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Gore
B: Sports, Sports
January 19, 2023

Gore takes two from Porter Pirates Tuesday

By Lea Lessley Sports Writer 

Gore won both of its Riverside Athletic Conference contests Tuesday night at Porter.

GORE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Gore won both of its Riverside Athletic Conference contests Tuesday night at Porter.

Gore girls 56, Porter 45

Gore’s Lindsey Pierce scored a team-high 25 points Tuesday night in Wagoner County as the visiting Lady Pirates (2-7 overall) downed Porter Consolidated (510) in the conference game.

Pierce and Kennedy Williams registered four points apiece in the opening period to help Gore build a 10-7 lead.

In the second quarter Emily Daily hit a pair of 3-pointers and Williams added three points but Raylee Allison scored 12 points for the host Lady Pirates, who trimmed a point (14-13) off the deficit.

Gore led 23-21 at the intermission. The visiting Lady Pirates added six points (15-9) to their advantage in the third stanza behind the scoring of Pierce (7 points) and Natalie Casteel (two 3-pointers).

In the final eight minutes Pierce scored 12 points and Williams hit a pair of 2-point field goals as Gore increased its lead (18-15). Allison recorded 10 points for Porter in the fourth.

Trailing Pierce in scoring for Gore in the game were Williams (11 points), Casteel and Daily (6 each), Aspyn Cearley (4) and Oaklei Thornton and Rayleigh Moore (2 apiece).

Porter’s top three scorers were Allison (26 points), Lauren Lindell (10) and Abby Gourd (5).

Gore boys 60, Porter 49

Jackson Duke and three other Gore (8-3 overall) players scored in double figures Tuesday night as the visiting Pirates registered the conference victory at Porter Consolidated (5-9).

In the opening frame Aidan Dickerson recorded six points, Duke scored five of his game-high 22 points and Noah Cooper made a 3-pointer as Gore went in front 14-12. Logan Crain scored six points for Porter in the period.

Gore led 30-27 at the break after outscoring the host Pirates 16-15 in the second quarter. Duke knocked down a pair of 3-pointers and scored 10 points and Journey Shells added a pair of 2-point field goals while Mason Plunk and Sam Hensley registered seven and six points, respectively, for Porter.

Behind the scoring of Shells (3-pointer and five points), Cooper (4 points) and Dickerson (3-pointer) Gore widened (1412) its advantage in the third stanza. Blake Cole hit a couple of 3-pointers for Porter in the period.

Duke (7 points) made his fourth 3-pointer of the contest in the final eight minutes and Cooper added five points for the visiting Pirates, who increased their advantage (16-10). Plunk recorded four points in the fourth.

Cooper (14 points) and Dickerson and Shells (11 each) trailed Duke in scoring and also registering points for Gore in the contest was Ben Kirkpatrick (2).

Porter’s top five scorers were Plunk (18 points), Crain and Hensley (9 apiece), Cole (6) and Logan Faulconer (5).

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