TENNERTON – The Buckhannon-Upshur junior varsity Buccaneers simply couldn’t keep up with the Parkersburg Big Reds in a 70-47 setback Monday night.
The Bucs were down by a 15-9 score after one quarter with Landon Marple dropping in a trey and Seth Allen, Damion White and Brody McDaniels each putting in a basket for B-U.
Buckhannon-Upshur lost the second quarter by a 17-10 margin with McDaniels scoring four points and White, Kadyn Baisden and Xavier Robinette each scoring two.
That left the Bucs down by a 32-19 score at the half.
Buckhannon-Upshur was outscored by Parkersburg by a 21-15 margin in the third quarter with Robinette putting in six points on two three-pointers while White had four points, McDaniels two, and Allen, Baisden and Brody Jeran one each.
The Bucs went into the final quarter down by a 53-34 count.
B-U dropped the fourth quarter by a 17-13 score with McDaniels tallying seven points while Robinette and Colten Warner each added three.
Parkersburg’s Chandler Jackson led all scorers with 21 points while Luke Anderson had 13.
McDaniels paced B-U with 15 points while Robinette added 11.
The loss dropped the Bucs to 6-9 on the year.
They will play again on Wednesday hosting Morgantown at 5:45 p.m.
The boxscore:
Parkersburg 15 17 21 17 – 70
Buckhannon-Upshur 9 10 15 13 – 47
Parkersburg 70
Chandler Jackson 9 1-1 21; Luke Anderson 6 1-1 13; Branson Lott 4 1-2 11; Jay Walker 3 0-2 6; Quentin Wilson 3 0-0 6; Sutton Stanley 2 0-0 6; Tyler Cameron 2 0-0 4; Zayden Newell 1 0-0 2; Mathias Williams 0 2-2 2; Guy Bradley 0 0-0 0; Carter Melson 0 0-0 0. Totals 31 3-6 70.
Buckhannon-Upshur 47
Brody McDaniels 5 3-4 15; Xavier Robinette 4 0-0 11; Damion White 4 0-0 8; Seth Allen 1 1-2 3; Kadyn Baisden 0 3-4 3; Landon Marple 1 0-0 3; Colten Warner 1 0-0 3; Brody Jeran 0 1-2 1; Jacob Frye 0 0-0 0; Kaiden Marks 0 0-0 0; Jimmie Green 0 0-0 0; Kaleb Mabry 0 0-0 0; Riel Figueroa 0 0-0 0; Ian Linger 0 0-0 0; Deimian Klema 0 0-0 0. Totals 16 8-12 47.
Three-point field goals – Parkersburg: Jackson 2; Stanley 2; Lott 1. Totals 5; Buckhannon-Upshur: Robinette 3; McDaniels 2; Marple 1; Warner 1. Totals 7.
Fouls – Parkersburg: 13; Buckhannon-Upshur: 10.
Free throw percentage – Parkersburg: 3-for-6 for 50.0 percent; Buckhannon-Upshur: 8-for-12 for 75.0 percent.
