After starting their season with two straight games on the road, Cocke County is finally coming home. They will be defending their home-courtthey go up against the Chuckey-Doak Black Knights at 3:30 p.m. on Monday. Hopefully Cocke County focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up 18 on Thursday.
Last Thursday, Cocke County was within striking distance but couldn't close the gap as they fell 66-60 to West Ridge. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (55), the Fighting Cocks still had to take the loss.
Defeat or not, Cocke County got some senior leadership from Ethan Fine and Kyler Hayes. Fine scored 21 points along with four steals, while Hayes went 6 for 10 en route to 17 points plus two steals. Fine has been hot , having posted two or more steals the last five times he's played. Another player making a difference was Maddox Holt, who posted six points.
Meanwhile, Chuckey-Doak was within striking distance but couldn't close the gap on Saturday as they fell 51-45 to Hancock County.
Cocke County's loss dropped their record down to 0-2. As for Chuckey-Doak, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-1.
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