Senior Tory Beger (Bee-ger) was scoreless for the first 35 minutes, 59-1/2 seconds on Tuesday night in Colfax, but he buried a three-point shot from the top of the key to lift the Greene County boys’ basketball team to a 62-60 road win in overtime at Colfax-Mingo on Tuesday night. The victory was the first in three games this season for the Rams while the Tigerhawks fell to 1-3. Beger’s heroics came after Greene County called timeout with 9.7 seconds remaining and the score 60-59 in favor of the Tigerhawks.

Sophomore Landon Braun set a new career scoring high with 26 points including seven goals from three-point range for Greene County and senior Reed Ostrander added 23 points. The Rams fell behind by 18 points in the opening half, but closed the gap to 31-21 at intermission. They out scored Colfax-Mingo 16-3 in the third quarter to go ahead and led 45-37 with 5:22 left in the fourth quarter before the Tigerhawks regained the lead. The Rams tied the score at 53-53 in regulation with 33 seconds.

Following a poor shooting first half, Greene County made 15 of 22 shots following intermission and the Rams made nine three-point goals for the game. In addition to Beger’s game-winning shot, he was credited by head coach Mike McGinnis for limiting C-M senior Conner Hainer to just two points in the second half and overtime. Hainer had 17 points in the first half including five three-pointers. Senior center Vaughn WIlson led the Tigerhawks in scoring with 21 points.

C-M won 34-31 in overtime in the girls’ contest. Both games were broadcast on KGRA 98.9 FM.

Greene County plays a girl/boy doubleheader vs. CMB in Baxter on Friday and both games can be heard on KGRA 98.9 FM with pre-game beginning at 5:45 p.m.