The Mamou Green Demons played the basketball
game Tuesday night against Pine Prairie looking like Mardi Gras riders without
a captain. They knew what they had to do but were missing that leader waive the
flag getting them where they needed to go. Thus they fell by a score of 76-53.
With the win, the Panthers increased their record to 19-5 on the season.
Luke Thomas from Mamou started the
scoring with 2-points at the 7:01 mark of the first quarter. Nathaniel Holland
quickly added another bucket along with a foul shot increasing the lead to
5-0. Javon Ardoin scored Pine Prairie’s
first points on the night from the charity stripe as he knocked down both free
throws at the 6:34 mark. Allen Myles brought the Panthers within a point with a
layup.
Ardoin knocked down a trey from the
top of the key giving Pine Prairie a 10-6 lead. Josh Freeman knocked down a
trey of his own from the corner of the key as Pine Prairie closed out the first
quarter with a 15-6 lead.
Sylus Carson highlighted the second
quarter driving from coast-to-coast and scoring for the Panthers. At the half
the Panthers led 37-17. Freeman added a coast-to-coast scoring play in the
third quarter increasing the lead to 52-28.
The fourth quarter saw both teams in
the bonus and saw the scoring go back-and-forth. In the end; though, it was
Pine Prairie who out physicalled Mamou.
Mamou coach John Jack thought, “we
started the game pretty good the first couple of minutes. It seemed like Pine
was coming with a slow start. The second quarter we just didn’t score any
points. We dug ourselves a hole too deep, and once they got going we just
couldn’t contain them.”
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