The Tippah County basketball season’s first full week ended with wins for nearly every area program. Walnut swept a Friday home doubleheader, Blue Mountain won all three of its games with posted scores, and Pine Grove and Hickory Flat each swept Houlka. Benton County’s Ashland had a tough Friday against two Pontotoc-area opponents.
Scores below come from MaxPreps schedule pages as of Sunday morning, Nov. 8. Home and away teams are listed as MaxPreps shows them.
Tippah County Basketball: Walnut Sweeps Friday at Home
Walnut hosted two games Friday, Nov. 7, and won both.
Girls: Walnut 77, Strayhorn 12
Boys: Walnut 64, Tishomingo County 60
The boys’ four-point win over Tishomingo County, from Iuka, was the closer of the two games. North Tippah’s football season ended in the first round of the playoffs on Nov. 6, so the Wildcats’ gym is now the main event in Walnut.
Blue Mountain Goes 3-0 This Week
Blue Mountain opened the week at home Tuesday, Nov. 3, with a sweep of Thrasher.
Girls (Nov. 3): Blue Mountain 41, Thrasher 20
Boys (Nov. 3): Blue Mountain 55, Thrasher 48
Boys (Nov. 7): Blue Mountain 55, Calhoun City 52 (at Calhoun City)
Blue Mountain also hosted Jumpertown on Thursday, Nov. 6, and its girls played at Calhoun City on Friday. No scores for those games had been posted to MaxPreps as of Sunday morning.
Pine Grove Sweeps at Houlka
Pine Grove traveled to Houlka on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and came home with two wins.
Girls: Pine Grove 46, Houlka 15
Boys: Pine Grove 69, Houlka 65
The Panthers hosted East Union on Thursday, Nov. 6. Those results had not been posted yet.
Benton County: Hickory Flat Splits, Ashland Falls
Hickory Flat lost two close games at Byhalia on Tuesday, Nov. 3, then swept Houlka at home Thursday.
Girls (Nov. 3): Byhalia 74, Hickory Flat 72
Boys (Nov. 3): Byhalia 64, Hickory Flat 58
Girls (Nov. 6): Hickory Flat 70, Houlka 17
Boys (Nov. 6): Hickory Flat 49, Houlka 43
The Hickory Flat girls lost by just two points at Byhalia, then beat Houlka by 53 two nights later.
Ashland played two games Friday, Nov. 7:
Boys: Nettleton 71, Ashland 48 (at Ashland)
Girls: South Pontotoc 75, Ashland 16 (at South Pontotoc)
Ripley and Falkner
The week’s other area matchup was Tuesday’s county rivalry game in Ripley, where the Ripley girls beat Falkner 60-54. MaxPreps listed no other Ripley or Falkner results from Nov. 3-7 as of Sunday morning.
Coaches and schools can report scores and stats through MaxPreps. Tippah News will keep tracking area results as the season goes on.
Jon Ross Myers is the executive editor and publisher of the Mississippi News Network, Mississippi's largest digital only media company. He can be reached at editor@tippahnews.com
