Remembering the run II

The 2015-16 basketball season marks the 10-year anniversary of the Jay County High School boys team making a run to the 2006 Class 3A state championship game. This is the second in a series of weekly looks back at that season.

Dec. 10, 2005
For the second time in its first four games, the Patriots faced a double-digit deficit in the first half. And for the second time, they came roaring back.
Jay County pulled even in the second half and then senior Randy Evans hit back-to-back 3-pointers, the second a third-quarter buzzer-beater, to put his team in control. Tyler Rigby paced the Patriots with 16 points in the 51-44 win over the previously unbeaten Starfires. John Retter added nine points, and Evans scored eight.

Dec. 16, 2005
After starting 4-0 for the first time in school history, the JCHS run came to a screeching halt with a 72-48 loss to Class 4A?No. 3 Muncie Central.
The Patriots grabbed a 3-1 lead before giving up 25 consecutive points to the Bearcats, who would go on to play in the Class 4A state championship game. They were never able to get back within single digits.
Rigby shot 7-of-9 and hit four 3-pointers as he totalled 18 points, but no one else reached double figures.

Dec. 20, 2005
Jay County bounced back from its first loss to defeat a top-ranked team for the first time in seven seasons, dominating the second half for a 54-39 win over the Class 2A No. 1 Centerville Bulldogs.
Corey Comer racked up a career-high 21 points for the Patriots, whose defense stifled Centerville down the stretch. The Bulldogs shot just 29 percent in the second half after going 8-of-16 from the field in the first.
Evans followed Comer with 12 points, and Retter had eight points along with team highs of six rebounds, three assists and two blocks.