Saturday preps: Bears hoops goes to 11-1 with big win at TRC

The Greenville Bears continue to win and in doing so Saturday, got a chance to get familiar with the court the Ozark Foothills Conference tournament final will take place on.

The Bears (11-1) cruised to an easy 72-37 win over Hayti at Three Rivers Community College.

Owen Scherr (16 points), Trey Porter (12 points) and Talan McDaniel (10 points) led the Bears who continue to push for a potential big postseason run.

“I scheduled this game because if we had a chance to play for the conference championship I didn’t want that to be our first experience on this court,” Greenville head coach Nathan Walk said. “I wanted us to be prepared and last year the environment and background took us out of our rhythm. It’s good for the kids and our community to come here and be a part of this.

“The kids are still working hard. It’s just attitude and effort and applying what we work on in practice and it has paid dividends for us.”

OTHER Scores

BOYS

Poplar Bluff, 3rd Place at Kaminsky Classic

The Mules (6-6) wrapped up the Kaminsky Classic in Joplin with a 66-60 loss to the hosts in Saturday’s third-place game.

Poplar Bluff, trailed 29-18 at halftime and was down by 20+ in the second half before once again rallying to make things interesting, pulling to within eight points at various stages when the outcome was left in question.

Gavin Rivers (22 points) hit a triple at the buzzer to account for the final margin. Torrence Williams (eight points) and Darius Graham, Brendan Durden, Preston Moore, and Isaiah Nevel (six points each) contributed to the Poplar Bluff efforts.

Poplar Bluff was held to 35 percent from the field.

Twin Rivers 59, Chaffee 49

The Royals moved to 8-6 this season with a win over Chaffee in the Hall of Fame Classic in Cape Girardeau.

Jagger Crismon scored 31 points to lead the Royals who also got seven points by Jake Hester.

East Carter and Van Buren win at Classic

A slow start turned into a blowout win over Winona for the Redbirds at the Legends of the Hardwood Classic in Van Buren.

Leading the way for East Carter (7-4) were Micah Thompson (21 points) and Kasen McCarty (19 points).

“We defended really well and pressured them into several turnovers,” East Carter head coach Jordan Penn said. “Defense has been a focus for us the last week and I thought we did a good job today.

“We had several silly turnovers that were mostly self-inflicted so we have to fix those before our two games next week.”

Van Buren wrapped up the night with a 50-40 win over Richland as the hosts defended their home court.

Benjamin Hawkins and Caleb Ricker led the host Bulldogs with 18 and nine points to push Van Buren to victory.

GIRLS

Holt 38, Poplar Bluff 37

Madelyn Eads (14 points), Clara Rahlmann (nine points), and Adrienne Casey (seven points) led the Lady Mules (3-9) who fell in a nip-and-tuck affair with their opponents from Wentzville.

The game was played as a part of the St. Louis’ St. Joseph's Academy Shootout.

Bismarck 52, Van Buren 49

The Lady Dawgs fell at home as part of the Legends of the Hardwood event at Van Buren Saturday.

Van Buren (6-5) got 14 points from Ella Wilbanks, 13 points from Mya Gillespie and Kinsley Murphy chipped in with 10 points.

WRESTLING

Dexter at Ste. Genevieve Duals

The Dexter Bearcats lost all four duals at the 12th annual St. Genevieve duals Saturday.

Dexter fell to Valle Catholic (60-24), Mehlville (30-18), Windsor (72-12) and the hosts (78-6).

“We had a very difficult tournament,” Dexter head coach Cody Bauer said. “We just have to keep working. We had some forfeit wins, but not an actual win today. Through adversity comes triumph and we will keep getting better.”