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Raytown March Madness! Ray-South Wins District Championship
Though the District Championship game is the last win of this season after suffering defeat to the Bolivar Liberators 64-52 this past Tuesday, the Card’s win marks the first District win in over a decade! Last time they won it was back in 2003 when Bud Lathrop was still coaching. The Cardinals certainly play a different style of ball now than they did in the Lathrop years, as the players have more freedom to ad lib. It has taken some time to show whether a different style of play can be effective in the postseason. Despite the adversity of losing key players to injury the Cards managed a 17-10 winning season.
Throughout the entire postseason #34 Tyrone Gibbs played like a beast, #24 Elijah Childs showed flashes of unstoppability, and the entire Cards’ team played with fire, passion an intensity. But it was the little mistakes that kept them from pulling away from their opponents in each of their victories, eking one out against Marshall 69-64, and a nail-biter against Grandview where the game was decided by a free throw from Gibbs with 1.1 left on the clock putting the Cards up 69-68 to close out the game. These little mistakes wound up being their demise as they racked up too many fouls sending the Liberators to the free throw line where they scored
Ray-South District 14 Champs 20 of their 64 points, 15 of which were in the 4th quarter. The Cards do show signs of promise for next season as they return some really good players who now have some postseason experience. Ray-South loses seniors, #1 Ronyeah Sigars, #5 Sergio Mack, #14 Tony Sisco, #32
#24 Elijah Childs getting the sure 2 with under a minute to go
Dominic Herndon, and #34 Tyrone Gibbs.
Boilivar Liberators double-team on #24 Elijah Childs
Raytown’s Game A Heartbreaker
#4 Hezekiah Goodwin goes up and scoops it under for 2 pts
#34 Tyrone Gibbs swatting Bolivar’s Bryce Krueger
Wildcats Emerge As Champions Of The Raytown Youth Basketball League
The 4/5th grade elementary tournament of the Raytown Youth Basketball League concluded Saturday, March 7 with the Tigers playing the Wildcats for the championship. The game ended tied in regulation 14-14 and went to sudden death overtime. Seth Markley scored the winning free throw to claim the championship
for the Wildcats. The Wildcats were led in scoring by Seth Markley who scored 8 points. The Tigers were led by Wayne Baily who scored 8 points. The team members of the Wildcats were: Denzel Derico, Darren Franklin, Josiah Johnson, Seth Markley, Jason Parson, Andrew Porter, Logan Reichert, Ace Richardson, and David Thompson.
The team members of the Tigers were: Wayne Bailey, Thomas Hampton, Corderro Jimenez, Dominic Korycki, Demitris Maple, Luke Markley, Cameron Otto, Joey Talley, Luke Taylor, and Alex Wagstaff. Both teams were coached by Allan Markley and Travis Hux.
Photo by R.C. Jones Bluejays #5 John Burton for an uncontested goal Raytown also lost a heartbreaker to Lee’s Summit last Friday losing 79-67 in the District Championship game. Next year Raytown will be without many seniors who are the heart and soul of the team: #2
Cortez Hall, #5 John Burton, #12 Jailen Gill, #14 Rondale Dunn, #21 Will Nelson, #22 Jordan Rucker, #24 Eugene Walls, and #35 Brandon Sublett. We wish all the Seniors the best!