SPORTS

On Friday, January 30 White County's Warriors took on Upperman's Bees. The Warriors put up a hard fight coming up short losing 49-64.

The Warriors started off the first quarter strong offensively and defensively scoring 21 points while only allowing the Bees 12 points on the other end.

In this first quarter we saw Cole Sims ('27) find the goal the most scoring 8 points for the Warriors. Following Sims was Jack Carpenter ('27) with 6 points, Lukas Smith ('26) with 5 points, and Mason Steele ('26) with 2 points.

On the other side of the court the Bees were led by Ty Cobb who had 6 points, followed by C. Bush with 3 points, C. Phillips with 2 points, and J. Maynard with 1 point.

Going into the second quarter, the Warriors weren’t able to open up offensively as much, only scoring 5 points while the Bees were able to score 15 on the other end.

Scoring for White County in this quarter was Sims with 3 points and Mason Steele with 2 points.

Scoring the Bees was, once again, Ty Cobb, with 10 points, followed by J. Torrence with 3 points, and C. Johnson with 2 points.

This left the score going into half time 26-27, the Warriors trailing behind by one point to the Bees.

Coming out of half time, White County was still not able to find the goal, only scoring 11 points while Upperman was able to score 21. 

Steele stepped up in this quarter scoring 5 points. Following Steele was Sims and Carpenter who both scored a three-pointer. 

On the other hand, the Bees were able to have Ty Cobb find the goal once again scoring 8 points. Following Cobb scoring was J. Torrence with 5 points, C. Johnson with 4 points, and F. Sissom and J. Maynard both having 2 points apiece.

This left the score going into the final quarter 37-48, White County down by 11 points hoping to make a comeback.

The Warriors were unable to come back, only scoring 12 points while the Bees led this quarter scoring 16 points.

Scoring in this final quarter for the Warriors was Sims leading with 7 points, followed by Carpenter with 3 points, and Steele with 2 points.

On the other side scoring for the Bees was C. Bush with 6 points, C. Johnson with 4 points, J. Maynard with 3 points, and Cobb scoring 3 points.

This left the final score as 49-64, improving from their original face-off where the score ended at 27-63 with the Bees winning.

When talking to head coach Eric Mitchell about this improvement from the previous game where he said, “We had a good game plan defensively, they played extremely hard, we just had too many turnovers… We fought hard and we know we can play with the number one team in the state. We just need to come in and do that night in, night out.”

Leading the Warriors scoring this game was Sims, who had 21 points. When asked about what his mindset was Sims said, “Going in I knew we had to score the ball while taking good shots, so that's just what I tried to help the team do.”

The Warriors look to have another district face-off where they will play Stone Memorial Panthers on Tuesday, February 3rd.