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Well it wasnt pretty, Waverly played with no intensity until the last 4 minutes but any win is better than a loss.

Waverly lead 12-8 after one (Easton Wolfe with 8)
Minford lead 31-30 at the break (Kelton Kelley with 9 & Andy Crank with 7 - Trey Robertson with 7, Wolfe out with 2 fouls)
Minford lead 51-44 after three (Nathan McCormick with 9 / Cody Remington with 7)
Waverly 61-58 Final (Cobe Marquez with 7 in the 4th)

Minford opened up a 9 point lead in the 4th before the Tigers turned up the pressure, intensity and started nailing some shots. Cody Remington with a three and Cobe Marquez with another within seconds of each other after steal to cut to 3 at 54-57 with 4:47 to play and a Minford timeout.
After 3 or 4 trips each, Waverly cut it to 1 at 56-57 with 2:08 to play on a basket by Remington. The and one was missed.
Tigers took the lead at 58-57 with 1:03 to play on a bucket by Marquez.
Waverly went to line for a one and one with .32 to play but missed the front end. Robertson come up with a steal at mid court and Dunn made good on the front end of the one and one for a 59-57 lead with .13 to play.
Minford’s Cameron Dalton was fouled going to the basket with .5 to play. After making the first the second one bounced off and Waverly still lead 59-58.
Dunn went to the line with 3.7 to play and made both for the final 61-58.

WAVERLY SCORING
Easton Wolfe 13 (all first half )
Cobe Marquez 12 (all second half)
Cody Remington 12 (all second half)
Ethan Dunn 9 (3-4 FT’s in the 4th)
Trey Robertson 7 (all 2nd quarter when Wolfe went out)
Tanner Smallwood 6
Waverly was 6-12 from then line (not good enough)

MINFORD SCORING
Kelton Kelley 17 (12 first half)
Darius Jordan 13
Cameron Dalton 10 (8 second half)
Nathan McCormick 9 (all 3rd quarter)
Andy Crank 7 (all 2nd quarter)
Elijah Vogelsong-Lewis 3
Minford was 11-15 from the line

Waverly moves to 13-6, ready for the Sectional seeding on Sunday before hosting the Oak Hill Oaks on Tuesday.
Oak Hill pulled out a 1 point win at home over South Webster.

An ugly win beats a pretty loss any day of the week in my book.

Congrats Tigers.

Oh yeah.....Thank you for the updates smurray. Very good break down and stats sir.

Hoggy wrote: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:05 pm Oh yeah.....Thank you for the updates smurray. Very good break down and stats sir.

Thanks

Nice win by the tigers, minford stayed in that zone and I really feel Waverly was just to content in jacking up the 3s and weren't hitting consistently. I believe the 3rd quarter Waverly probably put up 10-12, 3s just in the 3rd. Once again missing the free throws kept the game much closer at the end. Easton Wolfe was huge on the boards tonight,

After watching Minford recently, I would have picked Waverly in a rout. Mayby after a big win over Jackson, might have had a little letdown.

Closer game than I expected. Didn’t think Minford was at Waverlys level. The tigers won the game but only by 3 points.

Ethan Dunn made some clutch free throws down the stretch, to help the Tigers hang on. That's what your seniors are suppose to do. I believe those final free throws were 1 and 1's too, CLUTCH...