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HMS Mustangs win state title in Murfreesboro

2023 Middle School State Champs, Huntingdon Mustangs.

By russellBUSH

 The Huntingdon Middle School Mustangs basketball team completed one of the best seasons in school history and claimed the second state title for HMS Mustangs Saturday with a 55-26 win over Thurman Francis Middle School in the James C. Haile State Basketball Tournament.

 It took the Mustangs two weeks to complete their improbable run as they started the tournament on Martin Luther King Day with a 44-27 win over Rickman as Kenton Smith scored 19 points in the win and Kylen Turner added 10. The Mustangs then followed that win with a hard fought 29-27 win over Columbia Academy on Saturday, January 21 as Kenton Smith scored 20 points in the win.

 Those two wins set up a championship game with Thurman Francis Middle School of Smyrna on Saturday, January 28. The Mustangs stampeded out of the gate and scored 26 points to TFMS’s 7 and never looked back. Kenton Smith kept up his outstanding performance and scored 13 points in that first quarter and ended the game with 27 points. Over the three-game stretch, Smith scored 66 points over the length of the tournament and earned all-tournament honors, also earning all-tournament honors were Bryson Holladay and Kylen Turner.

 In the championship game Holladay scored 10 points to compliment Smith’s 27, Turner scored 7, Zayden Connelly 7, and Lucas Smith 4.

 The Mustangs completed a 19-3 season and added a state title to their County title in December and it was the second state championship in basketball for the Mustangs with the first coming in 2003. Macon Bullock is the head coach and Taylor McCarty is the assistant coach.

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