The Pampa Hustlin’ Harvesters (21-11, 7-5) clinched a playoff berth for the second straight season after their 63-50 win over the Dumas Demons Tuesday. Their playoff seed is set at the four seed, but now the Harvesters have the opportunity to continue their momentum in their final two regular season games. They will play Midland Greenwood on Feb. 23 or 24.
“Clinching a playoff berth for the second year in a row feels awesome,” Head Coach Braydon Barker said. “It makes the last two games of district much less stressful.
Although our playoff seed and matchup is already set, we still want to go out and play well these last 2 district games to prepare for the playoffs.The Harvesters were down 20-13 after the first quarter, and even trailed 32-28 at half.
But the Harvesters roared back in the second half, out-scoring Dumas 24-11 in the third quarter to take a 52-43 lead after three. The Harvesters held on and took the 63-50 win.
“I thought our post players played extremely well on Tuesday,” Barker said. “Especially in the second half. We are a really tough team to play against when we can score from all over the floor.”
The 10 seniors for the Pampa Harvesters now have a chance to return to the playoffs after making a deep run last year.
“I am proud of these seniors and how much work they have put in the last four years in this program,” Barker said. “I am glad that they are going to experience another playoff run in their last year of high school.”
The Harvesters returned to action on Friday when they traveled to Canyon. They will end the season on Tuesday at McNeely Fieldhouse against West Plains.
“We are going to use these last two games to fine tune some things we need to fix to try to make a deep playoff run again,” Barker said. “Canyon and West Plains are both playoff teams as well, so it will be a tough final two games heading into the playoffs.”
Stat roundup
Vs. Dumas
Senior Dalton Booth had 22 points, hit two threes, went 6-8 in free throws, had six rebounds, seven assists, one deflection and five steals; Senior Tristan Bagwell had nine points, went 5-9 in free throws, had six rebounds, one assist, two deflections and two steals; Senior Jose Alonzo had 17 points with one three, went 2-2 in free throws, four rebounds, six assists and one steal; Senior Parker Webb had seven points, went 1-4 in free throws, had seven rebounds, two deflections and one steal; Senior Conner Hall had six points, went 1-2 in free throws, had one three and one rebound; Senior Dase Scott had two points after going 2-3 in free throws, had three rebounds and one steal; Sophomore Talan Garcia had six rebounds, two assists and one deflection and Senior Keegan Upton had three rebounds and one deflection.
Vs. Randall
Senior Trill Young had six points, went 2-5 in free throws, had six rebounds, two assists, two deflections and one block; Webb had six points, went 2-2 in free throws, four rebounds, two deflections, one steal and one block; Alonzo had four points with two rebounds and one assist; Garcia had four points with one three and went 1-2 in free throws, one rebound and one deflection; Senior Shubh Doshi had three points with a three, had two rebounds and one deflection; Upton had three points and went 1-2 in free throws with four rebounds and one steal; Scott had three points, went 1-2 in free throws and two rebounds; Booth had two points with four rebounds, one assist, five deflections, one steal and one block; Bagwell had two points with four rbeounds, two deflections, one steal and one block.