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No. 3 Cougars roll past Pratt, 100-72
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No. 3 Barton Community College handed Pratt Community College a 100-72 setback Saturday on Hall of Fame Night.

Barton (19-1, 13-1 Jayhawk) has won 10 consecutive games and drops Pratt (6-13, 4-10) into ninth place. Cloud County (15-5, 10-4) visits Great Bend Wednesday.

Ring Malith scored 20 points on 50% shooting including 4-of-7 behind the arc while contributing five steals.

Lajae Jones added 17 points and 8 rebounds in 19 minutes, scoring the game's first three points in front of his father and newly Hall of Fame inductee Jackie Jones and 2003 Hall of Fame inductee Dan McGovern.

Brent Moss scored 13 points keying a 20-point bench edge with 10 rebounds for his fourth double/double. The Cougars held plus-6 advantage on the glass.

Keandre Kindell dished off four assists with nine points. Barton passed out 22 assists on 34 buckets. Christian Bowen-Webb contributed nine points on 3-of-4 shooting from beyond the arc.

Cooper Jackson and Mozae Downing-Rivers dished out four assists. Jackson adding 10 points and two steals. Downing-Rivers scored five points including a step-back triple.

The Cougars converted 13 of 24 shots from 3-point range. Barton shot 52.3%. Pratt shot 43% from the field and made 8-of-22 shooting from 3-point land.

Pratt's Davonte "Bubba" Russ (19), Deon McLaughlin (18) and Zion Cruz (11) scored in double figures. 

Pratt’s TJ Nunnery, the younger brother of former Barton volleyball standout Tasiah Nunnery, scored four points on two thundering dunks. Great Bend native Sage Koelsch converted a free throw.

Barton trailed 8-7 before outscoring the Beavers by 21 points behind 7-of-14 shooting behind the arc.

Fending off a pair of Pratt early second half bursts cutting the deficit to thirteen, the Cougars responded with its own bursts pushing the gap back hovering the twenty point mark before taking its margin to its largest at twenty-eight late in the contest.

NOTES—Barton has won the last 4 in the series and 4-of-the-last-5 at the Barton Gym. Barton leads the series 45-11 at the Barton Gym. Barton leads the overall series 81-34

Pratt 29 43 — 72

Barton 49 51 — 100

PRATT (6-13, 4-10)—Russ 8-14 0-0 19, McLaughlin 7-12 1-2 18, Cruz 4-11 2-4 11, Smith 2-11 4-8 8, Nunnery 2-5 0-1 4, Robinson 2-7 0-0 5, Koelsch 0-1 1-3 1, Joes 0-1 0-0 0, Opareke 3-3 0-0 6, Totals 28-65 8-18 72.

BARTON (19-1, 13-1)—Malith 5-10 6-7 20, Jones 5-7 6-8 17, Moss 5-9 2-2 13, Jackson 4-8 0-0 10, Downing-Rivers 1-4 2-2 5, Thompson 4-8 1-3 9, Kindell 3-5 2-3 9, Bowen-Webb 3-5 0-0 9, Ndayisaba 0-2 0-0 0, Spray 0-0 0-0 0,.Surakat 2-3 0-0 4,, Bol 2-4 0-0 4, Totals 34-65 19-25 100.

3-pointers—P 8-22 (McLaughlin 3-5, Russ 3-6, Robinson 1-2, Cruz 1-4, Koelsch 0-1, Nunnery 0-1, Smith 0-3); B 13-24 (Malith 4-7, Bowen-Webb 3-4, Jackson 2-4, Downing-Rivers 1-1, Moss 1-1, Jones 1-2, Kindell 1-2, Ndayisaba 0-1, Bol 0-2). Rebounds—P 34 (Cruz 6, McLaughlin 6); B 40 (Moss 10). Assists—P 12 (Cruz 4); B 22 (Downing-Rivers 4, Jackson 4, Kindell 4). Steals—P 10 (Robinson 2, Opareke 2); B 10 (Malith 5). TO—P 16, B 13.

JAYHAWK MEN

Barton 13-1 19-1

Cowley 13-1 18-2

Hutchinson 11-2 16-3

Butler 10-3 15-4

Cloud 10-4 15-5

Garden City 9-5 13-7

Dodge City 5-10 7-14

Coffeyville 5-9 9-11

Pratt 4-10 6-13

Seward 4-10 6-14  

NW Tech 3-11 7-13

Colby 3-11 7-13

Independence 0-14 1-19

1-27—Barton 100, Pratt 72; Cloud 65, Coffeyville 55; Garden City 114, Independence 81; Cowley 91, Seward 68; Colby 77, Dodge City 67; Butler 81, NW Tech 78

1-31—Cloud at Barton; Hutchinson at Colby; Garden City at Pratt; Cowley at Coffeyville; Dodge City at Independence; Butler at Seward

2-2—Barton at Cowley; Pratt at Dodge City; Coffeyville at Butler; Cloud at Garden City; Seward at NW Tech; Independence at Hutchinson