Jett setting a career-high

With a couple of minutes gone in the boys’ game Tuesday night, thoughts of an upset were possibly seeping through the crowd at the Eagle Event Center.

Hennessey had jumped on visiting Okarche 12-3 in the early goings and momentarily had Class A’s two-time defending state champs stunned.

Headlines were made by the end of the night, but they didn’t go the Eagles’ way.

Okarche - namely Jett Mueggenborg - turned things around in a big way and eventually cruised to a 99-41 victory in the Three Rivers Conference showdown.

Mueggenborg led the charge as he caught fire for a career-high 51 points.

“He just got blistering hot,” said coach Aaron West in an understatement.

Mueggenborg was blistering by the end of the first quarter.

He scored 29 points in the frame as the Warriors recovered to take a 34-18 lead.

Thatincludedsix3-pointers in just the first quarter.

He hardly slowed down in the second.

Mueggenborg tacked on 16 more points in the frame and finished the half with 45.

He played about midway through the third quarter and scored six more in that span.

All told, Mueggenborg was 20 of 29 from the floor.

That included making 12 of 13 shots inside the 3-point line and 8 of 16 from beyond it. He was 3 of 6 on free throws.

Mueggenborg chipped in 8 rebounds and 4 assists.

Okarche rebounded from its slow start to lead 71-30 at the half.

Ethan Kirby was also hot from long range.

He made three in that second-quarter burst and was 4 of 7 for the game.

He scored 12 points. The Warriors also got 8 points and 5 assists from Easton Roby.

Hennessey was led by Hagen Copeland, who scored 11.

The Eagles struggled against Okarche’s pressure and eventually turned it over 31 times.

That led to 50 Warrior points.

Okarche improved to 16-3 while Hennessey dropped to 6-7 with the loss.

Lady Warriors get revenge The Okarche girls took a break from the West Central Tournament to exact some revenge.

The Lady Warriors knocked off Hennessey 44-34 Tuesday night in a Three Rivers Conference road game.

The win came one day after they opened play in the tournament in Weatherford and beat Sentinel 63-24.

Their semifinal for that tournament was set for Friday night.

Inthemeantime,Okarche was able to avenge a loss to the Lady Eagles in the semifinals of the conference tournament on Jan. 9.

Hennessey won that game 37-31 by shutting down the Lady Warriors in the first and fourth quarters.

This time around, Okarche jumped on the Lady Eagles 16-7 in the first quarter.

Hennessey was playing catch-up the rest of the night and never managed it.

Emma Copeland scored 14 for the Lady Eagles, but was the lone player in white and blue to reach double figures.

Clare Munroe added 9 points and 6 rebounds.

Okarche only had one in double figures as well, but Katie Parham went off for 24 points.

She was 3 of 4 from 3-point range and added 10 rebounds.

Callie Cramer chipped in 6 points and 6 boards.

Okarche moved to 14-3 on the season while Hennessey dropped to 10-3.