Basketball Recap: Boonville Skates Past Tri-County with Ease

Pirates

Previous 5 Games

02/10/25 vs Tri-County	75-37
02/04/25 vs New Franklin	56-42
02/03/25 @ Marshall	75-29
01/30/25 vs Fatima	53-30
01/23/25 vs Blair Oaks	68-27

Boonville had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 31 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Monday. They took their matchup with ease, bagging a 75-37 win over the Tri-County Mustangs. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Missouri basketball rankings (they are ranked 114th, while the Mustangs are ranked 394th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Boonville's victory bumped their record up to 14-8. As for Tri-County, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 7-7.

Coming up, Boonville is taking a road trip to face off against California at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. California will roll in looking for their seventh straight win, something Boonville surely won't give up without a fight. As for Tri-County, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 44-37 loss against Grundy County/Newtown-Harris on the 10th.