Bracken County 59 Villa Madonna 56

[Randy Parker]

Final.

 

From what I'm seeing on Twitter, Polar Bears senior guard Philip Jefferson hits a 3 as time expires to get the win. Jefferson finished with 27 points.

[U Reach I Teach]

This is a very big win for the Polar Bears! Congrats to Coach Persinger and his team!

Also big S/O to Philip Jefferson on hitting the game winner and posting a career high 27 points.

[AndOneDad]

This is a very big win for the Polar Bears! Congrats to Coach Persinger and his team!

Also big S/O to Philip Jefferson on hitting the game winner and posting a career high 27 points.

 

Very nice young man and I'm really happy for him. As I've said previously he and Haight play the game well.

[Randy Parker]

Very nice young man

 

Top notch. :thumb:

[All Blue]

Any stats?

[Randy Parker]

Senior guard Phillip Jefferson hit a 3-pointer as time expired to lift Bracken County to a 59-56 win over Villa Madonna on Wednesday. Jefferson finished with a game-high 27 points.

 

The Blue Lightning were led by senior guard Andy Piccirillo’s 19 and 12 by eighth-grade guard Cole Von Handorf.

 

BRACKEN CO. 13-18-11-17—59

at V.MADONNA 20-16-8-12—56

 

BRACKEN COUNTY (11-17): A. Crawford 3 3 10, Ray 1 0 3, G. Crawford 3 2 8, Haight 0 2 2, Jefferson 9 5 27, Stephenson 1 0 2, Florer 3 1 7. Totals 20 13 59.

 

VILLA MADONNA (15-12): Piccirillo 7 1 19, Smith 2 2 6, Steinkoenig 1 5 7, VonHandorf 4 4 12, Hillenmeyer 1 2 4, Phelps 4 0 8. Totals 19 14 56.

3-pointers: BC—Jefferson 4. VM—Piccirillo 4. JV: Bracken County, 54-48.

Read more: 2/13 BBK: Bracken late 3 sinks Villa

[EHSNKY]

Both teams have 8th graders playing varsity, Austin Crawford and Cole VonHandorf. Nice to see each contribute in this game.

[All In]

Doesn't Villa start a 6'8 center? Was this considered an upset? Villa's record puts them around 5th I believe in that region

[Randy Parker]

^ I would guess Villa is in the bottom 5-7 teams in the 9th. Walter ranked them 16th out of 20 in the pre-season.

 

Comparable opponents with Bracken: they lost to Beechwood by 3. Bracken split with Beechwood. They beat Nicholas County by 3. Bracken also beat Nicholas by 3. So I think these two teams are on about the same level with each other.

 

Still a good win for the Polar Bears heading into the postseason.