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Hoops continued from page 1B favor for once.” Sophomore Bri Scott hit five of her six foul shot in the fourth quarter. She led the team in scoring with 14 Junction had the ball on the final possession to tie the game, but this shot rimmed out and Scott grabbed the rebound. “(Boone) told us to push it,” fresh man Sarah White said. “He was proud of us. He is such a great coach and he pushes very well. I think coach Boone has done such a great job.” Warriors cruise past Junction ketball team forced 14 second half turnovers on its way to a 68-47 win over Junction on Friday at home. The Warriors started slow and set nine lead changes in the first half, but the Warriors led 28-25 at halftime. “(Coach Brice Reynolds) told us to stop being so nervous,” senior Cody Asbury said. “We try to get up by 30 points in the first quarter, and we real ize that can’t happen. So, we settled down in the second half.” The Warriors opened the third quar ter with a 12-2 run. Asbury got the of fense going in the second half, scoring 16 of his game-high 25 points shwanan taisieathe ices. Asbury said, “We got some steals and turned that into some fast break of fense.” Junior Caleb Bunch added 12 win, but it’s Comfort on Tuesday.” Boys suffer rare loss at home MEDINA — it had been nearly three years since the last time a boys district opponent had arrived at Me with a win. It looked like Mason wasn't going to snap an impressive Bobcat streak that started against Harper — then still in Class A — on Feb. 12, 2008. No. 21-ranked Medina opened the ers, but went sour from that point and since the Longhorns to beat Medina, 49-39, Friday at Bobcat Gym. “I hope we learn from it,” Medina coach Tut Wardlaw said. “I hope we don't pack it in. “Hey, this is the first home district loss we've had in three years. We haven't lost a district game in 16 other tries, so it’s new to us. Some of those lost on this floor.” The Bobcats surged ahead, 12-2, in the first quarter as Jeremy Kennedy made three 3-pointers and Andrew Landry made another. The Punchers nailed a three of their own at the end of the quarter to cut the lead to 12-5. From that point, Mason started gain ing momentum. Trailing 16-13, Medina senior Armando Rodriguez was called for a defensive foul and seconds later was called for a technical foul after re acting poorly to the call, free throws then made a 3-pointer to the help of Sammie Williamson and Landry, but Mason made a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to tie the game at 21. “I saw a team come out in the first quarter ready to play,” Wardlaw said, third quarter. The Punchers began the second half with a 9-0 run and never lost the lead. Medina cut the score to 32-29 to open the fourth quarter, but a 5-0 run from Mason increased the lead and the teams would spend most of final minutes trading baskets. Medina consistently cut the score to six points, but the closest it could come to mounting a comeback was 44-38. The Bobcats scored one more point, a free throw by Mitchell Black, and never could get the stop it needed against Mason. “I don't know if it's the youth on the team or ... We got guys on the team who never bend in big game sit uations, (and) this was a big game,” we're in the driver's seat to the dis trict championship. We got smacked in the math and ddate Kennedy finished with 1] points points. The Punchers improve to 3-1 in District 29-A, with the only loss com ing against Johnson City. Medina (17-9 overall, 2-1 in district) tead The Medina girls basketball team, on a night when seniors were hon ored before the game, struggled against one of the state's best Class A teams, Mason, on Friday at home. The Ladycats lost to the No. 18-ranked Cowgirls 56-25. After building first lead of the game to 4.2, Medina struggled sure of Mason. The Cowgirls went on an 11-0 run and never looked back. Mason came out of the halftime break leading 23-9 and went on a 13-1 run in the third quarter. The largest lead of the game came at 38 points, 54-16, in the fourth
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