<p>The TMP-Marian Monarch boys and girls basketball teams
closed out the Mid-Continent League Saturday with a pair of wins over the Ellis
Railroaders. </p><p>The TMP boys never trailed on their way to their way to a
68-38 win in the third-place game.</p><p>The girls used a strong second half to pull away for the
58-52 win in the fifth-place game.</p><p><b>Boys: TMP 68, 38</b></p><p>The Monarchs wasted little time jumping out to an early lead
12-2 lead. Jackson Schulte scored eight of his team-high 18 points in the first
half as the Monarchs built an 18-8 lead first quarter lead.</p><p>TMP opened the second quarter on an 11-2 run with Schulte
and Dylan Werth combining to score all 11 points as TMP led at that point
29-10.</p><p>The Monarchs were able to build a 24-point lead in the
second quarter at 39-15.</p><p>In the third quarter the Monarchs led by as many as 33 at
56-23. With the continues clock in the fourth quarter TMP clinched the 68-38 win.</p><p><b>Coach Bill Meagher</b></p><div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/971445385&color=%23013c7b&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509" title="Eagle Radio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Eagle Radio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509/01-23-21-tmp-boys-interview" title="01 - 23 - 21 TMP coach Bill Meagher" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">01 - 23 - 21 TMP coach Bill Meagher</a></div></div><p>Schulte’s 18 points led three Monarchs in double-figures.
Dylan Werth finished with 14 points and Lucas Lang added 13.</p><p><b>Game Highlights</b></p><div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/971445442&color=%23013c7b&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509" title="Eagle Radio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Eagle Radio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509/01-23-21-tmp-boys-highlights" title="01 - 23 - 21 TMP boys highlights vs Ellis" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">01 - 23 - 21 TMP boys highlights vs Ellis</a></div></div><p>The TMP boys improved to 8-3 while Ellis dropped to 8-3.</p><p><b>Girls: TMP 58, Ellis 52</b></p><p>After a pair of early ties TMP jumped out to an 8-4 lead and
led after one quarter 10-7. Emilee Lane scored six of hear eight points in the
first quarter.</p><p>Ellis’ Emily Eck scored the first eight points of the second
quarter and helped Ellis build a 15-10 lead. Ellis was able to hold onto the
lead until the end of the first half when TMP’s Megan Hamel drained a three
from just across half-court tying the game at 23.</p><p>After ending the first half on a 9-4 run the Monarchs opened
the second half on a 7-0 run to go up 30-23.</p><p>TMP was able to build an 11-point third quarter before Ellis
pulled within six at the end of three at 39-33.</p><p>In the fourth quarter TMP led by 10 twice on their way to
the 58-52 win.</p><p><b>Coach Rose McFarland</b></p><div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/971316685&color=%23013c7b&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509" title="Eagle Radio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Eagle Radio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509/01-23-21-tmp-girls-coach-int" title="01 - 23 - 21 TMP coach Rose McFarland" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">01 - 23 - 21 TMP coach Rose McFarland</a></div></div><p>Kyleigh Allen finished with a team-high 13 points and Jaci
VonLintel added 12 and Megan Hamel finished with 10 points.</p><p>Hannah Schiel scored a career-high 11 points for Ellis.</p><p><b>Game highlights</b></p><div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/971316601&color=%23013c7b&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509" title="Eagle Radio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Eagle Radio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509/01-23-21-tmp-girls-highlights" title="01 - 23 - 21 TMP girls Highlights vs Ellis" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">01 - 23 - 21 TMP girls Highlights vs Ellis</a></div></div><p>TMP improves to 9-2 with the win while Ellis drops to 7-4.</p>

🏀TMP boys finish 3rd; Monarch girls 5th at MCL tournament