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| 2007 Mason County Invitational Tournament Mustangs Roll Over Camels In Semis Fall Hard To Mason County In MCIT Finals |
| Mustangs Dispatch Campbell County In MCIT Semis 58-42 January 5, 2007 |
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| The Mustangs earned a shot at host Mason County with a semifinal win over the Camels. Senior center Troy Cooper led Brossart with 15 points and teammate Jimmy Uebel hit a pair of 3-pointers and finished with 14. Junior guard Andy Franzen led Campbell County with eight points, six coming in the fourth quarter when the Camels tried to rally from a 25-point third-quarter deficit. CAMPBELL CO. 4 4 12 22 - 42 BROSSART 19 11 15 13 - 58 CAMPBELL COUNTY (42): Parks 1 0 2, Griffin 2 1 6, Eten 0 1 1, A. Franzen 4 0 8, Coffman 0 2 2, Verst 0 2 2, Dischar 2 1 5, Gearhart 1 0 2, Nerl 2 2 6, Sutherland 1 0 3, Albrecht 2 0 4, B. Franzen 0 1 1. Totals 15 10 42. BROSSART (58): Kidney 2 0 6, Lloyd 0 2 2, Rebholz 2 0 5, Niemeyer 2 0 4, Uebel 6 0 14, Mutsch 5 0 10, Cooper 5 5 15, Weyman 0 2 2. Totals 22 9 58. 3-pointers: CC -Griffin, Sutherland. B -Kidney 2, Uebel 2, Rebholz. Records: Brossart 12-1, Campbell County 9-5. |
| Mustangs Stymied In First Half By Mason County As Royals Lay Claim To 2007 MCIT Championship Trophy January 6, 2007 |
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| After battling LexCath and Henry Clay, and decimating Montgomery County and Campbell County in the earlier rounds of the MCIT, the Brossart Mustangs were cautiously optimistic about our ability to compete with the Mason County Royals and return the heavy MCIT hardware back to the Avenue of Champions for the first time since 1999, establishing ourselves as bona fide 10th Region Championship candidates. Both teams entered the game with 12-1 records, and both teams had suffered narrow losses to Lexington Catholic. The Mustangs normally function quite well in the Fieldhouse and coming out of the Fifth-Third Classic where we played LexCath in a hostile environment, certainly didn't anticipate being intimidated by the Royals home court advantage. The first quarter could hardly have been uglier with neither team able to mount any offense in what more closely resembled a street ball game. Darius Miller, the Royals legitimate Divison I college prospect sat for a couple of minutes with two fouls but the Mustangs were unable to take advantage during his absence. Four Troy Cooper free-throw completions accounted for the total Mustangs first quarter output. It was the Mason County Royals who ignited in the second quarter, putting 21 points on the board to our Mustangs 5, sending the Stangs to the locker room at halftime with only a lone field goal and four free throws for our efforts along with a 18 point, 27-9 deficit. The kind of deficits that Montgomery County and Campbell County had been faced with when playing our Mustangs in the earlier rounds of this tournament. Brossart seemingly came out of the locker room ready to play in the second half, nearly doubling our first-half offensive output as Jimmy Uebel put up 8 points in the third quarter with two "3"s and Luke Rebholz and Nathan Mutsch chiming in with 3s. It seemed that each time the Mustangs would score, Trevor Setty would answer with a trey of his own, hitting on three long distant bombs in the third quarter. When the sun set on the period the Mustangs had chipped away only one point of the 18 point halftime deficit, virtually assuring the Mustangs a long, quiet ride back to Alexandria with the fourth quarter becoming anti-climatic as the Mustangs absorbed the 56-33 loss, the fewest points a Brossart team has put on the board since February 3rd, 2005 when the Stangs had a similar experience in the opening round of the 2005 All "A" State Classic when the Mustangs put up only 30 against Hazard. The good news is that there are more games to play and that the Mustangs in all likelihood will meet up with the Royals on two more occasions this season, with the next scheduled event back in the Fieldhouse on Tuesday night, February 13th. The third meeting could well come in the 10th Region Tournament in March. Mason County will remain in our thoughts, but will be relegated to the back burner as the Mustangs will concentrate on preparing for a district seeding clash with Scott at home on January 16th and the upcoming regional and state "A" tournaments. The Mustangs were led in scoring against Mason County by Jimmy Uebel with 12 points. Troy Cooper was limited to 9, Josh Kidney 5, Nathan Mutsch 4, and Luke Rebholz 3 in a rather enemic effort that we know the Mustangs can improve on. The Mustangs fall to 12-2 on the season. Fifty-five grade school league players and coaches expereinced the atmosphere of a big game in the Fieldhouse as our guests on Saturday night. Thanks for making the trip! |
| BROSSART 4 5 16 8 - 33 MASON CO 6 21 15 14 - 56 BISHOP BROSSART (33): Kidney 1 3 5, Rebholz 1 0 3, Uebel 5 0 12, Mutsch 1 1 4, Cooper 1 7 9. Totals 9 11 33. MASON COUNTY (56): Scott 4 5 14, Miller 4 2 10, Setty 4 0 12, Browning 1 0 3, Middleton 3 4 11, Stahl 3 0 6. Totals 19 11 56. 3-pointers: B -Uebel 2, Rebholz, Mutsch. M -Setty 4, Scott, Browning, Middleton. Records: Mason County 13-1, Bishop Brossart 12-2. |
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