Eagles and Lady Eagles win on Tuesday in Early Bird Tournament
October 28, 2014
Evensville, TN — The Rhea Middle School teams both won in the Rhea Middle Early Bird Tournament on Tuesday night. The Boys’ team won 39-29 and the Girls’ team won 48-2. The Eagles had lost a very close game on Monday night by 34-32. The Girls’ team lost on Monday to Cleveland. The Lady Eagles will in back in action on Thursday night at 5:30 against Ocoee Middle School. There will be Championship Bracket games on Saturday based on results from the pool play during the week. Those games begin at 9 am and continue to the last scheduled start at 4:00 pm.
In the Boys game on Monday, they began very well for the Eagles as they scored the first 12 points of the game and came within a few seconds of pitching a shutout for the first quarter but Cleveland hit a late three to put the first quarter score at 12-3. In the second quarter Cleveland made a run to cut the 12 point lead down to 6 at 20-14 with their 11-8 advantage for the quarter.
The third quarter was a draw at 8-8 and at the end of three it was 28-22. Rhea Middle closed out strong with 11-7 advantage to give the Eagles a final 39-29 score.
The Eagles received very balanced scoring in this game. Kannon Oggs scored 11 to lead but Davin Lytle was close behind with 9 and Dylan Palmerino and Brandon Leal each added 8 points for the game. Also contributing was Carter White with 3 points. Head Coach for the Eagles is Lebron Herd.
The Lady Eagles had a tremendous game against Chilhowee Middle School with a 48-2 win. Mallory Hampton tallied 11 points to lead the Lady Eagles. Haley Cameron had 10, Jace Stone 8 and Macy Welch and Mariah Martin had 6 each. Zyon Smith had 4, Sydney Jenkins 3 and Maddie Smith had 2 points to round out the scoring. Head Coach for the Lady Eagles is Tony Williams.
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