Maroon Tide rolls past D'Iberville 72-39

Lady Tide falls 51-35

by Carey Meitzler

The Maroon Tide jumped out early and never was threatened in running past the D'Iberville Warriors 72-39 at Kelly Wise

Memorial Gymnasium.  The win pushes Picayune's record to 9-0 overall and 2-0 in Region 8-4A and sets up a huge game

on Thursday at Long Beach, who is also 2-0 in region play.

Chris Dees scored 11 of his game high 18 points in the first quarter to give Picayune a 16-9 lead.  In the second quarter, Reshun

Smith dropped in six points while Travis Aubin and Ben Daly each scored four points to push the lead to 35-17 at the half.

Smith finished with 13 points and Aubin had 10 points.   Daly had 8 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 blocked shots.

Travis Aubin (14) fires up a three pointer against D'Iberville.

D'Iberville 51   Lady Tide  35

The Lady Tide ran into a very good Lady Warrior team in their Region 8-4A lid lifter and dropped a 51-35 decision.

D'Iberville (7-4, 1-0) used good perimeter ball movement and a strong inside game from Raquel Burney to race out to

a 33-19 halftime lead.

Burney, who finished with a game high 14 points and 12 rebounds, blocked 11 shots that made the going tough for the Lady

Tide in the lane the entire night.

Picayune (7-5,0-1) cut the lead to 37-30 on an Ebony Jones three pointer with 3:35 left in the third quarter, but Burney

scored off an offensive rebound and Kaci Burkhalter followed with a layup off a steal to push the lead back to 41-30

with 1:25 left in the third.

D'Iberville slowed down the tempo in the fourth quarter and got three layups from Burney to pull away.

Monique Brown led Picayune with 12 points and Jones finished with 8 points, including two 3 pointers.

Burkhalter scored 12 points for D'Iberville.

Janea Wills (center) and Karly Moran (12) try to keep Raquel Burney (35) from getting a pass from a Lady Warrior.