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Bland Big Sandy

Tigers

Wildcats

The Big Sandy (TX) varsity basketball team lost Thursday's neutral tournament game against Bland (Merit, TX) by a score of 60-30.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Bland	-	-	-	-	60
Big Sandy	-	-	-	-	30

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Game Stats

Bland (23-24)

Bland has not entered stats for this game.

Big Sandy (23-24)

Big Sandy

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Min	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	161	30	13	44	30	33
1	S. Johnson (Sr)	20	4	2	8	25	25
2	Alaysia Estes (Sr)	27	9	4	9	44	50
3	Kali Yarbrough (So)	8	0	0	1	0	0
5	Kinzlee Hill (So)	6	0	0	0
11	K. Mccartney (Jr)	20	0	0	1	0	0
14	Landri Wade (Fr)	24	2	1	9	11	11
21	Journie Plunket (Jr)	25	8	3	9	33	44
23	R. Higginbotham (Sr)	17	5	2	3	67	67
24	A. Whitfield (Sr)	14	2	1	4	25	25

Big Sandy

#	Athlete Name	Min	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	161	30	3	16	19	1	7	14	10	28	36
1	S. Johnson (Sr)	20	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	7	29
2	Alaysia Estes (Sr)	27	9	1	4	25	0	1	0	3	5	60
3	Kali Yarbrough (So)	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0
5	Kinzlee Hill (So)	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	K. Mccartney (Jr)	20	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Landri Wade (Fr)	24	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	6	17
21	Journie Plunket (Jr)	25	8	2	7	29	0	2	0	1	2	50
23	R. Higginbotham (Sr)	17	5	0	0	0	1	2	50	2	3	67
24	A. Whitfield (Sr)	14	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	25

Big Sandy

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Min	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF
	Team Totals	161	30	11	17	28	9	6	2	26	13
1	S. Johnson (Sr)	20	4	4	4	8	5	1	0	3	3
2	Alaysia Estes (Sr)	27	9	0	1	1	0	1	0	6	1
3	Kali Yarbrough (So)	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
5	Kinzlee Hill (So)	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
11	K. Mccartney (Jr)	20	0	0	2	2	2	1	0	3	3
14	Landri Wade (Fr)	24	2	2	0	2	2	2	0	4	2
21	Journie Plunket (Jr)	25	8	3	3	6	0	1	0	2	2
23	R. Higginbotham (Sr)	17	5	1	4	5	0	0	1	2	0
24	A. Whitfield (Sr)	14	2	1	2	3	0	0	1	2	2

Big Sandy

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:F	Blk:PF	Defl
	Team Totals	0.35	0.23	0.46	0.15	3
1	S. Johnson (Sr)	1.67	0.33	0.33	0.00	1
2	Alaysia Estes (Sr)	0.00	0.17	1.00	0.00	0
11	K. Mccartney (Jr)	0.67	0.33	0.33	0.00	0
14	Landri Wade (Fr)	0.50	0.50	1.00	0.00	2
21	Journie Plunket (Jr)	0.00	0.50	0.50	0.00	0
23	R. Higginbotham (Sr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	0
24	A. Whitfield (Sr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.50	0

Game Story

Texas High School Basketball - Big Sandy trounced by Bland

December 28, 2023: Merit, TX 75458

The Bland Tigers routed the visiting Big Sandy Wildcats basketball team by a final score of 60-29 in Thursday's non-league game.

In their next game, the Tigers face the Wolfe City Wolves (Wolfe City, TX) in a 2A Region II District 14 game, on Tuesday, January 2. Bland will attempt to move on its 14-4 season record. The Wolves enter the game with a 8-11 record after their 59-10 non-league loss to Van Alstyne (Van Alstyne, TX).

With the defeat, Big Sandy moves to 4-17 on the year. The Wildcats travel to Ector (Ector, TX) to face the Eagles in a non-league game on Friday, December 29. The Eagles enter the game with a record of 1-17. Ector lost 31-17 in their recent league game against Savoy (Savoy, TX)

Players of the Game

Bland (23-24)

Bland has not selected any Players of the Game.

Big Sandy (23-24)

Congratulations to #2 Alaysia Estes for being selected the Big Sandy Girls Basketball Player of the Game.

Bland vs Big Sandy Basketball Game Info

Thu., Dec. 28, 2023 @ 2:15p

Ector Holiday Tournament

The Big Sandy (TX) varsity basketball team lost Thursday's neutral tournament game against Bland (Merit, TX) by a score of 60-30.

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Rankings & Records

Bland (23-24)

TX	Section	State Div.
697	157	78

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
24-8	10-4	10-1	6-5	8-2	.750	.714	1,492	1,016

Big Sandy (23-24)

TX	Section	State Div.
1,481	678	206

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
6-28	2-10	3-9	1-8	2-11	.176	.167	960	1,570

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Bland	13.8	9.0	9.3	10.0	46.6
Big Sandy	8.0	6.5	8.7	6.2	28.2

Team Stat Comparison

Bland		Big Sandy
-	Points Per Game	28.1
-	Rebounds Per Game	28.4
-	Assists Per Game	6.4
-	Steals Per Game	8.6
-	Blocks Per Game	1.9

Team Leaders

Bland		Big Sandy	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#2 Alaysia Estes6.9	4.2
-	Rebounds Per Game	#22 Jazymne Brown6.5	2.8
-	Assists Per Game	#2 Alaysia Estes1.8	0.9
-	Steals Per Game	#2 Alaysia Estes2.2	1.1
-	Blocks Per Game	#23 Reggie Higginbotham0.6	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Bland	6-0		Big Sandy	1-5

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
11/16/23	Miller Grove	Bland	(W) 62-23	11/30/23	Big Sandy	Miller Grove	(L) 20-14
11/16/23	Bland	Fruitvale	(W) 64-28	11/7/23	Big Sandy	Fruitvale	(L) 34-25
				11/30/23	Fruitvale	Big Sandy	(L) 49-21
11/28/23	Bland	Ector	(W) 45-15	12/29/23	Ector	Big Sandy	(W) 33-32
12/28/23	Bland	Ector	(W) 47-19
1/12/24	Bland	Whitewright	(W) 40-25	12/29/23	Whitewright	Big Sandy	(L) 38-17
2/6/24	Whitewright	Bland	(W) 55-39	12/30/23	Whitewright	Big Sandy	(L) 52-18

Record Breakdown

Bland (23-24)		Big Sandy (23-24)
24-8	Overall	6-28
10-4	League	2-10
4-2	Non-League	2-7
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
6-0	Common Opponent	1-5
10-1	Home	3-9
6-5	Away	1-8
8-2	Neutral	2-11
0-1	Playoff	0-0
22-8	In-State	5-27
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0