Republic overcame a sluggish start on the road and ran away from Reeds Spring in the second half, 61-33. Ten different players scored in the victory for the Tigers.
After the freshmen and JV teams won their games by a combined 80 points, the stage was set for the varsity Tigers to make quick work of the Wolves. But Republic started slowly, and didn’t score a field goal until about five minutes into the game, when a Jake Fletcher layup gave the Tigers a 5-2 lead.
From there, Republic stretched the lead slowly, to 11-4 at the end of the first quarter, and 29-14 at halftime.
The Tigers came out with a lot more energy in the 2nd half, and that’s when they put the game away. Republic scored ten straight points — eight of them by Nick Yocum — to stretch their lead to 39-14 in the early part of the third quarter. They never looked back from there.
Nick Yocum scored 11 to lead the Tigers’ balanced attack. Cody Geiger and Grant Hancock had 10 apiece. Jake Fletcher scored 9. Pierce Pittman and Payton Looney each scored 5. Marcus Miller and Ty Abney had 4, and Canyon Smith added 2.
Republic improves to 13-4.
