Cold-shooting H-D drops fifth straight

HAMPTON – While shooting only 30 percent from the field and even worse from beyond the three-point line, Hampton-Dumont’s boys’ basketball team found itself in an early hole it couldn’t get out of against 14-2, 9-1 (NCC) Algona in a 70-47 loss.
It was the fifth straight defeat for H-D despite another double-double for senior Coleton Barz with 15 points, 12 rebounds and 11 more points off of the bench for Logan Gooder.
“I thought in the first half all of the shots that Algona made from the three-point line in the corner were the same shots we were taking from the three-point line in the corner, they just made them and we didn’t make them,” H-D coach Heath Walton said....
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