Dublin…Although the Cougars were outscored 24-23 in the second half, it wasn’t enough. They hung on to defeat the Bassett Bengals 47-37. Alexis Phillips led the home-standing Cougars girls with ten points. Amia Stables had nine, and Taylor Dickerson came off the bench to score eight points. Helen Counts also came off the bench to score seven huge points for the Cougars. Savannah Coffey suffered an injury to her one of her knees. It may have been MCL or ACL. That was the bad news for the night.

The Bengals were led by Ashlee Turner with 11 points. Tiasia Dillard contributed eight, and Jasmine Tinsley chipped in with seven in a losing effort.

The game featured 48 fouls and 58 foul shots between the two squads. In the foul fest contest, it took and hour and 45 minutes to play. The Cougar girls improved their record to 15-8, and will travel to Roanoke where they will take on the Colonels of William Fleming in Roanoke. The Colonels are 16-5 for the season, and are the second seed in conference 24 semi-finals.

Bassett – 5 8 10 14 – 37

PC – 6 18 12 11 – 47

 

Bassett – Sigmon 2, Turner 11, Guillams 3, Hering 6, Dillard 8, Tinsley 7

PC – Stables 9, Haynes 5, Dickerson 8, Phillips 10, Counts 7, Greer 6, Hinton 1, Coffey 1

3 pt goals – Bassett – 2 – (Turner), PC – 4 – (Dickerson 2, Hayes, Stables)

Fouls – Bassett – 22, PC – 26

Fouled out – Bassett – Dillard, PC – Phillips

Technicals – 0

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Dublin… During the opening round of Conference 24 playoffs, the Pulaski Co. Cougars defeated the Bassett Bengals to advance to the semi-finals. What started as a close game, took a turn as the Cougars played much better the second half to pull away from Bassett, for a 36-26 win.

The Cougars were up 8-1 after the opening quarter and scored the opening bucket of the second quarter for a 10-1 lead, but Bassett went on a 15-3 run to take a 16-13 lead into intermission.

The second half saw the Cougars coming out in a man to man from their 2-3 zone as they picked up the pace of the game and outscored the Bengals 13-2 for a 26-18 score going into the final quarter.

Senior Miguel Garcia led the Cougars (15-8) with 13 points, and senior point guard Isaac Poe finished with nine. Poe has been out for the last three regular season games with a badly sprained ankle. The Cougars lost two of those three games. CC Grubb was held to four points for the night.

Bassett’s leading scorer was Tanner Whitehead with nine points as the Cougar defense held them to single digits for three of the four quarters.

Cougar head coach Andrew Hart remarked, ”We didn’t capitalize on some things there in the first half. Our defense was real good tonight, and it was nice to have Isaac Poe back out on the court.” Coach Hart was then asked about playing when there’s no school and playing a 2-3 zone and he replied, ”It may have made us a little sluggish in the first half, but I’m happy with our defense tonight. We held them to what, 11 points total in three quarters?”

With this victory, the Cougars will advance to the Conference 24 semi-finals Wednesday night as they face the William Fleming Colonels in Roanoke at a time to be determined.

 

Bassett 1 15 2 8 – 26

PC 8 5 13 10 – 36

 

Bassett – Martin 2, Hairston 3, Whitehead 9, Ziegler 3, Simon 2, Jones 4, Varner 3

 

PC – Grubb 4, Robertson 4, Spencer 2, Poe 9, Blevins 2, Garcia 13, Bradley 2

 

3- PT. Goals – Bassett -2- (Whitehead 2, Hairston), PC- 2-(Poe, Robertson)

 

 

Fouls- Bassett- 14, PC- 11

 

Technicals- Cougars- Bradley, Bassett- Ziegler

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Pulaski Co. Cougars girls and boys basketball games scheduled for Monday February 15 will now be played Saturday February 13 at Pulaski Co. The Cougar gals will take on Bassett Bengals at 5:00 and the Cougar boys takes on Bassett at 6:30 in the Cougar Den..

Salem…The Cougars, playing for the second night in a row and without their senior point guard Isaac Poe, saw Salem go on a 24-0 run during the first and into the second quarter of the game as the Spartans slammed the Cougars 73-47.

Baylor Mabes scored 22 points for the Spartans. Trevon Hill scored 15, and 12 points came from Goran Vukovic. The Spartans were down 9-7 late in the opening quarter then went on an astonishing run to go up 31-9 in the second quarter.

Pulaski Co. got a short jumper from Noah Bradley 2:35 mark left in the second quarter to stop the run, but the Cougars found themselves down 36-15 going into intermission. CC Grubb led the Cougars with 29 points as he knocked down four threes and produced 20 of those points in the second half. It was too little too late. Salem outscored the Cougars 37-32 after intermission.

“We didn’t play well the first half, obviously,” said Andrew Hart, Cougar head coach. ”We made too many mistakes, and we definitely miss Isaac Poe.” When Coach Hart discovered that Salem had gone on a 24-0 run in the first/second quarter, he responded by saying, ”I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of a 24-0! I used two time-outs during that time. Maybe I should’ve used more.”

Grubb shot 29 for Pulaski Co. (14-8) while the next scorer with six was point guard Logan Robertson. Miguel Garcia and Noah Bradley contributed four points each.

The Cougar junior varsity saw their season come to an end as they lost to Salem 61-58 in a very close and strongly contested game. The JV finished with a 9-13 season and was led by Ben Poe with 17 points. Austin Reinhart had 12, Kellen Dalton 12, and Cloe Duncan nine. Jarius Miller had four points, and Dre Grubb had three. Garrison Conner led Salem with 23, Nick Johnson and Aiden Bratton both chipped in with 15 each.

Pulaski Co. will now host the opening round of Conference 24 tourney. They will play the Bassett Bengals in the Cougar Den, Monday night at 7:30.

 

Salem 19 17 16 21-73

PC 9 6 16 16-47

 

Salem – Hill 15, Davis 4, Chisom 5, Mabes 22, Vukovic 12, Singh 8, Panel 4, Austin 3

 

PC – Grubb 29, Robertson 6, Garcia 4, Bradley 4, Blevins 2

 

3-PT. Goals – Salem- 6-(Hill 3, Vukovic, Chisom, Austin)

– PC – 4-(Grubb 4)

 

Total Fouls- Salem- 7, PC- 12

 

Technicals- None

The Cougars second half proved costly as they got outscored 27-14 and they lost to the Blue Demons 47-44.

Up 30-20 at intermission the Cougar offensive went missing as ony two players would hit a field goal. They stroked six three pointers in the first half but hit none in the second. They only hit four of eleven from the charity stripe for the game and was just two of nine the second half. Cougar head coach Andrew Hart remarked, ” Christiansburg didn’t do anything different in the second half from the first half. We just stopped playing hard. The offensive woes cost us on the defense also. We didn’t guard the post and Clayborne went for 15 points against us.”

Christians burg was led by Quinton Clayborne with 15 and 11 from Alec Anderson.

The Cougars senior Miguel Garcia has 20 points and CC Grubb chipped in with 14 in the lose.

 

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