The Lady Tigers and Tigers split a home matchup with Macon County Saturday afternoon as DeKalb dropped the opener but pulled out an exciting fourth-quarter win in the closer.
Macon Co. Tigerettes 66
DeKalb Co. Lady Tigers 51
The Lady Tigers started the game strong against the Tigerettes, leading by a bucket after the first quarter 17-15 as they fought for more boards but struggled on inside conversions.
Macon took advantage of this to change the tempo just before the half and both teams went to the locker room knotted at 33 points apiece.
Pressing harder on defense, the Tigerettes slowly pulled away from the Lady Tigers in the second half as Macon built on the rally they started before the break, stepping up their defense in the process.
DeKalb didn’t have an answer for Macon’s Keely Carter, who had a game-high 28 points.
Scoring for the Lady Tigers were Emme Colwell with 23 points, Lydia Brown 11, Megan Walker 8, Joni
Robinson 6 and Madison Parsley scored 3.
DeKalb County Tigers 56
Macon County Tigers 52
It was a barn-burner Saturday when the Tigers played host to Macon County, as they held off a late-game push by Macon to win in the last minute of the fourth quarter.
With a five-point cushion after three, Macon got within a bucket of DeKalb 54-52 with just under three minutes in the contest.
Macon travelled with 45 seconds left in the game, turning the ball over to DeKalb and some good boards by Tiger Marshall Evins kept the rock in DeKalb’s possession even longer.
Another turnover by Macon put the ball in Marshall Evins’ capable hands and with 5 seconds remaining, Macon fouled Evins in a last-ditch effort, hoping he wouldn’t make either shot.
Evins hit the rim on his first attempt, but his second shot found the net making it a two-score game.
Macon tried to throw it in the length of the court for a basketball Hail Mary, but Evins was at the receiving end and killed the clock.
Austin Johnson led the offense with 15 points for DeKalb with teammate Poss just behind with 14 total points.
Colter Norris scored 9, Nathan Atkins 8, Evins 7 and Trey Jones scored 2 points.
Seth Carlise led Macon’s scoring with 15 points.
