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Mason's heroics carry East past Beloit

The heroics were even greater than imagined Thursday night in a Big Eight boys basketball game everybody expected to be close.

Marquis Mason made an acrobatic fallaway putback shot at the buzzer to give Madison East an improbable, 52-51 victory over Beloit Memorial in the battle for second place at Barkin Arena.

It was the seventh-ranked Purgolders’ 11th straight win, lifting them to 10-2 in the conference and 12-2 overall. The loss dropped 10th-ranked Beloit to 9-3 and 11-3.

Mason finished with 28 points. His shot came after Beloit missed a shot with 12 seconds to play, holding a one-point lead and with East having only four team fouls. The Purgolders missed the shot, but Mason grabbed the ball and falling down, just beat the buzzer with the putback.

A 13-0 run in the third quarter put the Purgolders ahead 39-30.

Jahail Smith had 20 points and Terrell Parks added 17 for Beloit (12-3).

EAST 52, BELOIT 51

East (52)—Hilliard, 2-2-7; Park, 2-0-5; Bacallao, 1-0-2; Bartelt, 2-2-6; McAdams, 1-0-2; Mason, 11-6-28; Terry, 0-2-2. Totals: 19-12-52.

Beloit (51)—Stone, 1-2-4; Lindsey, 0-1-1; Young, 1-0-2; Smith, 8-1-20; Douglas, 0-1-1; Parks, 7-3-17; Davis, 3-0-6. Totals: 20-8-51.

Madison East 13 14 16 9—52

Beloit Memorial 12 18 8 13—51

Three-point goals—East 2 (Hilliard, Park), Beloit 3 (Smith 3). Free throws missed—East 1, Beloit 4. Total fouls—East 12, Beloit 16.

Sophomores—Beloit 69, East 37.

n Memorial 69, Sun Prairie 46—Russell Henderson and Vander Blue scored 13 points each to lead five-time defending champion Madison Memorial to a Big Eight win at Sun Prairie.

Second-ranked Memorial (12-1, 10-1) rolled to a 12-point halftime lead and never looked back.

Sam Marshall had a game-high 20 points for Sun Prairie (5-7, 3-7).

MEMORIAL 69, SUN PRAIRIE 46

Memorial (69)—Henderson, 4-2-13; E. Blue, 4-8-12; Jones, 1-2-5; Olson, 0-1-1; Creamer, 1-0-2; V. Blue, 5-3-13; Lomomba, 4-0-8; Frohling, 1-2-4; Maymon, 4-2-11. Totals: 22-20-69.

Sun Priarie (46)—Thiel, 1-0-2; Cobb, 2-0-4; Porter, 2-2-7; Enstad, 1-0-2; Boos, 1-1-3; Davis, 1-0-2; Marshall, 10-0-20; Noskowiak, 3-0-6. Totals: 21-3-46.

Madison Memorial 12 16 14 27—69

Sun Prairie 8 8 10 20—46

Three-point goals—Memorial 5 (Henderson 3, Jones, Maymon), Sun Prairie 1 (Porter). Free throws missed—Memorial 5, Sun Prairie 4. Total fouls—Memorial 11, 20. Fouled out—Noskowiak.

Sophomores—Memorial won.

n Verona 66, Middleton 45—After the Cardinals (5-9, 4-8) won a double-overtime thriller on their home court last week, Verona’s 21-5 first-quarter command took away all the suspense in this Big Eight game at Middleton.

Conference scoring leader Jason Ziemer led Verona (9-4, 8-3) with 19 points, but eight players scored for the Wildcats in the first quarter.

VERONA 66, MIDDLETON 45

Verona (66)—Platto, 2-0-6; Karls, 2-2-6; Brandt, 0-4-4; Ropel, 3-0-6; Mason, 0-1-1; Schaaf, 0-3-3; Christensen, 2-0-4; Ziemer, 8-2-19; Wadzinski, 5-0-12; Peterson, 0-2-2; Riebau, 1-0-3. Totals: 23-14-66.

Middleton (45)—Adler, 1-0-3; McCauley, 1-0-2; Braga, 1-2-4; Owen, 2-0-5; Everson, 4-1-10; Yaktus, 5-0-13; Nunnery, 2-1-6; Opitz, 0-2-2. Totals: 16-6-45.

Verona 21 18 14 13—66

Middleton 5 18 13 9—45

Three-point goals—Verona 6 (Platto 2, Wadzinski 2, Ziemer, Riebau), Middleton 7 (Yaktus 3, Adler, Oswen, Everson, Nunnery). Free thjrows missed—Verona 4, Middleton 3. Total fouls—Verona 22, Middleton 17.