Raiders survive wild night in Panora
PROTECTED CONTENT
If you’re a current subscriber, log in below. If you would like to subscribe, please click the subscribe tab above.
Username and Password Help
Please enter your email and we will send your username and password to you.
Mt. Ayr 54,
Panorama 53
The Raiders toughed out a win over the Panorama Panthers last week.
The game came down to the literal buzzer, with the Raiders on top, 54-53.
After the opening quarter of play, the game was tied at 17, but the Raiders were able to pull ahead in the second to lead going into halftime, 33-28.
The lead was just enough to outlast the Panthers, who outscored the Raiders in the second half, 25-22.
The Panthers took a one-point lead with 54.1 seconds left before the Raiders saw a tipped in bucket by Jaixen Frost with 7.7 seconds left to give the Raiders a 54-53 lead.
The clock would wind down with 1.4 seconds left and the Panthers had the ball under their own basket.
The throw-in was intercepted by Braydon Pierson who stayed in-bounds before being pushed out as the buzzer sounded.
After a quick conference of the stripes, the game was called over and the Raiders took their first win of the season to improve to 1-1.
“We are taking away our resolve tonight,” said coach Bret Ruggles. “That is a back-to-back with a very inexperienced team. There are experienced teams that don’t handle that well and for us to come in and have a lot of resolve tonight, our resolve tonight is what I’ll take from it.”
Mount Ayr was led by Frost with 27 points. Frost was 11-of-24 with two-of-five from the arc.
Pierson led the Raiders in rebounds with 10 and had two steals for the Raiders.
Stats
1 2 3 4 F
MA 17 16 13 9 54
Pan 17 11 15 10 53
Offense
Pts FG 3 FT
Stark 0 0-6 0-4 0-0
Reynolds 8 4-7 0-1 0-1
Frost 27 11-24 2-5 3-5
Pierson 10 4-9 2-5 0-0
C.Larson 6 3-10 0-0 0-0
Sackett 0 0-1 0-1 0-0
Yoder 0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Martin 3 1-5 0-2 1-2
Defense
R Ast S B
Stark 2 3 2 0
Reynolds 5 3 1 2
Frost 7 5 2 0
Pierson 10 3 2 0
C.Larson 4 0 2 2
Sackett 0 0 0 0
Yoder 0 0 0 0
Martin 4 0 0 0
Mt. Ayr 61, SWV 40
The Raiders hit the road once more, heading to Corning to face the Southwest Valley Timberwolves.
It was another tough win for the Raiders, before having a fourth quarter to write home about.
The Timberwolves held their own in the first, trailing the Raiders 11-8 before Mount Ayr took a nine-point lead heading into halftime, 26-17.
The Timberwolves made it a close game out of the gate in the third, closing the gap to the Raiders, 30-29 and outscoring Mount Ayr 14-10 in the third.
The fourth quarter was owned by Mount Ayr, however, outscoring Southwest Valley 25-9 to come away with a 61-40 win over the Timberwolves to improve to 2-1 on the season.
Pierson led the team with 20 points, followed by Frost with 19.
Frost was eight-for-eight at the freethrow line to lead the team. He also led in rebounds with eight and assists with four.
Stats
1 2 3 4 F
MA 11 15 10 25 61
SWV 8 9 14 9 40
Offense
Pts FG 3 FT
Stark 5 1-4 1-4 2-3
Reynolds 8 3-9 0-1 2-8
Frost 19 5-15 1-5 8-8
Pierson 20 7-10 3-5 3-4
C.Larson 0 0-4 0-0 0-0
Case 0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Sackett 0 0-1 0-0 0-0
Yoder 0 0-0 0-0 0-2
Martin 6 3-6 0-2 0-0
Fooken 2 1-1 0-0 0-0
Defense
R Ast S B
Stark 2 3 3 0
Reynolds 4 2 0 0
Frost 8 4 2 0
Pierson 6 2 2 0
C.Larson 7 2 1 0
Case 0 1 0 0
Sackett 2 0 0 0
Yoder 1 0 0 0
Martin 1 0 0 0
Fooken 1 0 0 0
