Wildcats off to fast start

“I think that our pressure bothered them early especially, pressure is really what I would say we excelled at tonight,” head coach Mason Burgett said. “We were hitting shots really early and that allows you to get into that pressure. If you’re not hitting those shots then you have to come back and play half court man and that doesn’t suit us as well so when we’re hitting shots, we can be dangerous defensively.”

The Wildcats had four players score in double figures with two picking up double-doubles on the night. Jhaden Vaughn led the way grabbing 19 points and hauled in 15 rebounds while Luke Washer picked up 14 points with three from behind the arc and hauled in 10 rebounds. Landon Stewart had 13 points with nine from beyond the arc and hauled in one rebound. Jerimyah Shearer had 11 points with three from beyond the arc and six rebounds. Aquarius Gude had seven points including three from beyond the arc and hauled in one rebound. Hunter Reynolds had five points with three from beyond the arc to go with two rebounds. TayShaun Linton had two points on the night, both from the charity stripe and hauled in one rebound.

“Landon Stewart hit some good shots, Jhaden obviously when he gives you what he’s capable of it’s pretty good, so I’d say Jhaden, Landon Stewart, thought Luke Washer played a good game, those three,” Burgett said.

Burgett spoke postgame on his team’s performance, specifically jumping out to their early 15-0 lead in the first quarter and what they’ll take from it moving forward into the rest of the season.

“We had a big lead bringing in our subs and we got that big lead without hitting a high percentage of shots, so we really didn’t even shoot the ball that well and still put up pretty good amount of points and got several shot attempts and that’s really what we look at more than anything, is field goal attempts,” Burgett said.

He talked about going in future games with the same amount of early intensity and try to carry it through throughout the game instead of letting it slip away from them a little bit.

“We gotta just keep going, we can’t get content when we pull up a little bit of a lead, we gotta keep going and keep pushing,” Burgett said.

Friday, Dec. 2

The Trigg County Wildcats obliterated Clarksville Christian 91-50 Friday night with four Wildcats scoring in double figures including Luke Washer who hauled in a double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds.

Three of Washer’s points came from behind the arc with four from the charity stripe. Landon Stewart had 23 points including 12 from beyond the arc and seven from the charity stripe. Jerimyah Shearer had 17 points including three from beyond the arc and two from the charity stripe to go with three rebounds. Jhaden Vaughn had 15 points including three from beyond the arc and four from the charity stripe to go with seven rebounds. Aquarius Gude had seven points including three from the charity stripe and three rebounds. Kahmani Bush had four points with three from beyond the arc and one from the charity stripe to go with one rebound. Lance Breckel contributed four points of his own on the night. Hunter Reynolds had three points from beyond the arc with one rebound. TayShaun Linton had two points and four rebounds. Luke Terrell had one point from the charity stripe.

Saturday, Dec. 3The Trigg County Wildcats (3-0) claimed a 21-point win over the Caldwell County Tigers on Saturday by a score of 79-58. Four Wildcats scored in double figures with Jhaden Vaughn and Luke Washer hauling in double-doubles. Landon Stewart had 25 points with 12 from beyond the arc and five from the charity stripe to go with four rebounds. Vaughn had 18 points with three from beyond the arc and one from the charity stripe to go with 14 rebounds. Aquarius Gude had 14 points with six from beyond the arc and two from the charity stripe to go with four rebounds. Washer had 11 points with one from the charity stripe to go with 10 rebounds. Jerimyah Shearer had five points with one from the charity stripe to go with three rebounds. Hunter Reynolds had five points with three from beyond the arc and two from the charity stripe to go with four rebounds. Matthew Reeves had one point from the charity stripe and one rebound. The Wildcats’ next game is tonight at home against Union County with tipoff at 7:30 p.m.