The North Half basketball tournament continues today for five Tippah County schools. The Ripley Lady Tigers host Class 3A girls at the RHS Event Center. The Falkner Lady Eagles and Pine Grove Lady Panthers travel to H.W. Byers for 1A girls, while the Falkner Eagles and Blue Mountain Cougars play at Ingomar High School for [...]
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Division tournaments wrap up tonight in Booneville and Walnut
BOONEVILLE–The Div. 1-1A and Div. 1-3A Tournaments conclude tonight in Booneville, while Div. 2-2A wraps up at Walnut. All participants in tonight’s game will advance to next week’s North Half. The Falkner Lady Eagles and Pine Grove Lady Panthers meet for a fourth time at 7 p.m. for the Div. 1-1A girls championship at Booneville [...]
Blue Mountain edges Falkner, advances to Div. 1-1A title game
BOONEVILLE–For the third time this season, Blue Mountain and Falkner met on the hardwood. For the third time, the Cougars pulled away at the end. Tuesday, the guard play of Jacob Girley and Ismael Ruedas outlasted the inside muscle of the Eagles, and Blue Mountain won 63-55 to advance to their second consecutive Div. 1-1A [...]
Blue Mountain Cougars take first step
BOONEVILLE – The way Blue Mountain coach David Mason sees it. that’s one down and hopefully a bunch more to go. Mason’s Cougars won their 26th game Monday night, beating Pine Grove 78-44 in the opening round of the Division 1-1A Tournament at Booneville High School.Blue Mountain’s immediate goal is to win the division tourney [...]
Div. 1-1A Tournament: Lady Panthers, Cougars advance
BOONEVILLE– The Pine Grove Lady Panthers and the Blue Mountain Cougars, both No. 2 seeds in the Div. 1-1A Tournament, advanced to the semifinals with wins Monday, at Booneville High School. The Cougars (26-3) began the evening with a 78-44 win over the No. 7 Pine Grove Panthers. The Cougars ran away in the first [...]
Blue Mountain visits Biggersville for rematch
BIGGERSVILE–Two dates are circled on Blue Mountain’s calendar this basketball season – one was Dec. 18, the other is today. The significance of both dates is this: Division 1-1A favorites Blue Mountain (15-2) and Biggersville (13-6) each other. Enough said. Biggersville won the first showdown, 87-83, at Blue Mountain. Tonight’s highly-anticipated 7:30 p.m. rematch will [...]
BASKETBALL: Blue Mountain travels to Biggersville, weekend’s schedule
BIGGERSVILLE–Tonight the Blue Mountain Cougars will look to tighten things up in the Div. 1-1A race when they travel to face the league leading Biggersville Lions. Biggersville won their first meeting of the season, 87-83 at Blue Mountain, Dec. 18. Since that meeting the Lions (14-5, 6-0 in 1-1A) have gone 3-2 with a loss [...]
Cougars topple Tigers for first county title since 2000
PINE GROVE – For 11 consecutive years, the Ripley Tigers had a vice-grip on the Tippah County Tournament. But not any more. Saturday, the Blue Mountain Cougars got 26 points each from guards Jacob Girley and Ismael Ruedas to upend the Tigers 72-66 and claim their first Tippah County Tournament title since 2000. “You teach [...]
