Searcy, Ar. (LP) – The Searcy Lady Lions and the Men’s Lions Basketball teams took on the Benton Panthers. The Lady Lions broke their losing streak of eighteen loses from last season. The Searcy Lions Men’s basketball team lost their first game. The Lady Lions finished with a score of 56-50, winning their first game of the season. The Searcy Lions men’s Basketball team finished with a score of 80-65. Both teams are taking on the Watson Chapel Wild Cats of Pine Bluff on Monday, November 19th. Then they go on to face the Stuttgart Rice Birds on Tuesday, November 20th. Coach John White and Kim Sitzmann are looking forward to an amazing season ahead and are spending their practice days scouting games, going over reports, and making sure their teams are ready for the next game ahead.
*Shooting the three*
Junior player, Freddy Hicks, led the team in scoring with a total of twenty-nine points. Freddy Hicks thinks when the football players return from football, then they will have a pretty good ball team. Freddy Hicks mentioned a few people who will be returning from the Searcy Football team, “Damone Lockhart, Bryce Dixon, Trystan Alcorn, Tanner Leanard, and hopefully Tony Young, are only a few of the many players we are missing due to football.” Freddy Hicks states, “I’m looking forward to the season, I think that this season will be a pretty good season. I still feel like I didn’t score enough points all because we didn’t win the game.” Freddy Hicks is hoping the opportunity comes for him to play basketball in college.
Alexis Broadway and Naliyah Hadley lined up to get the rebound with four other Benton Panther players. Credit to Mr. Mathew Bowman.
Senior of the Searcy Lady Lions Basketball team, Alexis Broadway, scored a total of thirty points. Alexis Broadway, played for Searcy her ninth grade year and has returned her senior year to play for Coach Kim Sitzmann. “This is my first year back and I can’t wait for the season ahead,” states Senior, Alexis Broadway. Alexis Broadway was the leading scorer for the Searcy Lady Lions, followed by Senior, Ta’Lor Branch with eight points and her being in foul trouble the first half of the game and Whitney Davis with a total of seven points finishing off the game. “This was the first game of the season and I was just ready to show up and show out,” states Senior, Alexis Broadway.
By the end of the season the Lady Lions are expecting to have a student section and a bigger crowd than they have had the past few years and the Searcy Lions Men’s basketball team thanks the student section for the support they received.
