The Paton-Churdan Rockets played a Class 1A District 15 quarterfinal round boys’ basketball game on Monday night in Manning. The host IKM-Manning Wolves, the three seed, hosted the sixth seeded Rockets, with the home team winning by a final of 77-46. The trailed by just a 36-29 score at halftime. A 22-6 third quarter put the game into overdrive for the Wolves, who improved to 14-8 while the Rockets ended the season at 7-16.

Junior Trevon Keely had 22 points, nearly half of P-C’s total. Donovan Martin added 11 points with seven by Phoenix Hartman. Unofficially, junior Bryce Stephenson and Martin each had five rebounds  IKM-Manning had a pair of players, Ben Ramsey and Brock Kusel, each score 23 points.

Head coach Josh Cerveny told Raccoon Valley Radio, “First, I want to thank my assistant Kyle Wright for stepping into a hard role and filling in for me tonight. He did a great job. I also want to thank the girls’ coach, Tom Kennedy, for helping him. We knew we would have to play 32 minutes hard tonight and react to adversity when it hit. Second half we didn’t come out with the energy we needed to come out with. It’s going to be a big offseason for us. We lose three seniors who had a big impact this season. We need to continue to develop the underclassmen.”