- Grady’s basketball teams were back in action this week following the Thanksgiving holiday.
Some of the Wildcat teams continued dominating opponents while some of the other teams looked like they ate too much turkey and were still sluggish.
Grady’s junior high girls were amazing getting a win over Loop.
The Lady Cats defensive forced numerous turnovers and had three shutout quarters in the 42-3 victory.
Scorers for Grady: Brooklen Rivas 7 Kinley Cox 1 Davalynne Mendoza 11 Brooklyn Teeters 4 Brynlee Madison 19 The junior varsity Lady Cats played Coahoma in the first game back.
“We did some good things, but we couldn’t get some of our shots to fall,” stated coach Jym Dennis.
Coahoma took advantage of Grady’s shooting struggles winning 27-7.
Scorers for Grady: Miah Muniz 2 Aislynne Mendoza 2 Aliah Deanda 3 Grady’s varsity girls had a rough second quarter allowing Coahoma a decisive halftime lead.
“I thought we were a little rusty coming off the break. We started pretty good in the first quarter but had too many turnovers in the second that allowed Coahoma to take a big lead in to half. We fought back but could never catch all the way up,” said Dennis.
Coahoma went on ato win 50-34.
Scorers for Grady: Raegan Dennis 6 Emma Parker 10 Jessi Everett 6 Samantha Griffin 7 Delaney Saunders 4 Mia Najera 1 The final game of the night was the Grady varsity boys.
The Wildcats couldn’t buy a bucket and trailed 19-8 at halftime, but rallied back and managed to make the end of the game interesting.
“This was not a good offensive night for us. We were 8 of 44 for the night (8 of 31 on 2 pt FG’s and 0 for 13 from the 3pt FG’s). This was a tough loss,” said coach Chris Short. “We did play very solid defense, that still gave us a chance in the 4th quarter to win the game. I hope we got that out of our system and will be ready for the upcoming games.”
Coahoma’s lead proved too much in the final seconds as the Bulldogs clipped the more talented Wildcats 3530.
Grady drops to 3-1 on the season.
Scoring; Logan Aaron 8 Austin Aaron 6 Quint Harrell 2 Chapman Sims 7 Blaise Warren 3 Colt Carson 4 Coming up for the Wildcats will be the Tahoka Tournament Thur. @ 11:10 am vs O’Donnell Friday @ 8:30 am vs Sudan Friday @ 12:30 pm vs Morton Sat. @ 9:50 am vs Forsan