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The Hornets "Put the Sting"
on Yantis Owls and Lady Owls,
Tuesday Night

by: Bobby McDonald

It was an intense night of basketball action, on Tuesday night as the Yantis Owls and Lady Owls hosted neighboring rivals, the Miller Grove Hornets and Lady Hornets. Both the Hornets and Lady Hornets took a "W" home, across Schooley Creek, as they won both match-ups.

The Lady Owls, a mostly young team, struggled throughout the game, but the freshman and sophomore members of the team, learned some valuable lessons, as they played the stronger Lady Hornet Team. Final score was Miller Grove - 43 and Yantis Lady Owls - 20.

Stats from the Game include:

Miller Grove:

Haley Potts- 16 points
Mareyna Gallegos- 11 points
Nancy Del Castillo-6 points
Nicole Hall- 7 points
Holly Miller- 3 points

The first Quarter was 2 to 9 miller grove ahead
second quarter was 23 to 10 miller grove ahead
The Lady Hornets won the match-up 43-20

Yantis Varsity girls (last name only)

Vargas number 15: 3 points
Sandovall number 20: 6 points
Fernandez number 21: 5 points
Hurley number 22: 6 points

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As expected when the boys from Miller Grove and the boys from Yantis, meet-up, it is always going to be an intense rivalry, as the two teams play scrimmage ball all summer against each other and become very, very competitive, as well as good friends. "There's always a since of competition between the two schools because they've played so much together," allowed veteran Miller Grove Basketball Coach, Gary Billingsley. "We love to come to Yantis and Yantis loves to come to our place just to 'sharpen our skills' and play against each other. It's a great rivalry and one that the boys always look forward to having!"

And, Tuesday night's match-up proved to be just that. The Hornets led the match-up 6-4 at the end of the first quarter with an intense quarter of defensive play. However, it was in the second quarter that the Hornets managed to move ahead of the Owls, scoring 15 points as opposed to the Owl's meager six points in the quarter. The Hornets led at halftime 21-10.

However, there was no let-up on the Yantis Owl's part, during the second half of the ballgame, as they came back strong. The third quarter found Yantis putting

11 points on the board, and only allowing the Hornets nine additional points. Then, during the fourth period, the Owls added another 13 points to their cause, but the Hornets managed an additional 14 points to win the game 44-34. The "flat" second quarter by the Owls, cost them the game.