White Oak Falls To Rusk, 64-71

Rusk's Cornellous Lewis lit up the scoreboard for 29 points, followed by fellow Eagle Kalen Skinner for 17, as Rusk defeated White Oak in pool play of the Last Man Standing tournament tonight.

Gladewater -- 18-2A White Oak started with a strong first quarter, outscoring 18-3A Rusk 21-10, and it looked like an upset was in the making. Rusk would have none of it, however. The Eagles fought back, scoring 25 points and surging past the Roughnecks to lead at the half 35-33.

After the break, the game momentum again shifted to White Oak, and at the end of the third, the Roughnecks led 54-49. But in the end, the battle of the surges would go to Rusk.

They would score 22 in the last quarter, holding the Roughnecks to 11, to pocket the win.

Taylor Goll was the high scorer for White Oak with 16 points.

Scoring by Quarter

Rusk	10	25	14	22	71
White Oak	21	12	21	11	64

Box Scores

Rusk	Pts	White Oak	Pts
Cornellous Lewis	29	Taylor Goll	16
Kalen Skinner	17	Blake Ware	13
Mike Katon	10	Jackson McCurdy	11
J.D. Beard	8	Caleb Carr	11
Demarcco Richards	5	Connor Sharp	6
Taj Cleaver	2	Trevor Wait	5
Tarrance Turner	2	Joe Young	3

Rusk next faces Gladewater, coming off a tournament loss to Sabine, in the first round of bracket play at 1:00pm Friday at the Sabine High School. The winner of that game will go on to battle Big Sandy at 5:30pm.

White Oak will have a bye in the first round of bracket play Friday, and will then play West Rusk at 7:00pm at the West Rusk High School. The winner will face either Mabank or Pleasant Grove.

See the complete bracket at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pmNMSU_lNoVBfxRMfOg87UQ&gid=0