Cougars put together best effort of West season with 83-61 win
The Barton County Community College men's basketball team finally found the rhythm its had been missing since the announcement of sanctions on the team a week ago. After a pair of lackluster losses, the Cougars had new energy Wednesday night at the Barton County Gym, defeating West foe Colby, 83-61, for the 1st West win of the season. Barton is now 6-10 overall and 1-2 in the West. Colby fell to 10-6 and 1-2.

Highlights
The Cougars shot 58 percent from the floor, just the 3rd time all year the Cougars surpassed the 50 percent mark. The past two games Barton shot less than 40 percent. But this time Barton had its shot down. The Cougars his 33-of-57 shot from the floor while Colby hit just 22-of-57.

Barton jumped to an early lead in the contest 31-23 and extended that lead to 41-27 by halftime. The Cougars continued their assault on the nets by hitting 62 percent in the 2nd half on 18-of-29 shooting from the floor. The Cougars held Colby to just 12-of-29 from the field.

The Cougars got a career-tying high from Antanas Kavaliauskas with 28 points. He was followed by Aubrey Bruner with 12 points. Jamual Warren led three Trojans in double figures with 18 points.

Stats
Full box scores and stats can be found at www.bartonccc.edu/sports

Next
Sat., Jan 15 – at Lamar, 8 pm (CST) (Non conference game at Lamar, Colo.)

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