PINCKNEYVILLE — Pinckneyville’s Dre Scott and Fairfield’s Landon Zurliene each scored 20 points Saturday night. The two teams’ defenses locked nearly everybody else up. The end result was a 48-42 Pinckneyville win in the final game of the day long Panther Showcase.
The game was tied at 15 after one quarter, but Pinckneyville took control by outscoring Fairfield 15-5 in the second. Scott did much of the first half damage for the Panthers as he scored 16 of his 20 points.
Staring at a 10-point deficit coming out of halftime, the Mules promptly opened the third quarter on an 8-0, but they could never tie the game or take the lead.
The Panthers extended the lead back to nine in the fourth, then survived poor free throw shooting (6/14), and Zurliene’s late barrage of three-pointers.
In other games from the Panther Showcase:
Steeleville 55, Odin 25
Cairo 50, Waltonville 43
Cobden 50, Chester 34
Meridian 66, Mt. Pulaski 62
Mt. Carmel 64, Whitfield (MO) 40
Centralia 58, Freeburg 41
Mater Dei 58, Marion 43