Charleston girls score at buzzer, nip Delta 46-45

DELTA, Mo. -- Charleston's Missy Whitney negated a dramatic comeback by Delta, tipping in a missed free throw at the buzzer for a 46-45 victory in high school girls basketball action Thursday night.

Whitney and teammate Tyshanta Williams each finished with 19 points.

Delta (5-3) had rallied from a 12-point deficit with just over three minutes remaining to take the lead in the closing moments. A pair of free throws by Rebecca Below, who finished with a game-high 22 points, gave the Lady Bobcats a 45-44 lead with 11 seconds remaining. Delta then fouled Williams, who missed the front end of a one-and-one, but Whitney, a 5-foot-11 sophomore, deposited the game winner on the rebound as time expired.

"I was proud of our kids," said Delta coach Randall White. "They played hard and could've let up late down by 12."

Charleston led throughout the game, ahead 24-16 at halftime and 38-28 entering the fourth quarter.

Sarah Cook added 10 points for Delta.

CAPE CENTRAL 48

DE SOTO 41

DE SOTO, Mo. -- Cape Central outscored De Soto 31-21 in the second half to improve to 5-2.

Sara Hyslop and Megan McDonald each scored 16 points for the Lady Tigers. Hyslop added 13 rebounds and McDonald had six steals.

Laura Robertson scored 22 points to lead De Soto.

"We were struggling defensively in the first half, but we went to a box-and-one in the second half and shut down Robertson," said Central coach Sheila Midgett. "Anna Brisso played great defense on her and that made the difference."

Robertson, who made four threes, did not score a point in the fourth quarter.

Central was outscored 14-7 in the second quarter and trailed 20-17 going into the second half.

CHAFFEE 51, WOODLAND 39

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee improved to 2-5 with a victory over Woodland.

Mallory Kiefer led the Lady Red Devils with 14 points, followed by Jennifer Vandeven with 12 and Ashley Graham with 10. April Stafford pulled down 12 rebounds for Chaffee.

"We had balanced scoring and my goal has been to get more kids in the scoring column," Chaffee coach Tammy Brock. "We could've done better defensively, but I'll the 'W' any way I can get it at this point."

Kandice Abner scored a game-high 17 points for Woodland.

Chaffee won the junior varsity game 23-10.

BOYS BASKETBALL

MEADOW HEIGHTS 71

MARQUAND 63

MARQUAND, Mo. -- Meadow Heights deposited equal amounts of 2-point field goals and 3-pointers -- 13 apiece -- as it defeated Marquand for the second time this season.

Joey Bell accounted for five of the treys as he led the Panthers (6-1) with 19 points. Josh Mayfield added 17, Josh Fulton scored 14 and Derik Collier netted 10.

Heath Stephens scored a game-high 20 points for Marquand (3-4), which also got 11 apiece from Ryan Stephens and Jason Thomas.

Marquand took a 25-21 lead in the second half, but Meadow Heights moved ahead 44-41 by the start of the fourth quarter.

BOYS SWIMMING

CAPE CENTRAL 104

NOTRE DAME 79

Cape Central picked up its first dual victory of the season by defeating Notre Dame at Central Pool.

Tiger swimmers won seven of the 12 events. Cape Central improved to 1-3. Notre Dame's record fell to 2-2.

Cape Central coach Dayna Powell was excited about her team's first triumph.

"After swimming against Lafayette, Parkway and Rockwood, to have a local rivalry, is a lot of fun," said Powell.

"We had some great times and it's always great time to swim against the neighboring team you practice in the same pool with," said Notre Dame coach Lenny Kuper.

Both teams compete in quad meet at Cape Central.

Results

200 medley relay - 1. ND 1:58.36 (Josh Lester, Jordan Kuper, Mark Lester, Tim Frank); 2. CC 1:59.08 (Sam Maguire, Chad Proffer, Alex Heddle, Mike Mercer)

200 freestyle - 1. Andrew Moreton (CC) 2:07.69; 2. Chad McCormick (ND) 2:18.18

200 IM - 1. Kuper (ND) 2:20.09; 2. J. Lester (ND) 2:37.48

50 freestyle - 1. Heddle (CC) 24.27; 2. Stephen Hine (ND) 26:87

Diving - 1. Cecil Quinn (CC); 2. John Stoverink (ND) 161.75

100 butterfly - 1. M. Lester (ND) 1:07.34; 2. J. Lester (ND) 1:11.60

100 freestyle - 1. Maguire (CC) 52.23; 2. Moreton (CC) 55.86

500 freestyle - 1. M. Lester (ND) 5:56.06; 2. Heddle (CC) 6:15.75

200 freestyle relay - 1. CC 1:46.31 (Proffer, Chris Daniel, Clay Schermann, Moreton); 2. CC 1:57:26 (Quinn, Tyler Thompson, Sean Kinney, Gabe Keys)

100 backstroke - 1. Maguire (CC) 1:05.48; 2. Hines (ND) 1:12.80

100 breaststroke - 1. Kuper (ND) 1:11.25; 2. Proffer (CC) 1:21.41

400 freestyle - 1. CC 3:52.23 (Mercer, Maguire, Heddle, Moreton); 2. ND 4:02.31 (M. Lester, McCormick, Hine, Kuper)

WRESTLING

JACKSON 44, WINDSOR 23

WINDSOR, Mo. -- Call it a Tiger Classic Eve gift.

With the area's largest wrestling tournament to start today, Jackson won a fairly competitive dual match over Windsor.

"We came out a little flat, but our middle to upper weights came up strong for us," Jackson coach Steve Wachter said. "Windsor is a good team. I thought they wrestled us well."

Jackson's junior varsity won 66-6.

Results

103 - Jake Wright (W) dec. Paul Feiner 10-8 OT

112 - Tom Seabaugh (W) forfeit

119 - Brock Howard (J) pinned Nathan Trumbo 5:26

125 - Mike Ray (W) maj. dec. David Sweeney 11-2

130 - Jake Fitts (W) maj. dec. Ben Wachter 13-2

135 - Cody Rouse (J) pinned Ken Lamar 2:28

140 - Ricky Feiner (J) tech fall Kevin Lemery 17-1

145 - Logan Purk (W) dec. Garrett Huck 12-10 OT

152 - Justin Rice (J) dec. Andrew Balsman 7-4

160 - James Love (J) pinned Steve Schultz 1:48

171 -- Dan Stoffey (W) dec. Cameron Lacy 9-6

189 - Matt Kahle (J) pinned Sam McDonald 1:08

215 - Seth Harrell (J) pinned Brian Bollinger 3:31

HWT - Luke Wade (J) forfeit

JV Winners: 103 Bobby Trowbridge, 125 Michael Sladek, 130 Jordan Barnhart, 135 Austin Bock, 140 Shawn Hinkebein, 145 Greg Ludwig, 152 Matt Jackson, 160 Blake Ulrich, 171 Jeremy Rollet, 189 Andy Glass, 215 Dustin Fluegge.

-- From staff reports