The Pampa Hustlin’ Harvesters (6-4) traveled to Childress last weekend for an annual tournament where they went 3-1 to finish third. They took down Wellington (50-47), Idalou (41-40) and Amarillo High’s Junior Varsity (66-30) and their lone loss came
against Holliday (65-58).
“We played great defense the entire weekend other than the first half against Holliday,” Head Coach Braydon Barker said. “We scored 35 points in the first half against a very good Holliday team, but we gave up 41. That was our only bad half of defense the entire tournament.
“We also attacked the rim very well this weekend. We weren't shooting well from the perimeter, but we did a great job scoring in the paint.”
For his second straight tournament, Senior Jose Alonzo received All-Tournament Honors after scoring 59 points in three of the contests (stats unavailable for one game).
Jose Alonzo
“Jose had a great weekend of basketball,” Barker said. “He played tremendous defense and was very aggressive getting to the rim offensively. He led our team in deflections for the weekend and in scoring so he was playing well on both ends of the floor.
“His teammates found him in transition as well, so that really got our offense going against Amarillo High.”
The Harvesters’ offense goes through Senior Dalton Booth who has had games this year where he led the team in scoring. In the tournament, he averaged 10.6 points/game against Holliday, Idalou and AHS JV, as a perfect compliment to Alonzo’s offensive performance.
“Dalton has the ball in hands the majority of the game,” Barker said. “Even when he is not scoring, he is creating great looks for his teammates.
“He leads our team in assists, and he also takes care of the ball without turning the ball over. He always has very active hands defensively, so he is able to get a lot of steals.”
The Harvesters have one final tune-up before District starts at Borger next Monday as they traveled to River Road on Tuesday.
“River Road will be our last non-district game before district starts against Borger next Monday,” Barker said. “We tried several different lineups the last two weekends during tournaments, so we just need to fine tune a few things before district starts. We were much better this weekend limiting our turnovers than we were at the New Home tournament, so that was good to see.”
Stat Roundup
Vs. Idalou
Sophomore Talan Garcia had two points with one rebound, two deflections and a steal; Senior Dalton Booth had nine points, went 3-4 in free throws, had four rebounds, four deflections and two steals; Senior Jose Alonzo had 13 points, went 1-2 in free throws, had four rebounds, one assist, seven deflections and six steals; Senior Cam Johnston had four points with one deflections; Senior Aaron Martinez had seven points, went 1-3 in free throws, had four deflections and two steals; Senior Keegan Upton had two rebounds and two deflections; Senior Parker Webb had four points with six rebounds, three deflections and one steal; Senior Tristan Bagwell had two points, had three rebounds, two deflections and one steal.
Vs. Holliday
Garcia had four points, went 2-2 in free throws, had five rebounds, three assists and two steals; Booth had 13 points, went 5-6 in free throws, had two rebounds, three assists, five deflections and three steals; Alonzo had 22 points, went 2-2 from the stripe, had four rebounds, one assist, five deflections and four steals; Martinez had six points with one deflection and one steal; Senior Conner Hall had one assist and one deflection; Upton had five points, went 1-2 in free throws, with two rebounds and two deflections; Webb had four points with three rebounds and one deflection; Bagwell had four points, four rebounds and one deflection.
Vs. AHS JV
Garcia had nine points, went 1-1 in free throws, one rebound, one assist, two deflections and two steals; Booth had 10 points, went 3-4 in free throws, two rebound, four assists, 13 deflections, eight steals and one block; Alonzo had 24 points, went 2-2 in free throws; one rebound, two assists, seven deflections and four steals; Martinez had five points, went 1-4 in free throws, had six rebounds, one assist and four deflections; Upton had eight points, three rebounds, three deflections and two steals; Webb had two points, three rebounds, five assists, two deflections, two steals and one block; Bagwell had four points, one rebound, two deflections, three steals and one block; Senior Dase Scott had one rebound, two deflections and two steals.