The football team’s success had left Meigs County’s basketball team shorthanded to begin the season, and the result was a dismal start. But now with a full roster – including three starters who were late to join the team after the football Tigers’ run to the state semifinals – the results are starting to turn in their favor.
Meigs County registered its second win of the week Friday night, pulling away from Arts & Sciences for a 43-33 victory in the Chatt-Town Classic at Chattanooga State.
“We’re a different team with those guys back out after football season ended, and they’re starting to get in basketball shape now, too,” said Tigers coach Sammy Perkinson, whose team began the season with 10 straight losses. “We’ve been solid the past couple of weeks. We’ve won our last two, and the two before that we lost to a pair of really good teams by two points each.
“Tonight’s win is big for us because anytime you can come into Chattanooga and get a win it’s good for the confidence. Things are starting to turn back in a good direction now. It would have been easy to go in the other direction after the way we started the season, but we’re getting good effort and that’s a good sign.”
Meigs County took the lead late in the second quarter and maintained a narrow advantage throughout the second half. Brantley Baker’s 3-pointer just before the third-quarter buzzer pushed the lead to six, and his fast-break layup late in the fourth gave his team its first double-digit lead.