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Mt. Pleasant basketball teams swept by Burlington
Panther boys and girls fall to 0-1 in SEC play
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MT. PLEASANT — Mt. Pleasant Community High School was the site of a Highway 34 clash on Friday night. Burlington came into Mt. Pleasant for the Southeast Conference openers, both of which went the Grayhounds’ way.
Burlington won a competitive boys game 53-47. The Grayhound girls rolled 74-32.
The Mt. Pleasant boys trailed 14-8 after one quarter and 19-18 at halftime. The Panthers held a short-lived lead at the start of the third, going ahead 20-19 on a layup by Noah Lange.
The Panthers, however, couldn’t hold on to the lead in the third. Burlington jumped back ahead 39-30 after three periods, and despite some excitement in the last couple of minutes, Mt. Pleasant never earned the lead back.
“We're super young, and it's something that's going to take some time,” said Mt. Pleasant boys basketball coach Eric Rawson. “We had a lead early in the third quarter, and again our youth was exposed. We were unable to stretch that out.”
Despite the loss, Lange and Aiden Humble scored 18 points each. Brody Clark scored seven points. Ian Reid had three, and Keegan Heaton finished with one.
The Panther girls, already shorthanded with two big injuries to Abby Carthey and Tori Wilson, were even more-so on Friday night, as leading scorer Kynlee White was unavailable.
The Panthers couldn’t keep up with the Grayhounds from the get-go. Burlington scored the first 11 points, led 21-8 after one, 42-19 at halftime and 61-26 after three periods.
“They're giving us everything they've got,” said Panther girls’ coach Curt Watson about his team. “We're just asking a lot of freshman and sophomores right now.”
Addison Clark led the Panthers with nine points. Alexa Fuller had eight. Paityn Ensminger scored five. Myth Starr had four, and both Keagyn Coleman and Abigail Shelangoski had three.
