McPherson, KS – Reece Warren and Isaiah Rivera help lead the Tigers to a narrow 60-59 victory over the Langston Lions.

Reece Warren led the Tiger scores with 23 points going (8-16 FG, 5-11 3PT), Isaiah Rivera had 11 points on the performance with 8 assist with an impressive 7-7 from the free throw line that would help seal the Tigers victory.

TaMarcus Butler would give the Tigers plenty to handle on the night with an impressive 30 points on 12-19 FG and 2-3 from beyond the arc. Tigers would hold the Lions overall to 21-61 FG (34.4%) and 3-15 (20%) from beyond the arc.

Central Christian (9-4, 3-3 SAC) improves to .500 % in conference play and snaps a 3 game skid. They will take on a tough John Brown team on Friday in the Jerry Alexander Arena.

Central Christian Quotes:
Head Coach Tony Romero
"This was a brutal stretch our guys just went through.  Playing 6 games in 10 days and back to back nights-yesterday in OKC and today back here, is no easy ask for any team. Not a lot of time in there to work on us on the practice floor.  I am proud of our guys, they showed a lot of toughness during this stretch, we lost a couple heart breakers late last week, so to get back in the win column tonight was definitely important."
"Tonight's game was a grind out ugly game, but we made just enough plays to pull it out.  I felt like we had some good possessions on defense, but didn't reward ourselves several of those possessions by securing rebounds, we have to improve there.  Offensively, the last two nights we have just really struggled shooting the basketball, you can tell our legs are tired.  Tonight, we had plenty of open looks, they just didn't go in."
"We are looking forward to this two day gap between games before we get back at it, here on our home floor versus a very good John Brown team."
"Give credit to Langston, their zone slowed the game way down and their kids really competed hard."


Go Tigers!
#Ambush