Barton drops home contest to Garden in West play

Barton drops home contest to Garden in West play
The Barton County Community College men's basketball team slipped to 1-4 in West play with a home loss to Garden City Thursday night, falling to the Broncbusters 82-76 at the Barton Gym. The Cougars and Garden had a back-and-forth game with 7 ties and 7 lead changes in the contest. Barton falls is now 13-5 overall this season while Garden improves to 3-2 in the West and 14-4 overall. The Cougars will go after their 2nd road win in West play Saturday when they travel to El Dorado to take on Butler in an 8 pm tip at the Power Plant.

Highlights
As has been the standard in each of the Cougars 1st 5 conference games now, Barton fell behind early to Garden by scores of 10-3, 16-5 and 21-7. And has also been the trend in 4 of the 5 contest, Barton came back to take the lead. This time it started with a 14-3 run – 10 points by Chris Jackson – to make it a 24-21 Garden lead. Barton continued to whittle away, finally overtaking the Broncbusters with 6 minutes left. The two teams traded the lead the final 6 minutes with Garden leading 41-39 at half.

Garden led by as many as 6 early in the 2nd half but the Cougars battled back. Barton had a run going midway through the half on an Antowine Lamb dunk and Jackson layup and free throw to take a 64-60. Barton had a chance to make it a 6 point lead but turned the ball over. That was followed by an offensive rebound basket by Garden that started an 10-0 Broncbuster run. Garden would never trail after that, leading the final 6 minutes of the game. Garden hit just 4-of-9 free throws in the final 4 minutes but Barton was not able to take advantage, only getting as close as 3 with 33 seconds to play.

Jackson matched his career-high with 30 points in the game, hitting 12-of-20 from the floor and 4-of-10 on 3-pointers. He also added 4 assists. Qa'rraan Calhoun posted a double-double with 12 points and a team-high 12 rebounds. Sandy Perry also scored 12.

Stats
Stats can be found at www.bartonccc.edu/sports

Next 
Sat Jan 19 – at Butler, 8 pm (Jayhawk West contest at the Power Plant in El Dorado)

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