Falcons get past Spartans 58-53
Published 8:00 am Sunday, December 14, 2025
GLASGOW – South Warren turned up the pressure and forced Monroe County into six turnovers in the final quarter of Saturday’s boys’ basketball matchup in the Don Franklin Auto Barren Hoops Classic at Barren County High School.
The Falcons managed to force just one turnover in that same span, but it was a big one – the Spartans lost the ball with just less than seven seconds left and trailing by three points. That forced South to foul, and Monroe County’s Brison Nuckols iced the game by hitting a pair of free throws with four seconds to go to boost the Falcons to a 58-53 win.
“We had a set drawn up that we were going to try – I thought we had a clear look that we were going to get,” South Warren coach Carlos Quarles said. “It just wasn’t good execution to get that shot off. We had a wide-open shot, but that’s just the way it happens sometimes. We’ll get back after it Tuesday night.”
South Warren (3-1) trailed by as many as 10 points in the third quarter before clawing back into the game. The Spartans did it by pressing Monroe County (4-1) for much of the second half, coming up with nine turnovers while losing only three in the final two quarters.
Back-to-back baskets by Caden McIntyre and Jaxen Decker got South within 53-49 with 4:03 to play, but Monroe’s Branson Williams got loose inside for a basket and then hit a free throw for three straight points.
The Spartans got two points back when Decker hit a pull-up jumper in the paint, then after another forced turnover Owen Shively cut through the lane to hit a one-handed shot that got South to within 56-53 with 37 seconds to play.
South then forced another turnover, but lost possession with its own turnover in the final seconds.
Monroe County finished the first half strong, outscoring the Spartans 13-3 over the final 3:29 to build a 35-28 lead at the break.
Nuckols led the Falcons with a game-high 18 points. Williams added 13 in the win.
Decker just missed a double-double for the Spartans with 11 points and nine rebounds. McIntyre tallied 10 points, and Brandon Perkins and Clay Willis scored nine points each.
“The emphasis is to get paint points and paint touches and we settled for too many jump shots on key possessions where I thought we got them in trouble a little bit and kind of bailed them out by shooting jump shots,” Quarles said. “We weren’t making them today, so it wasn’t to our benefit. We’ve got to make a few more shots, we’ve got to make our layups – I think we missed maybe 10 layups and every time we’d miss a layup they’d got down and hit a 3 .. five-points swings that were keeping us from trying to get control of the game.”
South Warren is back in action Tuesday at home against Barren County.
SWHS 11 17 15 10 – 53
MCHS – 13 22 14 9 – 58
SWHS – Decker 11, McIntyre 10, Perkins 9, Willis 9, Shively 8, Knight 3, Pratt 3.
MCHS – Nuckols 18, Williams 13, Geralds 8, Bartley 7, Baxter 6, Gearlds 5, Rich 1.
Clinton County 71, Greenwood 45
Clinton County put together a decisive rally spanning the second and third quarters to pull away from Greenwood for a 71-45 victory on Saturday at Barren County.
Holding a 26-2-0 lead with 3:53 left in the second quarter, the Bulldogs outscored the Gators 18-3 during a stretch that extended into the third. William Beaty (game-high 27 points) capped that surge with back-to-back 3-pointers as Clinton County (3-2) claimed an impressive win in Region 4 competition.
Greenwood (3-2) fell behind 10-0 to start the game, but surged back with 10-4 run to get within 14-11 after Chaze Huff’s made free throw late in the first quarter.
The Bulldogs led by six to start the second quarter and maintained the lead until the decisive run over the second and third quarters. /cxkub
“We fought back after digging ourselves in a hole early and made it a one- or two-possession game,” Greenwood coach Will McCoy said. “Then we let them go on a (9-1) run to go into the half. It took quite a bit of wind out of our sails. They’re a team that when you get down double digits to Clinton County with that methodical style that they like to play, it’s extremely tough to get back into the game. They’re disciplined, they know where to go with the ball and what to do with the ball.
“We tried to speed them up and on a few possessions were successful. We just gave them way too many easy baskets at the rim and dug ourselves too big of a hole there.”
Jaxson Mason scored 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Clinton County, with Drew Davis chipping in eight points. The Bulldogs outrebounded the Gators 29-18.
Isaiah Summers finished with 10 points and Brayden Kennedy had nine points for Greenwood, which is back in action Tuesday at home against North Hardin.
CCHS 17 18 19 17 – 71
GHS 11 10 14 10 – 45
CCHS – Beaty 27, J. Mason 18, Davis 8, Moore 7, McCutchen 6, Harmon 3, C. Mason 2.
GHS – Summers 10, Kennedy 9, York 8, Graves 5, Huff 5, Tabor 3, Daniels 2, Meador 2, Isenhower 1.
Barren County 75, Edmonson County 56
Host Barren County knocked down 10 3-pointers in Saturday’s 75-56 win against Edmonson County.
Weston Shelton scored a career-high 25 points, hitting six 3-pointers, to lead the Trojans. Kade Hardy added 16 points, Gavin Nunn had 13 points and Cameron Pippen tallied 11 points in the win for Barren County (4-1), which visits South Warren on Tuesday.
Blayne Deweese scored 14 points to lead Edmonson County (2-3). Jonah Massey added 11 points and Aiden Meredith had 10 points for the Wildcats, who are at Fort Knox on Tuesday.
ECHS 13 19 9 15 – 56
BCHS – 19 18 14 24 – 75
ECHS – Deweese 14, Massey 11, Meredith 10, Wilson 7, Wright 6, Cook 4, Simmons 4.
BCHS – Shelton 25, Hardy 16, Nunn 13, Pippen 11, Byrd 5, Browning 3, Blackburn 2.
North Hardin 77, Glasgow 74
North Hardin outscored Glasgow by six points in the final quarter to claim a 77-74 win Saturday at Barren County.
Terrion Mack scored a game-high 23 points to lead the Trojans to the win. Michael Cleaver added 22 points and Jakylin Kirkland finished with 15 points for North Hardin (3-1).
Jaylen Bradley tallied 20 points to lead the Scotties. Carter Hodges just missed a double-double and finished with 17 points, nine rebounds and four blocks. Landon Minton also scored in double digits with 10 points for Glasgow (1-3), which hosts Franklin-Simpson on Tuesday.
NHHS 21 16 22 18 – 77
GHS 25 17 20 12 – 74
NHHS – Mack 23, Cleaver 22, Kirkland 15, Carter 7, House 4, Bostic 3, Jackson 3.
GHS – Bradley 20, Hodges 17, Minton 10, Collor 8, Norris 8, Moore 6, England 3, Martin 2.
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