Brandon Hizer

The Paden City Boys Basketball team traveled to Wellsville to take on the Tigers in an OVAC semi-final game on Tuesday February 8th and came home on the short end of a 75-28 loss. The loss puts the Wildcats in the consolation game on Friday, February 11th at Weirton Madonna. Paden City managed to keep the game close after the first period trailing by 10 but a big 25-8 second quarter run by the Tigers put the game out of reach. Paden City with only eight players could not match the depth of the Tigers and early foul trouble put them in a tough situation for a comeback. Leading the Cats in scoring was Mickey Guerra with nine points followed by Shane Anderson with eight. Brandon Hizer, who scored 31 in the previous game against Montcalm was held to a season low four points. Wellsville was led by Jaxon Brewer with a game high 25 points and Eddie Stock with 16.

Paden City Drops WVHIT Game

The Paden City Wildcats Boys Basketball team faced off against Union at South Harrison on February 12th in a WVHIT game that saw the Wildcats fall by the score of 56-39. Even though the Cats had seven players crack the scoring column they could not slow down Union. Paden City took a 1st quarter lead 9-6 but were outscored 21-11 in the second period to fall behind at halftime 27-20. The third period saw each team score nine points but the fourth quarter was the downfall for the Wildcats as they were out scored 20-10.

Leading scorer for Paden City was Shane Anderson with 15 points and 12 rebounds followed closely by Brandon Hizer with 13 points and five rebounds and Joey Baker chipped in 11points. Union had two in double figures with Savage scoring 17 and Gaither 28 points.

Paden City Loses to Madonna

Paden City boys basketball team made the long trip to Weirton on Friday, February 11 to take on the Blue Dons. It was all Madonna as they dominated the Wildcats by the score oh 79-38. Shane Anderson was again the leading scorer for the Wildcats with a double-double of 12 points and 12 rebounds followed by Joey Baker with eight points and five rebounds and Brandon Hizer with seven points and nine rebounds.