The Cougars came out smokin and didn’t let up as they walloped the Blacksburg Bruins 74-46. The win improved the Cougars to 13-5 as they were led by Isaac Poe with 20 points. Miguel Garcia had 18 and CC Grubb chipped in with 17.

The Bruins got 10 points from freshman Grant Johnston with 10. J.Rob Hudson had eight points and Hank Skutt chipped in with six.

The Cougars led 16-8 after one quarter and 32-19 at intermission and never looked back. Nine of the 10 players dressed for them scored. Five players hit tree-pointers as head coach Andrew Hart got all his players into the game. Coach Hart remarked, ” We got great effort tonight on offense and defense.Our big three led us and others stepped up for us.”

The Cougar JV dropped a 48-34 decision to the Bruins. They saw their record drop to 6-12 and got seven points from Alex Akers. Ben Poe and Cole Duncan had six points each. Bruins had two p[layer score 11 points apiece, Nelson Etuk and Drew Babcock.

PC- 16 16 23 19-74

B-burg- 8 11 17 10- 46

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Dublin… Can you say upset? Big, big win? The Pulaski Co. Cougar boys basketball defeated the visiting Cave Spring Knights 57-52 in the Cougar Den.

The Knights came into the Cougar Den with a 12-2 overall record and 7-0 in district play. The two teams played on December 15 with the Cougars losing 42-30 at Cave Spring. That score was a little misleading in that the Cougars were only down five going into final quarter. This time the Cougars were only down three at intermission and found themselves up 38-36 going into final quarter.

Cougar guards Isaac Poe and CC Grubb combined to score 41 points on the night. They scored 15 of the Cougars 19 in the all-important fourth quarter. Poe knocked in 23 points and Grubb 18. Poe hit six straight big foul shots late in the game to sew up the upset.

“We played great defense in the second half on Brody Hicks. Sean Spencer and Miguel Garcia just did a tremendous job on him. He had, what 15 points at intermission, and he ended up with 19 for the game,” said Cougar head coach Andrew Hart. ”Poe (Isaac) was a weapon for us in the final quarter at the free throw line. We go as they, Poe and Grubb goes,” added Coach Hart. He then added, “Its hard not being in school and playing. My hats off to our guys for the energy they showed tonight.”

Pulaski Co. had a big week as they not only knocked off previously undefeated (in the district) Cave Spring but also defeated Salem earlier in the week. The win improved the Cougars to 12-4 overall and 6-2 in district play. They have won four straight, all in the district.

Hicks led the Knights with 19 and 6’7” center Baker Havilland tossed in 12.

Up 49-43 with 2:13 to go in the game, the Knights, Havilland hit a short jumper and was fouled. He hit the foul shot to cut the Cougar margin to just three. After a Sean Spencer foul makes the Knights go to the line, the first of one and one was missed with 1:10 to go.

Poe would then hit six in a row from the charity stripe and Grubb connected on one of two to put the game into the win column, and the Cougars had knocked off the Knights.

The Cougar junior varsity wasn’t as fortunate as they got beat by the Cave Spring junior varsity 62-53. The Knights got 26 points from guard Dawson Hicks. Austin Reinhart led Pulaski Co. with 16, Alex Akers 13 and Julian Black tossed in 10 in a losing effort.

Pulaski will go on the road next week as they travel to Hidden Valley on Tuesday and to Blacksburg next Friday.

 

CS 10 16 10 16-52

PC 14 9 15 19-57

 

Scoring- CS- Daniels 5, Reyer 8, Hicks 19, Beckner 2, Havilland 12, Shannon 6

 

– PC- Poe 23, Grubb 18, Spencer 8, Garcia 4, Bradley 2. Blankenship 2

 

3 PT. GOALS- CS- 4-(Hicks 3, Reyer), PC- 7- (Grubb 4, Poe 3)

 

 

Fouls- CS- 21, PC- 17

 

Fouled Out- CS- Beckner, Furrow, PC- Bradley

 

Technicals- None

Dublin… Playing at a slower pace and with good defense, the Pulaski Co. Cougars hung on to defeat the Salem Spartans 39-35.

With the shooting, at times, as cold it was outside, the Cougars and Spartans played a tight contest. Pulaski Co. (11-4) matched their win total from all last season as CC Grubb led them with 15 points, and senior point guard Isaac Poe hit six of eight from the charity stripe in the fourth quarter. Poe finished with 10 points.

Salem had trouble hitting from outside until the last four minutes in the game. They hit three downtown threes to put them right back in the game with under two minutes remaining. Oran Vukovic scored 10 points, all from inside the paint. Most of that came in the first half.

“I thought we played great defense tonight,” said Cougar head coach Andrew Hart. “We played much better post and interior defense the second half. They (Salem) hit three very long contested jumpers there late that made it a little to exciting.”

The Spartans (5-8) were held to single digits in scoring in each of the first three quarters. They tallied 14 in the fourth. Trevon Hill scored eight, and Shannon Davis contributed five, all in the last four minutes of the game.

Cougars got six points from Miguel Garcia and Noah Bradley came off the bench to score four.

Leading 27-21 going into the final period, the Cougars expanded that to 34-24 with four minutes to go. Davis and Amonte Pannell then hit a three and a two to cut the margin to five.

After Poe hit two ”freebies”, it was 36-29. Then Cam Spangler hit a three, Davis stroke a jumper and it 36-35 with just 1:27 to go. Poe then would hit three of four foul shots in the last twenty seconds to put the game into the W column for the Cougars.

The Cougar junior varsity lost a heartbreaker in overtime to the young Spartans 63-61. The Cougar JV had led by fifteen at intermission and thirteen going into the last quarter only to be tied up with three seconds to go in regulation. The final spoiled a scoring and shooting performance from Cougars’ Kellen Dalton. He finished the game with 30 points. He had 22 of the first 27 points for the Cougars as he stroked four threes and four twos in just over 12 minutes. Alex Akers, Jaylin Nowlin and Noah O’Dell all had eight points each. Aiden Britton had 17 for the Spartans.

Pulaski Co will be back in action Thursday night as they host the tall and talented Cave Spring Knights. Junior varsity starts at 5:30 and varsity at 7:00. The game, as noted, is scheduled for Thursday due to impending weather.

 

 

Salem 6 8 7 14-35

PC 11 9 7 12-39

 

Salem- Hill 8, Davis 5, Spangler 3, Mabes 1, Austin 2, Staples 2, Pannell 4, Vukovic 10

 

PC – Grubb 15, Spencer 2, Poe 10, Blevins 2, Garcia 6, Bradley 4

 

3 PT. Goals- S- 3-(Hill, Davis, Spangler), PC- 4-(Grubb 3, Garcia)

 

Fouls- S- 14, PC- 9

 

Fouled Out- None

 

Technicals- PC- Bench

Points per Game

CC Grubb – 15.1 avg.

Isaac Poe – 14.1 avg.

Miguel Garcia – 8.3 avg.

Assists

Isaac Poe – 3.6 avg.

Miguel Garcia – 2.0 avg.

Trent Blankenship – 1.6 avg.

Rebounds

Miguel Garcia – 5.3 avg.

CC Grubb – 4.1 avg.

Sean Spencer – 2.8 avg.

Steals

CC Grubb – 2.7 avg.

Miguel Garcia – 2.1 avg.

Trent Blankenship – 1.0 avg.

Free Throw Percentage

Isaac Poe – 77%

CC Grubb – 67%

Braeden Blevins – 67%

Field Goal Percentage

Braeden Blevins – 52%

Isaac Poe – 42%

CC Grubb – 40%

Three Point Field Goal Percentage

CC Grubb – 35%

Sean Spencer – 35%

Isaac Poe – 32%

Assists to Turnover Ratio

Isaac Poe – 1.5

Trent Blankenship – 1.2

Braeden Blevins – 1.3

CC Grubb – 0.9

Miguel Garcia – 0.8

Sean Spencer – 0.4

Logan Robertson – 0.3

Bryan Roberson – 0.2

Noah Bradley – 0.1