Marshall County and Christian Fellowship played for the third time over the past four years but Tuesday’s game was the first in district play since 2004-05 season. In last year’s final regular season game, CFS battled back from a 26-point deficit in the fourth quarter to cut the lead down to 10 in the Marshals 69-58 win.
Marshall County led 8-2 before CFS closed it to 12-11 on a couple of 3-pointers from Bryce Cary and Elijah Grigg, but the Marshals finished out the quarter on a 10-0 run on four points from Wade Moore, a three from Colby Schroader, two points by Kole Sedlock and a Logan Davis free throw.
Hunter Wallace dropped in nine points to lead the second quarter scoring for the Marshals. Trey Wall had five to finish the half with eight points along with a 10-point first half for Moore and eight for Schroader. The lead was 20 at 43-23 at halftime.
Two 3-pointers each from Wall and Schroader led the Marshals in the third quarter on their way to out-scoring CFS 20-6 to stretch the lead to 34 points.
Eighth grader, Elijah Grigg, scored the final four points for CFS in the third and scored the first nine points for the Eagles in the fourth on his way to a team-leading 18 points. Five points from Wall led the Marshals in the fourth and he finished with 17.
The Marshals improve to 14-7 and will play at Paducah Tilghman (12-7) on Friday. The Eagles are 8-10 and will play at Gleason, Tenn. on Thursday.
CFS 11 12 6 13 – 42
Marshall 22 21 20 10 – 73
CFS: E. Grigg 18, L. Grigg 8, Hovekamp 7, Cary 5, Dunning 4
Marshall: Wall 17, Schroder 14, Moore 11, Wallace 9, Parker 6, Smith 5, Sedlock 4, Anderson 3, Davis 2
CFS: FG 16/47, 3 PT 4/14, FT 6/9 (E. Grigg 4/5), REB 17
Marshall: FG 28/44, 3 PT 11/24 (Schroader 4, Wall 3), FT 6/9, REB 27