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Mt. Ayr 60, Murray 39
After a week of court absence, the Raiders (10-1) hit the court once more to face the Murray Mustangs (8-4).
Coach Bret Ruggles wanted his team to get out to a fast start with a lead that would allow them to rest the legs of the starters and the Raiders did just that.
Riley Stark kicked things off with a bucket from three-point territory and the Mount Ayr boys never looked back.
By halftime, the Raiders led 38-16, which gave coach Ruggles enough confidence to rest some of the starters and let the bench come in and maintain the lead.
“Biggest thing for us was to get our legs back under us. We haven’t played for a week. Number two was get up by 20-25 and take Frost and Pierson off and let them rest for tomorrow night,” said coach Ruggles. “Much bigger game tomorrow night, it’ll be for our conference run so it was good to have this type of game tonight.”
The Mustangs held on in the second-half, but the status-quo remained and the Mustangs outscored the Raiders by one point the third and fourth quarters combined.
Jaixen Frost led the Raiders with 21 points and five assists, while collecting six rebounds on the night.
Braydon Pierson scored 14 and recorded eight rebounds.
Ryce Reynolds scored seven on the night and led the team in steals with three and rebounds with 11.
The Raiders faced the Lenox Tigers on Tuesday and are looking for a season sweep after defeating them earlier this season.
The results of that contest will appear in next weeks Record-News.
Stats
1 2 3 4 F
MA 16 22 16 6 60
MM 7 9 17 6 39
Offense
Pts FG 3 FT
Stark 5 1-4 1-3 2-2
Reynolds 7 3-5 0-0 1-2
Frost 21 5-9 1-1 10-11
Pierson 14 6-11 2-7 0-1
C.Larson 2 1-1 0-0 0-0
Victor 0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Sackett 2 1-3 0-2 0-0
M.Larson 0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Ehlen 0 0-2 0-1 0-0
Martin 9 2-4 1-2 4-4
Fooken 0 0-1 0-0 0-0
Defense
R Ast S B
Stark 1 3 1 0
Reynolds 11 2 3 2
Frost 6 5 1 1
Pierson 8 0 1 1
C.Larson 4 1 0 0
Victor 0 0 0 0
Sackett 2 0 1 0
M.Larson 0 0 0 0
Ehlen 0 0 0 0
Martin 8 1 1 0
Fooken 2 0 1 0