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Independence, MO —
A good team effort allowed Fort Osage girls basketball coach Dawn Williams to excuse a little sloppiness.
Winning didn’t hurt either.
Sierra Glassford fired in a career-high 18 points and Raven Bunn added 15 as the Indians held off host Oak Park for a 53-40 Suburban Middle Seven victory Thursday night.
“It was a little sloppy but we played just well enough to win,” Williams said after her team improved to 5-4 overall and 2-1 in conference play. “We did get a good game out of our bench. Sarah Daubendiek contributed some good minutes and rebounds off the bench.
“And Sierra was very aggressive. She had a great game.”
Glassford also contributed two steals and two assists, and Allison Stevens had five assists and three steals in her first varsity start.
The Indians jumped to a 12-5 lead after one quarter in the game that was switched from Fort Osage because of an Oak Park schedule conflict.
Oak Park claimed a 37-23 win in the junior varsity game.
HARRISONVILLE 48, OAK GROVE 36: Jordyn Anspach tallied 15 points but Oak Grove couldn’t hold on to a halftime lead in a Missouri River Valley Conference West home loss to Harrisonville Thursday.
The Panthers led 21-20 at halftime, but Harrisonville outscored them 28-15 in the second half, including 16-8 in the third quarter, to drop Oak Grove to 3-5 overall and 0-1 in the MRVC West
“I was pleased overall,” Panthers coach Mike Cox said. “Harrisonville was 8-1 coming in and we had a lead on them at halftime. The third quarter hurt us, but I was pleased with the effort and execution.”
Miranda Epperson added nine points for Oak Grove.
Boys
Alex Ball nearly led William Chrisman to a game-winning rally in the Kaminsky Classic in Joplin.
But despite scoring 46 second-half points, the Bears fell 69-64 in the first round of the tournament Thursday night.
Chrisman meets Wichita (Kan.) Word of Life at 4 p.m. today in a consolation semifinal.
Ball fired in 13 of his team-high 17 points in the fourth quarter as the Bears made a furious run after Joplin opened the period on an 8-1 run.
"We did a good job coming back, but it's tough to have to be in that position so often," Chrisman coach John Vickers said. "We need to be more fundamentally sound and realize just how important all the little things are in basketball."
Brett Pendergist added 14 points and Elyzer Grullon had 11 for Chrisman (1-5), which fell behind 11-2 after the first quarter.
Charlie Brown scored 18 of his 29 points over the second and third quarters to power Joplin (5-2).
A good team effort allowed Fort Osage girls basketball coach Dawn Williams to excuse a little sloppiness.
Winning didn’t hurt either.
Sierra Glassford fired in a career-high 18 points and Raven Bunn added 15 as the Indians held off host Oak Park for a 53-40 Suburban Middle Seven victory Thursday night.
“It was a little sloppy but we played just well enough to win,” Williams said after her team improved to 5-4 overall and 2-1 in conference play. “We did get a good game out of our bench. Sarah Daubendiek contributed some good minutes and rebounds off the bench.
“And Sierra was very aggressive. She had a great game.”
Glassford also contributed two steals and two assists, and Allison Stevens had five assists and three steals in her first varsity start.
The Indians jumped to a 12-5 lead after one quarter in the game that was switched from Fort Osage because of an Oak Park schedule conflict.
Oak Park claimed a 37-23 win in the junior varsity game.
HARRISONVILLE 48, OAK GROVE 36: Jordyn Anspach tallied 15 points but Oak Grove couldn’t hold on to a halftime lead in a Missouri River Valley Conference West home loss to Harrisonville Thursday.
The Panthers led 21-20 at halftime, but Harrisonville outscored them 28-15 in the second half, including 16-8 in the third quarter, to drop Oak Grove to 3-5 overall and 0-1 in the MRVC West
“I was pleased overall,” Panthers coach Mike Cox said. “Harrisonville was 8-1 coming in and we had a lead on them at halftime. The third quarter hurt us, but I was pleased with the effort and execution.”
Miranda Epperson added nine points for Oak Grove.
Boys
Alex Ball nearly led William Chrisman to a game-winning rally in the Kaminsky Classic in Joplin.
But despite scoring 46 second-half points, the Bears fell 69-64 in the first round of the tournament Thursday night.
Chrisman meets Wichita (Kan.) Word of Life at 4 p.m. today in a consolation semifinal.
Ball fired in 13 of his team-high 17 points in the fourth quarter as the Bears made a furious run after Joplin opened the period on an 8-1 run.
"We did a good job coming back, but it's tough to have to be in that position so often," Chrisman coach John Vickers said. "We need to be more fundamentally sound and realize just how important all the little things are in basketball."
Brett Pendergist added 14 points and Elyzer Grullon had 11 for Chrisman (1-5), which fell behind 11-2 after the first quarter.
Charlie Brown scored 18 of his 29 points over the second and third quarters to power Joplin (5-2).
