November 12- Claiborne High School hosted their annual basketball jamboree featuring Grainger, Cumberland Gap, and Washburn. The first game featured Cumberland Gap versus Grainger in varsity competition. Grainger won 35-19. The second game featured the same teams but in junior varsity play. Cumberland Gap won 7-6. The hosting Claiborne then played Washburn in varsity girls’ action and fell 20-18. The Lady Bulldogs JV team then played Grainger and fell 6-1. The competitions were next, and Bulldog Cole Holt won in the boys’ three-point shooting, Grainger’s Addison Hayes won in the girls three-point shooting and Bulldog Drew Epperson defended his title in the slam dunk competition.
Cumberland Gap battled Grainger in a varsity boy’s game and the Panthers won 28-25 and then won the JV game 13-11. Claiborne battled Washburn in varsity action and fell by three, 29-26. The two junior varsity teams played the final game of the night and Claiborne slid by the Pirates winning 6-3. The JV games were 10-minutes long and the varsity games were two, eight-minute quarters.
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