The Brownwood Lions’ search for their first District 6-4A basketball victory will take them to Mineral Wells Friday as Tuesday night at Warren Gym, the league front-running Glen Rose Tigers chalked up an 82-48 victory.
The loss was with the fifth straight for the Lions (10-19, 0-3), who are the only 6-4A team without a league victory after Mineral Wells (1-2) upended Stephenville, 41-36, Tuesday night.
“We’ve got five games left and I feel like we can play with any team in our district, it just depends on which guys are going to show up that night,” said Lions head coach Will Parker. “We just have to make a consistent effort at practices so we’re trying to create game speed situations. I don’t want to see the game slow us down. We were not ready for the pace tonight and we should be the ones controlling the pace.”
The Lions fell behind 23-12 after one quarter, 40-20 at halftime and Glen Rose (15-13, 4-0) carried a 57-34 lead into the fourth quarter.
Brownwood was led by Casey Friebel’s 14 points, 11 from Hayden Noe, 10 from Weston Wolf, four from Morsello Hooker, three each from Ross Strasner and Austin Pittman and two points from Noah Pyle.
Glen Rose received 19 points from Zeke Niedziela – all in the first half – 13 points from Camden Singletary – all in the second half – 12 from Tomas De La Cruz, and 11 points each from Dawson Miller and Noah Voss.
“That’s a good team over there,” Parker said. “They’ve been playing together a long time and they gave us all we could handle. We have to be able to respond better. We have to regroup tomorrow and get ready for Mineral Wells on Friday.”
