Cougars claim win at Boyd
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After Boyd?s Lucas Majors hit the front end of two to open the game, MTCS ran off six unanswered points. Tyler Hillis went to work for Boyd with two baskets and Matt Davis added a 3-pointer. But the Cougars held the advantage by the end of the first period with a 13-9 lead.
Boyd turned the ball over five times in the second quarter as the Cougars ran off nine straight points. Boyd?s only points in the period came from Hillis on an offensive rebound with 1:07 left in the half. Beckham hit a 3-pointer to close out the period for the Cougars, giving them a 25-11 lead by the half.
Boyd came out in the third period and got things going on offense, hitting for 17 points in the period. Davis hit a pair of 3-pointers and Lance Chandler found the bottom of the net for four points in the period, but the Broncos? defense had a hard time stopping the Cougars. Beckham hit for five points in the period and Clayton Mitchell added six as MTCS took a 39-28 lead heading into the final period.
Boyd?s offensive struggles continued into the fourth period, with just six points on the board. The Cougars got nine points from Beckham as MTCS closed out the 23-point victory.
For the Broncos, Hillis led with 14 points. Davis added 11, Chandler had four, Austin Young and Mitchell Young had two points each and Majors added one point.