Tenaha High School on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 –
The Timpson Bears varsity basketball team fell to the Jefferson Bulldogs by a 53-49 final score. The game was a Tenaha Holiday Hoops semifinal and the loss will send the Bears to a third-place playoff tomorrow with Flatonia at Tenaha’s SEC at 7:15 p.m.
The Bears trailed the Bulldogs 12-7 at the end of the first period. They battled back to lead 23-17 at the midway intermission. Jefferson cut the Bear’s lead to a single point at 36-35 by the end of the third stanza.
The fourth period saw the teams exchange the lead back and forth 6 times but Jefferson ultimately took the 4-point 53-49 win to advance to tomorrow’s final round of the tourney. They will face Mount Pleasant Chapel Hill at 8:45 p.m. in the Tenaha SEC for the tournament Championship.
Leading the Bulldog team was Kenneth Ross with 22 points. Timpson was led by LT Washington with 18 points.
