The Brossart Mustangs are in their ninth season as members of the 10th Region, but in Winchester, we might as well have been playing our first game out of the Ninth or have been a visiting team from the bayou country of Louisiana. Not once, but on several occasions, Mustang statistician, Jeff Miller had to correct the Clark County public address announcer who insisted that we were Brousaard.
At introductions of the Mustang JV Game we all axiously looked up to check out our new exchange student as Nathan Mu-Tasch was introduced to the crowd, and then was later simply called Mootch. I should not be one to poke fun at the pronunciation of the word Mutsch, pronounced simply Much, because for the past two years I have insisted on adding an N and calling Nathan, Muench. There was a time that Nate would give me friendly reminders that it was "much" but by now he has given up and accepted that with me he will be eternally Nathan Muench.
All that being said, whatever alias we were playing under on this Friday night in Winchester, the Mustangs played a great ballgame under difficult circumstances, going without the services of Seniors Kevin Smith and Michael Schenk and drawing on the services of a very sick Nathan Mutsch.
It was a night that belonged to Evan McDole as the McDole clan traveled en-masse to see the Big McDawg score his thousanth point in a Brossart Uniform and they weren't disappointed. Needing 10 entering the game it wasn't a sure thing. After Big Ev put up six in the early minutes of the contest including the most impressive slam-dunk in our storied history, it became a sure-thing. Just into the second half at the 6:23 minute mark, McDole made history by breaking open under our basket and scoring an all-too-easy chip shot as the Mustangs were on a 17-0 run, that would see the Mustangs shutout the Cardinals in the third period (15-0) erradicating a 30-29 halftime deficit and propelling us to our fourth win of the seasonand Evan McDole to his third consecutive double-double.
The Mustangs especially missed the defensive efforts of Senior Kevin Smith as the Cardinals played horse from 3-Point range, hitting on ten long bombers for the contest. Clark County was coming off of a recent six point win over Lexington Catholic. It was Brad Seiter and Brett Reilly who picked up the slack on the offensive end as the two guards combined for a total of 23 points. Brad had 13 on the merits of 10 of 15 free throw shooting and Brett 10 with three field goals and 4 of 4 from the line. Lost in the McDole hoopla is the fact that these are career highs for both Seiter and Reilly.
Box Score: Seiter 0-1-10/15-13, Franzen 0-0-3/4-3, Reilly 3-0-4/4-10, Anderson 1-0-0/0-2, McCarthy 0-1-1/2-4, Uebel 0-1-2/2-5,
Mutsch 1-0-1/3-5, Cooper 3-0-3/4-9, McDole 8-0-2/4-18
Totals Mustangs: 16-3-26/39-67 Brossart 4-0
Totals Cardinals: 9-10-6/11-54 Clark County 3-3 |
