Parker Mulberry To The Rescue – Hits Six 3’s, Scoring 25 Points, And We Needed Every One Of Them To Defeat Holmes 65-61 In Overtime

On three occasions last year, one of which was against Holmes in Alexandria, Parker Mulberry hit five threes in games, but on this night in the David Evans Memorial Fieldhouse in Covington,  it took a career-high six of them to get his team to overtime, and then defeat the homestanding Bulldogs, 65-61.   Mulberry put up 25 points on the night.

Alex Combs got us out of the gate early, scoring 8 points in the first half.  He finished with 10 on the night.  Just prior to the half we attempted to gain some separation widening our lead to 25-15, only to have the Dawgs answer with the final two buckets of the half, and outscoring us 15-8 overall, knotting the contest at 34 mid-third, and then poking a nose in front at 35-34.  Ties of 50-50, 54-54 and 56-all would follow, as despite Mulberry’s 18 second half points, it would take extra-time to determine the winner.

Ben Doyle was our second-leading scorer with 14, hitting key free-throws in overtime.  Dom Hadden and Alex Combs both recorded 10 points apiece as the Mustangs improve to 4-2, while winning our first NKAC DivII Contest of the season, and head to Brooksville for a 10th Region event with the Bracken County Polar Bears in 24 hours.  Holmes Junior, Mark McCutchin, who got us for 29 points a year ago in he SyDome, led the Bulldogs with 18, and Dominic Scott added 17.