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St. John girls win, Tiger boys lose
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Tiger track qualifies five

ST. JOHN GIRLS 48, KIOWA COUNTY 32 — St. John's Regan Bonner scorched Kiowa County with 21 points and five 3-pointers in  48-32 non-league basketball victory over Kiowa County. Bonner started the game with four consecutive 3-pointers for an 18-7 lead. Gentri Bright scored 14 points for the Tigers (3-3).

Kiowa County's Norma Espericeta scored 16 points. 

St. John 18 9 10 11 — 48

Kiowa County 7 9 2 14 — 32

ST. JOHN (3-3)—Bonner 8 (5) 0-0 21; Bright 7 0-0 14; Rochenbach 2 (1) 2-2 7; Brummer 0 4-4 4; Fischer 1 0-0 2; Totals 18 (6) 6-6 48

KIOWA COUNTY (2-4)—Norma Espericeta 6 (1) 3-4 16; Taylor 3 (2) 0-0 8; Hassiepen 3 (1) 0-0 7; Jantzen 0 1-6 1; Totals 12 (4) 4-10 32

KIOWA COUNTY 58, ST. JOHN 45 — Kiowa County's boys dominated St. John 30-5 in the final 10 minutes with near-perfect execution to erase the Tigers' 40-28 lead in Friday's non-league basketball game. The Mavericks executed flawlessly offensively and shut down the Tigers offense.

Kiowa County's Boone McDonald scored 11 fourth-quarter points to ignite a 17-0 scoring run to start the fourth quarter. McDonald scored 19 points and Sawyer Campbell added 18 points.

St. John's Emmett Delp scored 17 points. St. John controlled the game for three quarters with a patient offensive flow. The Tigers were outscored 12-0 on 3-pointers.

St. John 17 12 13 3 — 45

Kiowa County 12 10 13 24 — 58

ST. JOHN (4-2)—Delp 6 5-7 17; Mawhirter 3 0-2 6; Braxon Alpers 3 1-2 7; Ibarra 2 0-2 4; Reyes 2 1-1 5; Easton Alpers 1 0-0 2; Lozano 2 0-0 4; Totals 19 7-13 45

KIOWA COUNTY (4-2)—Campbell 8 2-3 18; McDonald 5 (1) 8-9 19; Frazier 1 1-2 3; Roenbaugh 1 0-0 2; Hogan 4 (2) 0-2 9; Charter 2 (1) 1-2 6; Koss 0 1-2 1; Totals 21 (4) 13-20 58