Archive for Saturday, January 23, 2010

Eudora boys top De Soto 35-31

Eudora High's Conner Scott (5) drives in for a layup as De Soto's Kyle McCulloch (23) defends during the second quarter Saturday at Tonganoxie. Eudora won the third-place game 35-31.

Photo by Jeff Deters. Enlarge photo.

Eudora High's Conner Scott (5) drives in for a layup as De Soto's Kyle McCulloch (23) defends during the second quarter Saturday at Tonganoxie. Eudora won the third-place game 35-31.

By Jeff Deters

January 23, 2010

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

Photo by Jeff Deters

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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