Basketball: Steven Minney, Kenneth Page lead Junior High Boys to wins over Bartlesville, Bixby
/Two Sand Springs junior high basketball teams won their games Thursday evening at the Ed Dubie Field House.
The Eighth-Grade Boys White team won their game 58-44 against Bixby Red with 19 points from Kenneth Page and 13 from Colin Shope. They appeared to have it in the bag after a 20-6 first quarter, but the Spartans came storming back to cut it to 29-25 at the half. Sand Springs came out of the locker room amped up and Page went off for 8 points in the third quarter. Owen Floyd hit two three-pointers in the fourth. The team was 11-of-19 at the charity stripe.
Sand Springs Scoring: Page 19, Shope 13, Lair 10, Floyd 6, Clayton 4, Roper 3, Sims 2, Stewart 1.
The Freshman Boys won their game 48-27 behind a 20-point effort from Steven Minney. The Sandites had Bartlesville on the ropes from the very beginning, winning the first quarter 10-5 and were up 22-13 at half time. Michael Foster accounted for both of the Sandites’ three-pointers, and the team was 12-of-17 from the free throw line.
Sand Springs Scoring: Minney 20, Foster 10, Morrall 8, Mallory 4, Williams 4, Marshall 2.