Our Brossart Mustangs got a “trip over the track” Wednesday night, defeating Villa Madonna for the 10th consecutive time 75-40 in running clock manner.  Drew Steffen got us out of the gate scoring 8 of our first 12 point, as we opened a 12-0 early game lead, and were never threatened by the Division III Vikings. 

Senior Beckett Kuntz was stymied early, able to muster only 6 first half tallies.  Kuntz caught fire in the second half, nailing four 3-point goals and a two to finish out the night with 20 points to lead all scorers.  Brady Boruske, fresh off of the gridiron, showed no rust whatsoever, picking up where he left off a year ago, adding to his 349 career points with 17 more tonight.  In total, Ten Mustangs put ink in the book on this night.  Brady Rowe, Cohen Trauth, and Wyatt Feldman all scored their first varsity points.

Some takeaways from this night was the play of the sophomores who made major contributions, and will allow us to develop bench-depth confidence.  I thought our ball-movement was the best that we have seen in the past three seasons.  We hit eleven 3-pointers, as we begin to develop an offensive identity.  Our Free Throw shooting (4-15) left much to be desired, which I will take as an indication that we are playing several guys fresh off of the football field and/or soccer pitch.  Keeping in mind that tougher competition lies ahead, we will take what we got out of this contest tonight and move on to Lexington Sayre and Lexington Christian Friday and Saturday night.  Interestingly, we have only played Sayre on one previous occasion – December 29, 2014 in the Henry County Tournament where we were defeated 79-72 in overtime, and have only encountered Lexington Christian on one previous occasion, this one in the 2014 All “A” State Tournament, where we upset them 55-51.

Our box scores are not set up as of yet.  Here are the highlights from all three games.

Varsity:  Kuntz 20, Boruske 17, Rowe 4, D.Steffen 8, J. Steffen 2, Trauth 6, Glass 2, Hesse 4, Feldman 3, Cozzi 9

JV:  Bricking 6, Clark 8, Rowe 5, Bezold 6, Trauth 7, Meier 8, Glass 2, Feldman 2

Frosh:  Kramer 3, Pangallo 6, Parker Litmer 8, Shewmaker 5, Johnson 4, Trauth 5, LaBeau 2, Clark 6, Ollberding 2, Prost 4