Schulenburg Beats Bloomington by 13
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Freshman Denver Carr made his first varsity start Tuesday and the speedy guard was key to the victory over Bloomington. Photo by Jeff Wick
After two games of their district season, the Schulenburg boys basketball team was in a unfamiliar spot – last place.
“We’re not used to that,” said longtime Shorthorns head coach Richard Hoogendoorn.
Tuesday his Schulenburg boys went out and did something about that, winning their first district game 54-41 over Bloomington to improve to 1-2 district play.
“Praise the Lord for a district win because we’ve been struggling. We’ve still gotta grow up a bit, but I like us. We’re getting there,” Hoogendoorn said.
Jayse Janda led the Shorthorns with 13 points Tuesday.
Freshman guard Denver Carr scored nine in his first start of the season.
Carr and Janda were part of a pesky Shorthorn guard corps, along with Byron Johnson and Demarrion Glass that gave Bloomington fits all night. They forced a ton of turnovers with halfcourt traps and turned them into easy buckets.
Johnson scored eight and Glass scored seven.
Schulenburg appeared to take control of the game early in the third quarter when they built a 12 point lead, but Bloomington stormed back to cut the Shorthorns lead to just 29-24 before the Shorthorns forced several more turnovers to keep the Bobcats at arm’s length the rest of the way.
Johnson fouled out early in the fourth quarter but the Shorthorns were able to hold on without their senior leader.
The Shorthorns will try to keep their momentum going Friday when they play at district-leading Shiner.
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Schulenburg boys 54, Bloomington 41 Bloomington 6 8 17 10 – 41 Schulenburg 12 13 16 13 – 54 Schulenburg scoring: Nick Goode 2, Denver Carr 9, Byron Johnson 8, Jayse Janda 13, Demarrion Glass 7, Daterrion Houston 6, Van Prihoda 4, Jayvan Luhrs 5.