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JV Bucs fall to Morgantown, 85-36

Xavier Robinette (3) led the Buckhannon-Upshur junior varsity Bucs with 12 points in their outing with Morgantown Wednesday evening. (Bobbie Hatcher/My Buckhannon)

TENNERTON – The Buckhannon-Upshur junior varsity Bucs couldn’t slow down the Morgantown Mohigans” attack in an 85-36 setback Wednesday evening.

Morgantown made 14 three-pointers in the game.

The Bucs trailed by a 22-9 score after one quarter with Xavier Robinette putting in six points and Damion White three.

B-U managed just seven points in the second quarter, getting four from Brody McDaniels and three from Jacob Frye.

That left the Bucs down by a 49-14 score at the half.

Buckhannon-Upshur lost the third quarter by a 20-11 count with Robinette scoring six, Colten Warner three, and Brody Jeran two for the Bucs.

They went into the final quarter down by a 69-29 score.

The Bucs lost the final quarter by a 16-9 score with Frye scoring three points and White, Jeran and Jimmie Green each dropping in a basket.

Marcus Goins led Morgantown with 13 points.

Robinette had a team-high for the Bucs with 12 points.

The Bucs fell to 6-10 on the season.

They were scheduled to wrap up their season Thursday hosting East Fairmont.

The boxscore:

Morgantown 22  27  20  16 – 85

Buckhannon-Upshur 9  7  11  9 – 36

Morgantown 85

Goins 5 0-0 13; Thompson 4 0-0 11; Duesenberry 4 0-0 10; Prutilpac 3 0-0 8; Smalls 3 1-2 7; Kellogg 3 0-0 7; Street 3 0-0 7; Riffle 3 0-0 6; Schmidt 2 0-0 5; Eilert 2 0-0 4; Bowers 1 0-0 3; Sainato 1 0-0 2; Ridgeway 1 0-0 2. Totals 35 1-2 85.

Buckhannon-Upshur 36

Xavier Robinette 4 0-0 12; Jacob Fyre 2 0-0 6; Damion White 2 1-2 5; Brody McDaniels 2 0-0 4; Brody Jeran 2 0-2 4; Colten Warner 1 0-2 3; Jimmie Green 1 0-2 2; Seth Allen 0 0-2 0; Landon Marple 0 0-0 0; Kadyn Baisden 0 0-0 0; Riel Figueroa 0 0-0 0; Kaiden Marks 0 0-0 0; Kaleb Mabry 0 0-0 0; Ian Linger 0 0-0 0; Deimian Klema 0 0-0 0. Totals 14 1-10 36.

Three-point field goals – Morgantown: Goins 3; Thompson 3; Duesenberry 2; Prutilpac 2; Bowers 1; Kellogg 1; Schmidt 1; Street 1. Totals 14; Buckhannon-Upshur: Robinette 4; Fyre 2; Warner 1. Totals 7.

Fouls – Morgantown: 14; Buckhannon-Upshur: 5.

Free throw percentage – Morgantown: 1-for-2 for 50.0 percent; Buckhannon-Upshur: 1-for-10 for 10.0 percent.

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