Two of the tighter games played across the state took place between the Miller and Mt. Vernon Plankinton boys and girls on KPLO last night. In the first game of the evening, Miller took a commanding lead in the first quarter jumping in front 17-8. Mt. Vernon-Plankinton settled in during the second quarter and picked up the defense, holding the Rustlers to 8-points and going to half trailing 25-16.
In the second half, the Titans closed the gap outscoring Miller by five and making it a 32-28 ballgame. The third quarter saw two runs, one 12-0 run by MVP followed by a 7-0 run by Miller. In the fourth quarter, the Titans defense completely shut down Miller holding them to just two-points while exploding for 15 of their own, taking down the Rustlers 40-34. The Titans were led by Madalynn Lorang who scored 12, behind her was Tarynn Hegg who had 11.
For Miller, they had one player in double-digits, Kate Lichty who scored 11. The Titans improve to 1-1 while Miller was handed their first loss of the year to drop to 3-1.
In the boy’s game, it was almost a flipped script as the Titans were the ones to get out to a first quarter lead of 14-9 followed by another successful quarter in the second taking a 25-15 lead to the half. Miller answered back with a strong defensive third quarter holding the Titans to three-points and cutting the deficit to three. In the fourth, Miller outlasted a final Titan push of 10-points to come back and hang on for the 43-38 victory.
Miller was led by Isaak Hunter who scored 17, joined in double-digits by Derek Brueggeman who had 11 and Will Resel who had 10. For the Titans, their leading scorer was Tyce Feistner who scored 8.
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