The Kingston girls basketball team survived a pair of tight decisions to start the season while the Redskin squad settled for a split of contests after seeing a fourth quarter lead slip away.
In their season opener, the Lady Redskins rallied from a halftime deficit to slide by Atoka, 44-40, and followed with a 48-44 overtime nailbiter tobeatAda.Meanwhile, Coach Bobby McAdoo’s boys unit blasted through Atoka, 70-32, but couldn’t hold off Ada in a 51-47 loss on Friday night.
Both teams will return to action on the road Thursday in the Dale Tournament before visiting Madill on Tuesday for their final action before the holiday break. The LadyRedskinsmeetKieferin the tournament first round at 1 p.m. with the boys slated to meet Elgin at 2:30.
Girls Trailing 19-18 at intermission in game one, Kingston finally took the lead for good on a Joley Heydon conventional three point play just past the midway point of the third stanza. That play ignited a 7-0 flurry by the Lady Redskins and Atoka never got any closer than one point down the stretch.
Kingston struggled at the charity stripe in the final frame, sinking only 11 of 22 free throws, but hit just enough as Heydon’s pair at the line with 4.7 seconds to play iced the triumph.
Heydon pumped in 16 as the lone Lady Redskin in double figures for the game. Taylie Wiebener contributed eight, Avery Ludrick had six, Cassidy Walker scored five, Coby Davis had four, Kate Ratzlaff chipped in three and Audrey Hughes tallied two.
TheAdacontestwasmuch the same in a toe-to-toe slugfest as Kingston was up 9-6 after one quarter and 22-21 at intermission before seeing the visitors take a 31-30 edge to the final period.
CassidyWalkerscoredthe only Kingston baskets of the fourth, pitching a pair of field goals with the hosts canning six of eight free throws to force overtime knotted at 40.
Walker tossed in three in the extra frame with Wiebener and Ratzlaff tallying key charity tosses to seal the win.
It was a balanced attack for Kingston with Walker pacing three in double figures with 13 points. Ludrick pitched in 11 and Heydon scored10.Theyalsopickedup nine from Kate Ratzlaff and five by Wiebener while improving to 2-0 on the season. Boys Kingston raced out of the gate against Atoka, scoring the first 14 points of the contest in a little over two minutes and never looked back during the romp.
The Redskins played everyone in uniform as they piled up 27 points after one period and 47 at the half while cruising through the second half with reserves most of the way.
Eleven different players all got in on the scoring for Kingston, spurred by 16 from Blane Henry. Sam Walker also reached double digits with 10 points.
Lander Burkhalter and Brock Rumer contributed nine apiece with Hudson Everhart, Ty Jones and Hayden Seeney all finishing with six points. Reid Patterson scored three as Gage Brown and Kase McAdams had two each while Cash Davis chipped in one.
It was a back-and-forth battle with Ada in the week one finale as Kingston trailed 12-7 after one period before outscoring the Cougars by a 17-11 count in the second frame to take the lead. Rumer’s eight points proved key in giving Kingston a 2423 edge at the half.
The Redskins continued to turn it on fueled by three Everhart baskets in the third quarter to push the margin to 40-31 heading into the final frame where they went cold.
Rumer scored five in the last stanza but the only other points from Kingston came on an Everyhart basket as Ada rallied with a decisive 20-7 flurry.
Leadingthescoringcharge for Kingston was Rumer’s 17 points with Seeney pumping in nine, Everhart eight and Burkhalter seven. Henry managed three points as did Patterson.