The Harrisburg teams picked up a home varsity sweep of Moberly on Saturday.
After playing the 9pm game Friday night at the Sophie Cunningham Classic, the Lady Bulldogs had a quick turnaround and grinded out a 59-48 victory. The Lady Spartans had cut a 13 point thid quarter deficit down to four heading to the fourth and again down to four with under two minutes left when Jaidyn Stephenson scored her first basket….
Brad Boyer with the call on NEMOPressbox.com. Avelina McKinzie led all scorers with 22 points and was named our Freeman Financial and Insurance Player of the Game. Lorelai Hunziker added 21. The Lady Bulldogs improve to 8-2. Kyia Tydings had a big game for Moberly with 21. The Lady Spartans drop to 2-9 and will play at the Warrenton Winter Shootout next week.
On the day Trace Combs was presented a basketball for scoring his 1,000th career point, he added 31 more to lead 6th ranked Harrisburg past Moberly 77-54. The Bulldogs jumped out to a 21-10 lead after one quarter and extended their advantage to 18 points in the second before the Spartans used their bench (scored 20 of 30 first half points) to make it 41-30 at intermission. Moberly scored the first two points of the third quarter and Harrisburg pulled away with the next eight….
The Bulldogs improve to 8-1. Both Harrisburg teams will visit Macon on Tuesday. Jay Lindsey scored 17 points for Moberly. The Spartans will be the four seed at the California Tournament next week and will play Boonville on Tuesday at 5:30.
postgame with Harrisburg coach Kyle Fisher:
postgame with Moberly coach Brett Boyer:
postgame with Harrisburg girls coach Jaryt Hunziker:
Freeman Financial and Insurance Players of the Game:
girls-Avelina McKinzie
boys-Trace Combs
