by Steve Dunford – franklincounty-news.com
The Thompsonville Tigers had a very good week last week as they split in in two road games, both are not the easiest places to play as visitors.
Tyson Kessler pulls up and hits a three to cut it to a one possession game late in the fourth quarter. (Help me out here) (thompsonvilletigers-YouTube feed)
T’ville gives. a very good Crab Orchard (14-5) team all they wanted Tuesday night 53-47. I think it is worth mentioning the Trojans made the long trip to play 2A Vandaila on Saturday night and beat the Vandals.
Tuesday night Freshman Corbin Fitch led the Tigers with 23 points. The 5′ 11″sophomore point guard had a double double on the night. He had 13 points and 14 rebounds. Anthony Darge is becoming more and more of a force in the paint every day. The 6′ 7″ sophomore center had ten blocks on the night.
Caleb Vaughn led all scorers with 24 points on the night for the Trojans. McKegar Ferrell added eight on the night.
Here is what Tiger coach Pete Gordon had to say about last Tuedsay night’s game “I couldn’t have been more proud of how our boys competed. If it had not been for a slow start for us I really feel like we could have pulled one out. There were times when we could have folded, but we kept fighting. We had it cut to three late but came up a tad short. Now we have to build from this and find a way to win.”
The Tigers found the way to win in a 49-41 win down at Cobden on Friday night. The win ended an eight game skid for Thompsonville.
Tyson Kessler had a big night for the Tigers again as he scored 17 points on the night. Anthoney Darge added 14 points, nine rebounds and six blocked shots for T’ville. John Russell scored 19 and Dylan Lewey added nine to lead the Appleknockers.
Anthnoy Darge jumping center to tip things off down at Cobden Friday night for the Tigers . In the picture is 24 Jared Payne, 35 Cory Wilce, 23 Tyson Kessler and 4 Corbin Fitch “in blue.” (thompsonvilletigers Youtube feed.)
Coach Pete Gordon had this to say about the win down at Cobden Friday night. I am so proud of their effort. “Darge was huge. We cut down on on the turnovers, shot great shots. and executed well. We made enough Free-throws down the stretch to pull out a win.”
The Tigers dropped a 65-44 decision to Gallatin County in the opening round of the GEC tournament last night. They fell to 4-13 on the season. There is a story from last night’s game posted on the website from Jack Bullock of abaselineview.com They will face Carrier Mills in the consolation bracket at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday at Southeastern Illinois College.
CRAB ORCHARD BOX
CRAB ORCHARD (53) Vaughn 3 2 12-17 24; Ferrell 3 0 2-5 8: Beasley 3 0 0-3 6; Stephens 0 1 2-2 5; Franklin 1 0 3-4 5; Vinson 0 0 0-0 0
THOMPSONVILLE (47) Fitch 3 3 8-16 23; Kessler 2 1 6-10 13; Darge 2 0 0-0 4; Raubach 0 1 0-0 3; Payne 1 0 0-0 2; Wilce 1 0 0-0 2
SCORE BY QUARTERS
CRAB ORCHARD- 8 15 18 12 – 53
THOMPSONVILLE- 3 11 18 15 – 47
COBDEN BOX
THOMPSONVILLE (49) Kessler 4 0 9-16 17; Darge 7 0 0-1 14; Fitch 2 0 4-9 8; Payne 1 0 2-2 4; Wilce 0 0 2-3 2; Dixon 1 0 0-0 2; Raubach 1 0 0-0 2
COBDEN (41) Russell 3 3 3-4 18; D. Lewey 2 1 2-2 9; Eck 2 0 2-2 6; A Lewey 2 0 0-1 4; Brumleve 1 0 0-0 2; Nance 0 0 2-2 2 Duty 0 0 0-0 0; Britt 0 0 0-0 0
SCORE BY QUARTERS
THOMPSONVILLE- 13 10 11 15 – 49
COBDEN- 7 15 6 13 – 41
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