“It was probably our best defensive game of the year. We have not played much zone this year, but we went to a 1-2-2 zone and played pretty much the whole game in it,  which worked out well. We shut their scoring down,” Coach Culbreth said.

Game Stats

Polk County 51, Madison 49

Polk: 9;10;19;13 – 51

Madison: 11;10;7;11 – 39

Polk: Kropp, 21; Overholt, 9; Flood, 7; Deaver, 4; Ruff, 4; Phipps, 4; and Brown, 3.

Records: Polk, 10-8, 4-4 WHC. Madison, 12-5, 5-3. Next game: Mountain Heritage at home last night due to weather. See results in Tuesday’s edition.