In the opener, it was almost deja vu all over again, as the hometown Eagles lost to East Prairie for the second night in a row by an almost identical score. On Monday they dropped a 69-55 decision at the Advance Junior Varsity tournament. And, once again Oran led early but couldn't hold on.
Our Eagles were up 24-19 with 4:33 left before halftime when Landon Stanberry was whistled for his third person foul. Fifteen seconds later, after he went to the bench, the score was tied at 24. With 2:30 left Oran was down 6, 30-24. A 7-1 run, though, got the team back to within 1 at the break, 31-30.
Oran managed a brief lead in the 3rd quarter by scoring the first 4 points out of the locker room. But after that, it was all East Prairie as they led by 5 after three and won the 4th period by 10.
Stanberry, who scored 26 the night before, had a game-high 20. He hit 2 from beyond the arc. Tyson Goodale, who was playing on a sprained ankle from the previous night, added 15.
Jakob Findley and Calen Read had 8 apiece, while Avery Mitchem chipped in 4.
Kaiden Massey, Carson Moyers and Tristin Schlosser saw action but did not score.
As a team, they were only 4 of 13 from the line for 31%. At one point, down the stretch in the final 7 minutes, they missed 4 in a row, 2 of which were front ends of one and ones, and a put back on rebounded miss free throw.
The younger squad is now 1-1 in league play and 2-3 in all games. They will be back in action on Thursday at Advance when they take on Bloomfield in the third place game at 5 pm.
During the nightcap, Oran led most of the way. They were up 17-13 after one and thanks to a Max Priggel buzzer-beating three just before halftime, 36-33 at the break. The lead was 6 after 3, 55-59.
In the fourth, the Eagles were up by as much as 9 and with 3:34 remaining they were up 6, 70-64 but couldn't hold on.
Head coach Joe Shoemaker said, "We shot well below our average from the perimeter and still had a chance to win the game which is positive. We had a lot of sloppy mistakes throughout the game which we have to clean up. I hope we learn from this and improve the next time we have a close game. We had some decisions late in the game and some execution late that we will work on improving in practice for the next time."
Priggel led all scorers with 27, including 2 treys. Jacob Shoemaker had 21 and Layne Johnson had 15 including 1 three-pointer.
Drew Reischman had 8 points and Cole Priggel added 6, including 4 for 4 from the line in the fourth quarter.
Bradley Brooks and Wyatt Kinney also saw action.
They were a very good 17 of 20 on free throw attempts for 85% but it was enough as they fell to 1-1 in conference play and 3-3 overall.
The varsity will be back in action on Friday when they host Delta at 6 pm. There will be no jayvee contest and it will be the last game before the seMissourian Christmas Tournament that begins December 26th.
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