Talk about going out in style! The boys basketball team at Quitman High closed out their 2024 portion of the schedule by beating Summerfield and Cedar Creek on back-to-back nights this Thursday and Friday. By virtue of the victories, the Wolverines stayed perfect in all nine games played in the month of December to stretch their current winning streak to 14 games and close out the year with a stellar 15-2 record. 

Quitman 66 Summerfield 28 (Thursday) The Wolverines got downright defensive as they held Summerfield to single digits in all four quarters to set a new season standard for fewest points allowed in a game. It was over early by all accounts as QHS jumped out to a 18-7 first quarter lead that grew to a 46-18 advantage at the half after the Wolverines exploded for 28 second quarter points. A season high twelve players in all scored for Quitman led by 15 points from Brayden Martin and 10 by Noah Leach. Taden Thomas and Gavyn Caskey added 7 and 6 points respectively followed by Payton Nomey scoring a season best five points on the strength of his first ever varsity three pointer. Shane Reed also finished with five and Brayden Smith, Larsen Thomas and Case Sims all totaled three points each. Abel Leach and Asher Shultz tallied two points apiece to round out the  scoring. 

Quitman 71 Cedar Creek 40 (Friday) Once again Quitman took a big second quarter advantage, this time outscoring home-standing Cedar Creek 19-4 to pave the way to the win. Four Wolverines reached “double-digits” in scoring with both Brayden’s (Martin and Smith) pacing the QHS scoring attack with 22 and 17 points. Taden Thomas also came up big by scoring 15 points to set a new season high scoring standard and Noah Leach chipped in with 11 points. Abel Leach, Amaurion Thompson and and Gavyn Caskey added two points each. 

Lady Wolverines win 10th of year

Quitman became the first Jackson Parish school to have both the girls and boys teams reach double figures in victories by beating Summerfield 49-31 on Thursday in their first home game since December 3rd. A chance to stretch a season high winning streak to three straight fell by the wayside though as Cedar Creek withstood a late rally to drop QHS by a 46-42 margin the next night to end the Lady Wolverines 2024 part of the schedule with a 10-8 record. 

Quitman 49 Summerfield 31 (Thursday) Trailing by one at 17-16 at the break, Quitman took control of the game by pummeling Summerfield 32-15 in the second half. Anna Leach led the scoring attack with 17 points followed by a season best 11 from Jaliegh Burns. Cali Deal also reached double figures in scoring with 10 while Emma Walker had four and Taylor Borland, Hallie Kate Pullig and Brooklyn Brown all tallied two each. Kinsley Ponder added a free throw. 

Cedar Creek 46 Quitman 42 (Friday) The Lady Wolverines clawed back from an 11 point deficit to draw within one at 42-41 but Cedar Creek made their free throws down the stretch to hold on for the victory. Quitman held a 27-26 advantage at the half but one point scored in the third quarter proved to be fatal to the effort. Cali Deal led the Lady Wolverines scoring attack with 18 points followed by Anna Leach adding 13. Hallie Kate Pullig chipped in with four points, Jaleigh Burns finished with three and both Emma Walker and Taylor Borland ended with two points each.