On a night when Max Priggel scored a career-high and the Eagles scored a season-high, Oran hammered the Hawks 81-47 in the opening round of the Scott-Mississippi Conference boys tournament hosted by Kelly High School.
The game started tight.
With two minutes gone, the score was knotted 6-6. The Eagles, however, went on a 14-4 run to close out the first period and took a 20-8 lead into the second.
Kelly scored the first 4 points to cut the margin to 8 at 20-12. Oran took over after that by scoring the next 8, including back-to-back treys by Jacob Shoemaker and the rout was on.
At the half, the Eagles, the 3-seed, were up 44-21 over the 6th seeded Hawks.
The lead was 29 after 3, 65-26 and the turbo-clock was in affect most of the fourth quarter.
Coach Joe Shoemaker had this to say after the game, "On the defensive end, we did a good job of guarding without fouling and limiting them to one shot each trip. Offensively, I thought we did a good job of attacking and moving the basketball."
Max Priggel poured in 34 points. He hit 3 shots from beyond the arc. Jacob Shoemaker scored 15 including his 2 long-range bombs. Also, he was 3-3 from the line. Cole Priggel was the third Eagle to reach double-digits with 11.
Layne Johnson chipped in 9 while, Drew Reischman and Luke Barnes added 6 apiece off the bench.
Wyatt Kinney, Joey Phillips, William Kluesner and Peyton McVey played but did not score.
Oran was 8 for 16 from the charity stripe for 50%.
They are now 8-6 on the season and will be back in action Thursday evening at 7:45, when they take on the No. 2 seeded East Prairie Eagles. Oran has lost the last three meetings between the two teams by a total of 5 points.
The junior varsity, the 3-seed, will play tonight at 7:30. They take on the 6th seeded Oak Ridge Bluejays.
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