Potts Camp sweeps Ashland

Potts Camp basketball teams won two of three games last week.

The Lady Cardinals and Cardinals swept both Myrtle and Ashland and then lost to Mooreville.

Potts Camp-Myrtle The offenses were running full speed when the Potts Camp girls hosted Myrtle Tuesday, Dec. 7, to start Region 2-2A play. The Lady Cards got a combined 61

points from Raykiah Stricklen and Malasha Faulkner in an 81-75 win.

“They are getting it done,” coach Zana Davis said about the team’s leading scorers. “They feed off each other.”

The Potts Camp girls started slowly, falling behind 21-11 at the end of the first. They then outscored the Lady Hawks 27-18 in the second to pull within one at halftime. They continued their pace in the third, going ahead 57-52 and then snatching the six-point win.

Stricklen finished with 33 points. She was 17 of 24 from the free-throw line. Falkner tallied 28, including five three-pointers.

Myrtle’s Kinsley Gordon was the game’s high-scorer with 48 points.

The Potts Camp boys also had a high-scoring night, rolling past Myrtle 8046.

Four Cardinals scored in double figures ­ Josh Blake with 14, Zykeldrick Hamer with 12, Jamie Muse with 11 and Brayden Clifton with 10.

Potts Camp built a comfortable 41-26 halftime lead and then coasted in the next 16 minutes, outscoring the Hawks 39-20.

Potts Camp-Ashland

The Lady Cardinals had no trouble with the Lady Devils Thursday at home, thanks in large part to Faulkner’s offensive outburst. She scored 33 points in a 65-25 rout. Ashland didn’t get its first field goal until the 2:23 mark of the first quarter. Potts Camp led 16-3. The score was 35-15 at the halfway mark and 54-22 at the end of the third. Jakeidra Lesure added 11 points for the Lady Cards. The top scorer for the Lady Blue Devils was Morgan Crutcher with eight.

The Potts Camp and Ashland boys hooked up in a barnburner with the Cardinals coming out on top, 75-65.

It didn’t look good in the early going for coach Rashad Shannon’s Cards.

The Blue Devils hit four threes in the first quarter and stormed to a 25-14 lead. Quintavious Cotton and Aaron Greer each nailed a pair of long-range shots.

Potts Camp made a run in the second quarter, cutting the halftime deficit to 3631. Blake led the rally, including a bucket at the buzzer.

The Cardinals’ relentless defensive heat forced Blue Devil turnovers in the third, and they resulted in points for the home squad. Blake’s two points off a steal gave Potts Camp its first lead, 41-39, at the 5:20 mark, and they kept on rolling from there and won by 10.

Blake was dominant. He poured in 38 points, 24 of those in the second half.

Hitting in double digits for Ashland were Cotton with 26 and Greer with 17.

Potts Camp-Mooreville

A close match-up throughout Friday night in Potts Camp went the way of the Mooreville girls, 48-43.

The Lady Cards were down 12-8, 24-23 at halftime and 37-32 after three.

Faulkner scored 28 of Potts Camp’s 43 points.

The Cardinals and Troopers collided in a close one in the nightcap, too, with Potts Camp falling 65-60.

Potts Camp trailed 41-36 at halftime. Both teams scored 24 in the second half.

The top gun for the Cards was Blake with 22. Also in double digits were Quentavis Martin and Muse with 11 each.

The Lady Cardinals (7-5, 1-0 in district) and Cardinals (6-8, 1-0) visited Strayhorn Tuesday in district action. The boys will play in the All-American Shootout at Tupelo Saturday.