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BLUE DEVIL SHOOT-AROUND

Blue Devil Shoot-around

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WM School District | 1/10/2020

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The games get serious starting tonight.

Conference play starts tonight across Arkansas' top-tier classifications, and with West Memphis playing at Marion, is there a better, more intense, more exciting way to begin it than this?

The bi-annual athletic-budget-bulging series finds the first stop in Marion tonight. There will be a junior varsity boys game that will tip off at 5 p.m., followed by the varsity girls game and the varsity boys game.

I'd get there no later than 5:30 if I were you.

Tonight's boys match-up pits the defending Class 5A state champion Patriots against the Blue Devils, a team that figures to be in the thick of the conversation for state contenders this season.

It will also pit two of the top seniors in Arkansas.

West Memphis' Chris Moore, an Auburn signee, was effectively bottled up last year by the Patriots in two games. With Marion 6-9 senior center Tim Ceasar playing behind him and another defender fronting him, Moore scored 10 points and 6 points in two Blue Devil losses.

Meanwhile, the Patriot will counter this year with senior guard Detric Reeves, a scoring machine from all over the floor.

In five career games against West Memphis, Reeves has scored 22, 19, 29, 20 and 15 points for an average of 21 points per game. The Blue Devils' attention will be focused on him all evening, but the Pats also have a very capable scorer in senior Makyi Boyce, whom the Blue Devils limited last year.

The game also features former Marion Junior High player Jordan Mitchell, who now plays for West Memphis. After struggling to run the offense at the point in the early season, Mitchell has been a force for the Blue Devils (10-3) the last several games.

Marion comes into the game with a paltry 4-8 record that included a brutal non-conference schedule that saw the Patriots play in a couple of highly competitive national tournaments, including one in Las Vegas.

On the girls side, the Lady Devils appear to be rolling along at a blistering pace, despite losing in the championship game of the Harrison Invitational. Guards Aryah Hazley and Janiya Tucker have been meshing well all season.

Patriot Arena will be rocking tonight. Go Blue Devils!!
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