Going 606: Pikeville, Breathitt County punch tickets to All “A” Final
Pikeville and Breathitt County will play in the Boys’ All “A” Classic final on Sunday at 2:00 P.M. Here’s how we got there.
Pikeville 59, Evangel Christian 33
Rylee Samons scored 27 points and #15 Pikeville walloped Evangel Christian 59-33 to set up an All-606 All “A” Final. Samons scored 17 of Pikeville’s 23 first-half points to help the Panthers take a 23-21 lead into the locker room.
Nick Robinson and Tate Walters keyed a 15-2 run to start the second half that virtually put the game away.
Leading 30-23, Robinson missed a free throw but outmaneuvered the four Evangel Christian rebounders to put back his own miss. There were no other Pikeville players for ECA to box out but they failed to block out Robinson. It was that kind of night for Evangel.
Robinson cashed in another layup, then Walters got a steal and run-out layup forcing a timeout. Another Walters transition layup capped the spurt. Pikeville used easy transition points and the deep ball to put the Eagles away.
Samons was 7-for-11 from deep, Robinson chipped in 10 points and 11 boards, and Laithan Hall added eight assists for the Panthers.
Breathitt County 63, Harlan 61
Austin Sperry had 26 points and six dimes, Bryce Hoskins was clutch down the stretch, and the Breathitt County Bobcats withstood 29 points from Jordan Akal to defeat Harlan 63-61.
The Dragons started the game on a 10-1 run and used hot shooting from Akal and Kaleb McClendon to build a 36-27 halftime lead. Akal had four first-half 3-pointers.
Sperry keyed the big second-half comeback with hot shooting and straight-line drives. He also played good defense on Akal, limiting him to nine points (and zero 3s) in the second half.
After a Christian Collins free throw put the Bobcats up one, big man Bryce Hoskins’ defense turned away two Harlan layups with 16 seconds left. Hoskins grabbed the rebound and cooly drained two free throws to push the margin to three.
Akal countered with a layup with five seconds left to cut the margin to one, but it was too little too late as Breathitt County added a free throw and Harlan was unable to get off a final shot.
The Bobcats got the crowd involved with several impressive dunks from Sperry and Collins. Collins finished with 14 points and McClendon finished with 12 points on four three-pointers for Harlan. The Dragons led 59-54 in the fourth quarter but missed several shots down the stretch.
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