Boys’ Prep Basketball: Mount Pleasant Cruises Needs OT for Regina; Other Prep Finals

Mount Pleasant 55, Regina 43 (OT) 

Mount Pleasant needed overtime to do it, but won their fourth straight 55-43 over Iowa City Regina last night.

Four Panthers scored in double figures, with Payton Hagans leading the way with 15 points.

Dewon Trent finished with 14 points and six rebounds. Owen Vansickel had 12 while Aidan Ashton had 10.

Mount Pleasant is now 8-9 on the season, meanwhile Iowa City Regina fell to 5-14.

The Regals were led by Landon Pietrzak’s game-high 19 points — he canned three triples.

New London 88, Central Lee 45 

New London stayed hot with an easy 88-45 win over Central Lee yesterday.

The Tigers jumped out to a 34-7 lead at the end of the first quarter and never looked back, extending their leads to 37 at halftime.

Devon Swanson had 17 points to lead the Tigers. Blaise Porter finished with 16 points while Kooper Schulte continued his nice run of play with 13.

New London upped their ledger to 15-1, they’re now 13-1 in Super Conference play.

Winfield-Mount Union 60, Louisa-Muscatine 34 

Cam Buffington had 22 points and eight rebounds while Abram Edwards added 10 points as Winfield-Mount Union put it in automatic in a 60-34 win over Louisa-Muscatine.

Andrew Brown chipped in with eight points for the Wolves, who used a 24-9 third quarter run to pull away.

The win moved Winfield-Mount Union to 17-1 on the season.

Xander Bieri had 16 for the Falcons, who are now 2-15.

Danville 39, WACO 37 (OT) 

Danville scored the lone basket in overtime, holding on to a 39-37 thriller over WACO yesterday.

Drake Johnson had 11 points to lead the Bears while Caiden Gourley had 10.

Colten Leichty led the Warriors with eight points.

Danville improved to 16-2 overall and 12-2 in Super Conference play.

WACO is now 14-4.

Other prep finals:

  • Holy Trinity 54, Notre Dame 51
  • Cardinal 72, West Burlington 54
  • Hillcrest Academy 69, Highland 49
  • Columbus 75, Lone Tree 56
  • Mediapolis 44, Wapello 35