2nd Chance wins Pratt MAYB tourney; Pratt Green takes second

A 4-0 record on Saturday put 2nd Chance, a Pratt-based team in the semifinals of the Pratt MAYB Tournament’s high school boys division.
In the Sunday semifinals, 2nd Chance routed the Kansas Hawks 75-37 behind 22 points from Tyrus McGee and 17 from Stuart Sullivan.
Chase Galle and Austin McClain each added 11 points while Nathan Southard had eight and Rhett Hostetler and Luke Southard each scored two points.
That win moved 2nd Chance into Sunday afternoon’s championship game and they continued to put points up in a hurry.
When the final buzzer sounded, 2nd Chance had claimed the tournament title with a 63-41 win over the Elite Eight.
Sullivan led the team with 17 points while McGee added 14 and Matt Swank had 11.
Luke Southard chipped in with nine while Galle had five and Nathan Southard three.
Hostetler and McClain each finished with two points as every member of the team scored.
Over the course of the weekend, 2nd Chance averaged 68.3 points per game while holding opponents to 34.3 points per outing.
Exactly half the team (Hostetler, McClain, L. Southard and Swank) will be part of this year’s Pratt High Greenback squad.
Also in the high school boys division, the Pratt Frogs, a group of players entering their freshman and sophomore years at PHS, went 1-3 in pool play on Friday and Saturday before pulling out a 44-43 win over Kingman Sunday morning to reach the fifth-place game.
Against Kingman, the Frogs were led by B.J.Dean’s 16 points while Cooper Batman added 12.
The Frogs struggled in the fifth-place game later Sunday afternoon, falling to KS And One 46-26 to finish the tournament in sixth place.
In that game, Batman was Pratt’s main offensive threat as he scored 16 of the team’s points. Skylar Dean and Easton Herring had four each and B.J. Dean added two.
Grayson Hostetler, Payson Maydew and Steven Walters also played for the Frogs.
The Hays Nuggets topped the Kansas Hawks 44-41 for third place while Kingman defeated the Cherokee Chiefs 52-35 for seventh and Hugoton beat the CK Warriors 51-36 for ninth place.

Pratt Green finishes second
The sixth and seventh grade boys division ended round robin play with a three-way tie for third, forcing organizers to break the tie based on point differential.
The Pratt Green, Pratt Press and Arlington Sharks all went 1-3 in round robin play while the Kansas Bruisers were 4-0 and the Kansas Thunder finished 3-1.
The Pratt Green won the tiebreaker and earned the third seed by virtue of their two-point win over Arlington and one-point loss to the Pratt Press.
Arlington was the fourth seed after beating the  Green by two and losing to the Press by two, while the Press wound up seeded fifth after losing by two and winning by one during round robin play.
The Pratt Green avenged one of their earlier losses in the first game of bracket play Sunday.
Their 38-37 win over the Kansas Thunder moved the Green into Sunday’s championship game against the Kansas Bruisers.
In the championship game, a huge size disadvantage was too much for the Green to overcome, as the  Bruisers’ 6-0 post players scored almost at will in a 68-36 win over the Green.
The Green were led by Shawn Ramos with 13 points.
Against the Thunder Sunday morning, the Green came back from a 20-19 halftime deficit to edge the Thunder 38-37.
Ramos led all scorers with 19 points while Will Fellhoelter added seven for Pratt.
Zach Will scored four and Trae’ Foreman finished with three. Christian Kurz and Ryan Landry chipped in two points each and Drew Dobbs had one.
The Thunder, a group of Skyline Middle School players, got 16 points from Brandon  Abbott and seven from Blake Lee.
Cole Patterson added six points while Brad Dearinger chipped in four. Colin Little and Ross Westhoff each had two and Austin Gilpin also provided minutes for the Thunder.
In Sunday’s first game, the Pratt Press avenged a Saturday loss to the Arlington Sharks with a 33-24 win.
Adam Bartel led the way with 11 points while Nathan Hayes and Dakota Venard each had eight.
That win set them up with a semifinal game against the Kansas Bruisers, a team from the Chaparral school district.
The Bruisers cruised past the Press 57-18 as they had a significant size advantage on all the other teams.
Pratt got seven points from Venard and six from Hayes in the game.
Later Sunday, the Thunder outscored the Press 20-16 in the second half to take a 40-31 win in the third place game.
Patterson led the Thunder with 14 points while Abbott and Lee added nine each. Westhoff had five and Dearinger chipped in with three points.
For the Press, Derek Barnard led the way with ten points. Brandon Ruckle added seven and Bartel had six.
Hayes chipped in with four, and the Press got two points each from Devin Roberts and Ethan  Sharp.

Team Green takes fifth
A loaded field in the high school girls division gave Team Green, a group of Lady Greenback players, fits in pool play, but the local girls did end on a high note as they defeated Cunningham 27-23 in Sunday’s fifth place game.
Team Green trailed 13-11 at halftime, but Peyton Hoeme scored eight of her game-high nine points in the second half to help Team Green come back for the win.
Team Green also got seven points from Cheyenne Becker and five from Aubrey Hoover.
Saturday evening, Team Green and Cunningham battled to the wire before Team Green won their round robin play matchup 33-30.
Hoeme again led the way with 10 points while Becker added nine.
Elsewhere in the high school girls division, South Gray  topped the Lady Hawks of Garden City 47-32 for the championship and the Hutchinson Lady Tigers defeated South Barber 34-29 in the third-place game.

Holcomb wins 8th grade title
In the eighth grade boys division, Holcomb capped an undefeated weekend with a 50-31 win over Cheney in Sunday’s championship.
In the third-place game, Cunningham avenged an earlier loss to Medicine Lodge with a 34-30 win Sunday afternoon.