KOSCIUSKO —
The Durant Tigers would travel to Hartfield Academy last Tuesday night and then host McAdams on Friday night and Ingomar Saturday, winning two of the three contests.
The Tigers would defeat McAdams and Hartfield 52-34 and 52-31 respectively, while falling to Ingomar 65-38.
In the Hartfield contest the Tigers would take an 11-8 lead after one quarter of play.
The Tigers would outscore the Hawks in the second quarter 12-7 to take a 23-15 lead into the half.
The Tigers would continue to put up points in the third quarter and again outscored the Hawks 15-12 to take a 38-27 lead into the game’s final stanza.
The Tigers would pour it on in the fourth quarter and pulled away from the Hawks to take the contest 52-34.
The leading scorers for the Tigers were Theodore Haynes with 18 points, Timothy McClendon with 10 points and Schmarcus Steverson with nine points.
In the McAdams contest, the Tigers would find themselves tied after one quarter, 8-8. The Tiger offense would come alive in the second quarter when they outscored the Bulldogs 12-9 to take a 20-17 lead into the intermission.
The Tigers would come out of the half on fire and would pull away from the Bulldogs after scoring 17 points to the Bulldogs four.
The Tigers would now lead 37-21 to begin the fourth quarter.
Durant would score 15 points in the game’s final quarter to only 10 by the Bulldogs and won the contest 52-31.
The leading scorers for the Tigers were Theodore Haynes with 22 points, Denzel Rodgers with seven points and San Antonio Evans as well as Malcolm Brown with four points each.
The Tigers would host Ingomar on Saturday and found themselves quickly behind 10-5 after one quarter of play.
The Tigers would put 17 points on the board in the second quarter to Ingomar’s 10 points and would take a 22-20 lead into the half.
Ingomar would have none of this in the third quarter and outscored the Tigers 25-10 to take a 45-32 lead into the fourth.
Ingomar would score 20 points in the fourth quarter and stepped up defensively as well by only allowing the Tigers to score six points.
Ingomar would win the contest 65-38.
The leading scorers for the Tigers were Theodore Haynes with 15 points, Clay Roby with 10 points and Denzel Rodgers with five points.
The Tigers traveled to Jackson Tuesday to take on the MSD and will travel to Pelahatchie Friday night to take on the Chiefs at 5 p.m.
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