Korbyn Tune scored 12 points in the Houston eighth-grade boys’ basketball team’s 59-30 loss Tuesday at Ava.

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Cooper Mills added eight points for the Tigers, who are now 3-5 and 2-3 in the South Central Association.

SEVENTH GRADE: Colton Stewart hit a pair of 3-pointers and scored eight points in the Tigers’ 41-24 defeat Tuesday at Ava.

Anthony Carroll had seven points for the Tigers (2-6, 2-5 SCA).

BOX SCORES

EIGHTH GRADE

Ava 59, Houston 30

HOUSTON (30) – Korbyn Tune 12. Cooper Mills 8. Case Jones 4. Hunter McKinney 3. Cayden Woodard 2. Xavier Fowler 2. Matthew Pursiful 1.

SEVENTH GRADE

Houston 10 5 3 6 – 24

Ava 9 8 9 15 – 41

HOUSTON (24) – Colton Stewart 8. Evan Corman 5. Garyn Hall 2. Tre Bolden 2. Anthony Carroll 7. FG 9. FT 4-8. (3-pointers: Stewart 2).

UPCOMING GAMES

• Thursday vs. Thayer, 5:30 p.m.
• Monday vs. St. James, 5:30 p.m.
• Tuesday at Licking, 5:30 p.m.