailed 21-12 in the first quarter before going on a 15-4 run to lead 27-25 only to trail 47-42 at halftime.

Walton-Verona was up 74-58 with 53 seconds left in the third quarter and 75-61 with 7:22 remaining in the game.

The Royals tied the game at 82-82 with 1:21. Down 86-84, Mason County missed a shot from the top of the key at the buzzer.

After struggling on the boards in Friday night's game, the Royals outrebounded the Bearcats 36-26, but only made 2-of-17 shots from three-point range.

Julian Dixon poured in 31 points for Walton-Verona (10-4).

Mason County sophomore Jake Feldhaus scored a career-hign 25 points before fouling out with 7:22 left in the game. He was 11-of-16 from the field and 3-of-4 from the free throw line.

Blake Reed scored 21 of his 23 points in the second half. Cayden Reed had 16 points, 11 rebounds and five assists and Cole Horch contributed 10 points and seven rebounds.

Blake Reed, Feldhaus, Dixon and Dixon's teammate, Aaron Gutman were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Mason County (7-5) will host the Rowan County Vikings on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in a quarterfinal round game of the Kentucky 2A Championships Section 6 Tournament. The Royals, the defending 2A state champions, lost to Rowan County 86-77 in the season opener on November 28.

In the other games Saturday, Scott edged Tates Creek 58-57 in the seventh place game, Pike County Central topped Augusta 71-67 in the fifth place game and North Oldham defeated Campbell County 68-45 in the championship game.

Walton-Verona    25 22 27 12 — 86
Mason County    23 19 19 23 — 84

Walton-Verona — Montgomery 8, Smith 14, Bach 14, Dixon 31, Gutman 19

Mason County — C. Reed 16, B. Reed 23, McClanahan 2, Feldhaus 25, Horch 10, Hamilton 8

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