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Mercer Green City

Cardinals M

Gophers G

The Green City (MO) varsity basketball team won Tuesday's home non-conference game against Mercer (MO) by a score of 68-32.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Mercer	-	-	-	-	32
Green City	-	-	-	-	68

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Game Stats

Mercer (23-24)

Mercer has not entered stats for this game.

Green City (23-24)

Green City

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	68	27	53	51	54
2	Xander Salas (Jr)	17	8	15	53	57
4	T. Harrison (Jr)	6	2	7	29	43
12	A. Buggs-Tipton (Sr)	16	6	9	67	67
14	Kaden Hatcher (Sr)	11	4	6	67	67
20	Aiden Campbell (Sr)	4	1	3	33	33
22	Noah Tipton (Jr)	8	3	4	75	75
25	Ivan Littrell (So)	0	0	1	0	0
32	Jaden O'Haver (Jr)	2	1	6	17	17
34	Preston Balfany (Jr)	4	2	2	100	100

Green City

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	68	3	13	23	11	13	85	24	40	60
2	Xander Salas (Jr)	17	1	3	33	0	0	0	7	12	58
4	T. Harrison (Jr)	6	2	7	29	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	A. Buggs-Tipton (Sr)	16	0	1	0	4	4	100	6	8	75
14	Kaden Hatcher (Sr)	11	0	2	0	3	4	75	4	4	100
20	Aiden Campbell (Sr)	4	0	0	0	2	3	67	1	3	33
22	Noah Tipton (Jr)	8	0	0	0	2	2	100	3	4	75
25	Ivan Littrell (So)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
32	Jaden O'Haver (Jr)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	17
34	Preston Balfany (Jr)	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100

Green City

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO
	Team Totals	68	11	17	28	17	21	2	11
2	Xander Salas (Jr)	17	1	1	2	5	6	0	0
3	Degen Wood (Fr)	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	2
4	T. Harrison (Jr)	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
5	Kaden Johnson (Sr)	0	1	1	2	1	2	0	2
12	A. Buggs-Tipton (Sr)	16	2	1	3	1	2	0	0
14	Kaden Hatcher (Sr)	11	1	7	8	2	2	1	4
20	Aiden Campbell (Sr)	4	1	1	2	1	1	0	0
22	Noah Tipton (Jr)	8	1	0	1	2	2	0	1
23	Zane Patterson (Fr)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
25	Ivan Littrell (So)	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	1
30	C. Ballinger (Fr)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
32	Jaden O'Haver (Jr)	2	2	0	2	1	2	0	0
34	Preston Balfany (Jr)	4	1	4	5	0	2	1	0

Green City

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO
	Team Totals	1.55	1.91
2	Xander Salas (Jr)	5.00	6.00
3	Degen Wood (Fr)	0.50	0.50
4	T. Harrison (Jr)	1.00	0.00
5	Kaden Johnson (Sr)	0.50	1.00
12	A. Buggs-Tipton (Sr)	1.00	2.00
14	Kaden Hatcher (Sr)	0.50	0.50
20	Aiden Campbell (Sr)	1.00	1.00
22	Noah Tipton (Jr)	2.00	2.00
23	Zane Patterson (Fr)	1.00	0.00
25	Ivan Littrell (So)	1.00	1.00
32	Jaden O'Haver (Jr)	1.00	2.00
34	Preston Balfany (Jr)	0.00	2.00

Game Story

Missouri High School Basketball - Green City overwhelms Mercer

December 5, 2023: Green City, MO 63545

Fans at Tuesday's non-league challenge between the Green City Gophers (Green City, MO) and the visiting Mercer Cardinals (Mercer, MO), saw Green City's basketball squad wallop Mercer by a tally of 68-32.

With the victory, Green City improves its record to 3-0 on the campaign. The Gophers host Grundy County/Newtown-Harris (Galt, MO) to confront the Panthers in a non-league challenge on Thursday, December 7. The Panthers come into the challenge with a record of 5-1. Grundy County/Newtown-Harris won 67-19 in their recent non-league challenge against Bevier (Bevier, MO)

Next up, the Cardinals confront the Tri-County Mustangs (Jamesport, MO) in a HDC challenge, on Friday, December 8. Mercer will attempt to improve on its 0-2 season record. The Mustangs come into the challenge with a 1-3 record after their 66-34 non-league loss to Pattonsburg (Pattonsburg, MO).

Players of the Game

Mercer (23-24)

Mercer has not selected any Players of the Game.

Green City (23-24)

Congratulations to #2 Xander Salas for being selected the Green City Basketball Player of the Game.

Rankings & Records

Mercer (23-24)

MO	Class
391	42

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
14-9	3-1	3-4	10-3	1-2	.609	.750	1,185	1,123

Green City (23-24)

MO	Class
44	2

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
28-3	8-0	9-0	8-1	11-2	.903	1.000	2,081	1,305

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Mercer	9.3	11.8	11.5	10.0	51.5
Green City	20.9	17.5	16.3	11.9	67.1

Team Stat Comparison

Mercer		Green City
-	Points Per Game	67.0
-	Rebounds Per Game	28.7
-	Assists Per Game	18.0
-	Steals Per Game	12.7
-	Blocks Per Game	3.0

Team Leaders

Mercer		Green City	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#12 Asher Buggs-Tipton21.8	4.9
-	Rebounds Per Game	#34 Preston Balfany5.4	2.6
-	Assists Per Game	#2 Xander Salas5.7	1.0
-	Steals Per Game	#12 Asher Buggs-Tipton2.6	0.8
-	Blocks Per Game	#34 Preston Balfany1.2	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Mercer	2-5		Green City	5-0

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
12/7/23	Mercer	Milan	(W) 50-41	1/11/24	Milan	Green City	(W) 62-23
12/18/23	Mercer	Linn County	(W) 61-47	2/6/24	Green City	Linn County	(W) 99-23
12/29/23	Princeton	Mercer	(L) 54-48	12/18/23	Green City	Princeton	(W) 61-38
1/25/24	Mercer	Grundy County/Newtown-Harris	(L) 66-50	11/30/23	Green City	Grundy County/Newtown-Harris	(W) 48-41
2/9/24	Mercer	Grundy County/Newtown-Harris	(L) 65-26	12/7/23	Grundy County/Newtown-Harris	Green City	(W) 66-50
2/12/24	Grundy County/Newtown-Harris	Mercer	(L) 57-42
2/23/24	Mercer	Grundy County/Newtown-Harris	(L) 50-27

Record Breakdown

M Mercer (23-24)		G Green City (23-24)
14-9	Overall	28-3
3-2	League	9-0
11-5	Non-League	9-2
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
2-5	Common Opponent	5-0
3-4	Home	9-0
10-3	Away	8-1
1-2	Neutral	11-2
0-0	Playoff	3-1
14-7	In-State	28-3
0-2	Out-of-State	0-0