[bball_fan]

We defeated Pikeville last night by 45 to 33, I believe. Pikeville played really well last night and our offense never really showed up except for a 3 minute run in the third quarter. I was very proud of our boys for there tough nose defense all night, holding Pikeville to 33 points.

Also, for this to be a regular season grade school game, the crowd rivaled something you would see at a district tournament high school game. Both sides of the stands at Mullins was packed and neither side went too far with anything! A great atmosphere for these kids to have played in! Really a night to remember for all the kids on both teams! A and B team games were both really exciting and the crowd could not have been louder for both games.

Congratulations to Pikeville's C and B teams. Pikeville's C team handle us pretty easily tonight but there C team is one of the best you will see anywhere. The B team game was a one point thriller which Pikeville got the best of us! I am proud of our boys though for cutting a 8 point lead down to 1 in 40 seconds! We had 2 really good looks from deep and two missed lay ups in the last 15 seconds and could not knock any of them down!

We was told this was the first conference title for Mullins in about 20 years, hopefully we can follow it up with the first ever county title in school history.

Pikeville and Belfry have a game left against each other I believe, which will decide the second and third seeds in the county tournament.

To our boys, Coach Kidd and myself could not be more proud of how hard you have worked all year! Let's keep it up and ride this momentum into the County Tournament.