Bullpups Dominate Wildcats In Second Half
Sports Editor Peter Holland Jr.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th
McP 18 40 58 67
ELD 17 31 34 43
EL DORADO — There won’t be any trap games Friday night as the McPherson High School boys basketball team routed El Dorado High School 67-43, thanks to a strong second half. The Bullpups now improve to 6-3 on the season, and 4-0 in the AVCTL Division-III League.
“First half I let them talked it over,” Head Coach Kurt Kinnamon said. “I don’t ever remember being a democracy and these guys talked me into playing some zone trap stuff and that didn’t work out so well for us after they hit their third three. We decided that maybe it was a bad idea and then we weren’t at the mentality to guard.”
The Bullpups finally saw some breathing room in the second half after outscoring El Dorado 18-3, which resulted in a 58-34 lead going into the fourth. It all went downhill for the Wildcats. Wittenberg, who led with 18 points, was scoreless and El Dorado only had 12 points the whole second half.
“We just guarded better,” Kinnamon said. “We had a little more purpose to what we were doing defensively.”
The Bullpups will be in intermission as they get ready for the 56th annual McPherson Invitational, which will begin next Thursday.
Final Stats:
McPherson: Seth Madron 15 pts., Cooper Courtney 14 pts., Cody Stufflebean 10 pts. Hayes Schmid 7 pts., Adam Elliott 7 pts., Jayton Alexander 6 pts., Eli Pyle 5 pts., Sam Pyle 2 pts. Darriene Gibbs 1 pts.