By Cort Reynolds
RAWSON__The youthful Ada High School boys basketball team went on the road and earned their first victory 53-40 at non-league local foe Cory-Rawson Saturday night, December 23.
The spunky Bulldogs improved to 1-6 with the big victory.
C-R dropped to 2-4 with the home defeat.
The Bulldogs led 7-6 after a low-scoring first period, then stretched the margin a bit to 17-12 at the half. Ada pulled further ahead by a 31-23 margin heading to the final stanza.
The Bulldogs won a high-scoring fourth quarter 22-17 to post the key win.
“We basically led wire-to-wire,” said Ada third-year head coach Vince Halliday. “The first half wasn’t pretty.
“Slade (Gossman) carried us in the first half with offensive rebounds and putbacks,” he continued. “We made some shots in the second half and got one!”
