Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns had a great week as they stayed undefeated in district play with wins against Bellevue and Midway.
The Longhorns beat the Eagles 64-49 and the Falcons 58-52 which gives them a good opportunity finish with the district title since both teams are potential playoffs teams.
Forestburg came into the week fresh off a 5-0 run through the first round of district play and was hoping it could do the same thing again.
The Longhorns first game against Bellevue saw Forestburg make up an 12 point deficit in the third quarter to win by 11 points thanks in no small part to the hot hand of Jesus Sanchez.
This time around on Jan. 28, it was the first quarter that saw the Longhorns break away. Forestburg led 26-10 in the first quarter, but the Longhorns saw their big post player Kyler Willett get into foul trouble. Coach Curtis Enis thought Tristan Cumby was able to keep the team aflot in the post on defense which allowed Forestburg to keep its lead.
The final three quarters were fairly even, with the Longhorns only outscoring the Eagles by one point. This allowed Forestburg to win by a comfortable margin 64-49.
Sanchez nearly had as big of a scoring game as he led the team with 30 points. Jesse Wadsworth and Willett each added 15 for the majority of the team’s scoring as the Longhorns moved on.
Forestburg’s home game on Friday carried with it more weight than when the team’s first played. Back then the Longhorns won easily by 20 points and moved on, but on Friday it was a game between the top two teams in the district since Midway had beaten every other team in the district.
With those stakes, it was a much more intense game.
Forestburg led 14-11 after the first quarter and 27-20 at halftime. The third quarter saw the Falcons big post players make up some ground, outscoring the Longhorns 22-17 as Forestburg’s lead was down to two points 44-42 heading into the final period.
The Longhorns were able to close the game well as they won 58-52.
Willett led the team with 17 points and Wadsworth was second with 15. John Carranza came off the bench to score 12 important points for Forestburg in the win.

Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost a disappointing game at home last week against Petrolia.
The Pirates won 50-43 to give the Indians their fourth district loss as they could possibly drop from third place.
Nocona came into the game following a disappointing loss at Windthorst which made the prospect of climbing into the top two of the district standings tough to accomplish. Still, the first game between the two teams at Petrolia saw the Indians win by only seven points.
The game on Jan. 28 was similar in a lot of ways.
The Pirates led 14-10 after the first quarter and held by one point at halftime 25-24. Nocona had a bit of a down third quarter offensively which allowed Petrolia to grow its lead a little bit, leading 38-32.
Then a nearly even fourth quarter saw the Pirates hold on to get the close victory 50-43.
Landon Fatheree led the team with 13 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Oscar Salomon-Gomez was second with nine points and Karson Kleinhans scored eight points and also had eight rebounds.

Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears went 1-1 last week to try and keep their playoff hopes alive in district.
The Bears lost to Saint Jo 77-34 before bouncing back to beat Prairie Valley in a close game 57-50.
The Bears finished the first round of district play just on the outside of the playoffs in fifth place, but hoped a win against one of the teams it lost to could cause enough chaos to give them a chance to break in.
Gold-Burg first played at Saint Jo on Jan. 28. The Bears struggled the first time they played the Panthers and this game was no different. The press defense from Saint Jo proved too much for Gold-Burg to handle for most of the game until the end of the game where the Bears had the most success.
The Panthers won 77-34.
Camden Dreyer led the team with 13 points while Barrett Allen was second with eight points.
The next game against Prairie Valley was one Gold-Burg knew it needed to have if it wanted to stay in playoff contention. The first game between the two teams saw the Bears win by eight points so they knew they could not take the Bulldogs lightly.
The game was postponed to Saturday and moved to Montague’s gym after a potential gas leak at Gold-Burg closed the school down late last week.
Prairie Valley jumped out to a good lead 20-8 in the first quarter. Gold-Burg responded with a pretty good offensive quarter in the second, but had not played good enough defense to come all the way back the Bears trailed 33-25 at halftime.
Gold-Burg came out in the second half and thanks to a dominant third quarter, outscoring the Bulldogs 19-4, the Bears grabbed the lead 44-37.
The final period proved to be an even one in the end which allowed Gold-Burg to hang on and get the win 57-50.
Keelyn Case led the team with 20 points while Dreyer scored 18 points on six made 3-pointers.

Missing scores
The Bowie News did not receive scores from the Prairie Valley coach from the games last week.

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