Pictured is #13 Makayla Strutton
On Thursday, December 3rd, the 2A Mansfield Sr High Tigers and Lady Tigers hit the hardwood at home to try their hand at keeping the 6A Southside Mavericks and Lady Mavericks from calling a royal flush. After some heavy-duty basketball action, the Lady Tigers finished with a final winning score of 46-37 while the Tigers ended under 38-53.
Although the first quarter ended with the Lady Mavericks leading 13-10, the Lady Tigers came back in the second quarter to quickly shut Southside down for the remainder of the match. Leading in scoring for the Sr Lady Tigers was Chloe Creekmore with 16 followed by Brooke Wright with 9, Sadie Roberts with 8, Kiara Thomas with 6, Danielle Lillie with 4, Natalie Allison with 2, and Makayla Strutton with 1.
The Tigers stayed firm on the heels of the Mavericks all the way up to the third quarter which ended with a score of 35-32 Southside. But unfortunately Mansfield lost their footing in the final quarter allowing the Mavericks to take all. Ethan Pettus finished on top with 11 points, JoJo Bailey scored 9, Zayne Dugan and Tyler Escalante each netted 6, Codi Chick snagged 4, and Bri Sanderson logged 2.
The Sr Tigers will compete in their third game this week when they travel to Lamar on Friday, December 4 with Jr High kicking things off at 4 pm.
