PREP ROUNDUP: Bulldogs still in another title hunt
Published 10:20 pm Friday, December 8, 2017
The News staff reports
SOUR LAKE — Nederland has now won 10 straight basketball games.
Two more, and the Bulldogs will be champions for the second time in as many weekends.
Nederland closed out pool play at the Hardin-Jefferson Basketball Marathon on Friday with a 50-42 win over Tatum, then began Gold bracket play with a 64-59 win over Tyler Chapel Hill.
That put Nederland (13-1) in today’s semifinal round against Little Cypress-Mauriceville, which beat Port Neches-Groves 54-37 on Friday evening. PNG (6-7) will play Chapel Hill at 8 this morning.
Against Chapel Hill, Hayden Hefner scored 19 points, and Cade Smith had 17 to lead the Bulldogs. Jonathan Rayford added 10 in the win.
Statistics for Nederland vs. Tatum were unavailable.
LCM avenged a season-opening overtime loss to PNG in Little Cypress. Statistics from the rematch were not available.
PNG began the day losing to Hardin-Jefferson 61-54 despite getting 20 points from Edsel Damo.
MEMORIAL DROPS TWO IN CYPRESS
CYPRESS — A quick start to Port Arthur Memorial’s first game Friday in the Cypress-Fairbanks tournament quickly soured as Spring Dekaney overcame an early deficit to beat the Titans 64-58.
Memorial couldn’t recover in the second game of the day against former District 21-6A rival North Shore, falling 67-49.
Dekaney turned a 21-13 first quarter deficit into a 30-25 halftime lead but hung on after the Titans (8-5) could only keep pace. Jamyus Jones scored 17 points and Darion Chatman has 12 for the Titans.
North Shore jumped to an 18-2 first-quarter lead on the Titans, who responded with an 18-11 second quarter. But the Mustangs’ start proved too much for Memorial to overcome.
Wesley led with 18 points, and Jones had 14.
Memorial will take on LCM in Port Arthur next Friday.
BOB HOPE 58, ORANGE CCS 49
In Port Arthur, Jaydon Daigle scored 19 points and Chris May added 18 in the Eagles’ win over the Orange Community Christian School Lions.
Juan Esquivel added 13 points in the win.
Bob Hope’s girls team beat CCS 27-2 behind Michelle Bautista’s 15, Jackie Hernandez’s six and Vicky Longoria’s five.
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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