While some games were postponed due to weather conditions, a handful of Mid-Michigan high school teams hit the court on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Here are the scores from Tuesday\u2019s action:<\/p>\n
GIRLS BASKETBALL<\/p>\n
MT. PLEASANT 39, ALMA 35: In a season opener for both teams, the Oilers were able to pull out a close win over Alma. The Panthers trailed by just eight after the first two quarters, but came just shy of the comeback.<\/p>\n
Savannah Beery and Payton Penner each scored seven points in the loss.<\/p>\n
BOYS BASKETBALL<\/p>\n
MT PLEASANT 65, ALMA 49: Mt. Pleasant boys grabbed its second win on the season thanks to a strong third quarter. The Panthers held a four-point lead at half, 27-23. Early in the third quarter, Alma held its largest lead of the game, up eight, halfway through the period. Mt. Pleasant then went on a 16-2 run to end the third, and outscored Alma 23-13 in the fourth to win.<\/p>\n
Mt. Pleasant had four different players end with double figures. Xavier Creguer and Jake Hutchins scored 17 points. The Oilers now move to 2-1 on the season.<\/p>\n
Alma\u2019s Koby Shunk led the team with 18 points. The Panthers fall to 1-1 on the year.<\/p>\n
MONTABELLA 64, ITHACA 45: Montabella starts the season 25-26 campaign 2-0 after defeating Ithaca. The Mustangs held a 32-29 lead after the first two quarters, and extended it in the third quarter. In the period, Montabella outscored Ithaca 26-4, led by Mason Bogart\u2019s 13 points.<\/p>\n
Bogart led all scorers with 20 points, making five three-pointers. Noah Carlson poured in 12 points.<\/p>\n
Ithaca was led by Jaxon Whitmore with a team-high 11 points. The Yellowjackets drop to 0-3 on the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some games were postponed due to weather conditions, a handful of Mid-Michigan high school teams hit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,34956,85],"class_list":["post-339405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-high-school-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}