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De Soto's Brandan Philbrook (41) drives to the lane as Eudora's Brian Katzfey defends. Philbrook scored 11 points for the Wildcats.

TONGANOXIE – Eudora High’s Justin Ballock scored 12 points and Drew Noble scored eight to help lead the Eudora boys to a 35-31 victory over De Soto in the third-place game Saturday at the Tonganoxie Invitational.

Eudora led 15-13 at the half, but De Soto (7-5) opened the third quarter on a 7-0 run to retake the lead. Eudora, though, answered that with an 8-0 run. With the Cardinals (7-4) clinging to a 32-31 lead with 6.2 seconds to play, Conner Scott swished two free throws to push the lead to three. And Justin Ballock added free throw with 4.8 seconds to play to secure the victory.

De Soto’s Brandan Philbrook led De Soto with 11 points and seven rebounds.

Score by quarters

1 2 3 4 F

De Soto 7 6 8 10 31

Eudora 9 6 8 12 35

Scoring:

De Soto – TJ Crow 3, Daniel Peterson 5, Kyle McCulloch 3, Paul Stallbaumer 1, Jeff Bowen 2, Brandan Philbrook 11, Aaron Nutterfield 3, Joey Johnson 3.

Eudora – Coulter Vestal 3, Conner Scott 4, Evan Cleveland 1, Justin Ballock 12, Brian Katzfey 7, Drew Noble 8.

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