By Tom Wheeler
The Christopher Bearcats defeated the Elverado Falcons 63 -34 in Elkville Tuesday night in their first Black Diamond Conference game.
The Falcons jumped out to a 13-9 first quarter lead and the Cats didn’t take the lead until 5: 03 in the second quarter when Tyler Atchison stole the ball and went in for a lay-up to tie the score at 17-17. After a Falcon turnover the Cats Eric Young rebound a miss shot and scored to put his team up 19-17. Atchison, the senior All -South football player, scored seven of his game high 19 points in that quarter and the Cats went in at half time winning 27-19.
The third quarter was a display of team basketball for CCHS as four players — Atchison, Young and seniors Kevin Mercks and RJ Kuh — each scored four points. But Elverado outscored the Cats by three in the quarter keeping the Cats lead at half down to 43-38.
With their defense turned up in the final quarter the Bearcats outscored the host 20-6 with Atchison leading the way with four field goals. This led the way for Coach Eric Stallman to clear his bench and everyone saw action. Besides Atchison’s 19, Young was also in double figures with 15 (also hit the Cats only three) as was senior center Kevin Mercks with 12. Others scoring included Kuh, 6, JT Towers 4, Josh Calloni 4, and Maurice Brown hit a free throw.
The Falcons were led in scoring by Kyle Whittington and Andrew Jeschke with 9, Kody Ellett and freshman Alec Valerius with 4, Josh Sarenson, Tyler Funk and Eli Fennell a bucket a piece and one free toss by Lucas Jones and freshman Brock Barnes.
Christopher’s JV team coached by Jeremy Varner won their first game of the year 40-21 over the Falcon JV squad. An oddity was that Elverado’s JV coach is Rob Kirk, the same Rob Kirk who was CZR’s freshman defensive coach this fall in football.
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