It was “Pink Out” night at Quitman High but at the end Weston was seeing red as the homestanding Wolverines won both the pivotal district 1B girls and boys games. The QHS girls opened by taking a 37-21 victory followed by the boys racing to a 73-55 victory in the nightcap. 

In between games QHS Principal Billy Carter recognized the Pullin family in front of the standing room only crowd who were mostly clad in pink in recognition of Cancer Awareness and in honor of former Quitman High School Golf Coach and cancer victim, Ginger Pullin.  

With the victory the Quitman improved to 19-7 overall and 5th in the Division IV power rankings for “non-select” schools and stormed to the top of the district 1B standings with a 2-0 record. That puts the Wolverines one game ahead of Doyline and Castor, who both stand at 1-1 after Castor upset Doyline on Friday and two games ahead of Weston, who fell to 14-11 overall and 0-2 in 1B play. 

The Lady Wolverines also won for the 19th time this season against 8 losses and evened their district 1B record at 1-1, the same as Weston who fell to 14-11 overall with the loss. Both sit one game behind district 1B leader Castor and one game ahead of Doyline. 

Quitman 73 Weston 55 (boys) – Eli Walker made two 3-pointers and Noah Leach, Brayden Smith and Gavyn Caskey all made one each as Quitman stormed to a 19-6 first quarter lead. The Wolverines continued to stay hot from “down town” all game connecting on 12 of 17 from behind the arc for an astounding 71%, 3-point shooting percentage. Producing their best balanced scoring attack of the season five players scored in double figures. Leading the way was Logan Ponder with 15 followed by Caskey with 14, Walker 13 and both Noah Leach and Brayden Smith with ten each. Riley Duck chipped in with 8 points and Larsen Thomas made a three pointer. Tait Henderson topped Weston with 15 points with Tommy Walker adding 9 and Nathan Wages chipping in with 8 points. Bryce Zehr scored 7, Brody Tidwell hit two of the three, 3-pointers Weston made on the night to finish with 6 points, while Jude Otwell had 5 and Daniel Watlington scored two. 

Quitman 37 Weston 21 (girls) – Cali Deal and Anna Leach both scored 12 points and Quitman used a pair of 9-point runs in the second half to take control of the low scoring affair. Both teams struggled from the field, especially in the first half which ended with Quitman holding a 14-13 lead as QHS shot 25 % from the field and Weston faring even worse in their lowest scoring output of the year. Jaleigh Burns hit the only two, 3-pointers of the night for the Lady Wolverines to finish with  6 points while Taylor Borland added five and A.J. Gray tallied two. Lainee Trosclair scored 6 points to lead the Lady Wolves followed by Lexie Millien with 5 points. Carly Jo Griffin scored 4, Anslee Aldy 3, and Nadia Siadek, Carlynn Waters and Raelynn Shell all hit a free throw each.