Williams drops thirty, Cougars pick up historic win

The Barton Community College men's basketball team exploded for fifty-six first half points enroute to a 100-78 victory Friday night over Allen Community College in the Coffeyville Classic.  The win improves the Cougars to 4-0 on the early season and gives Head Coach Craig Fletchall a historic 189th win at the helm, surpassing Dan McGovern's career mark at Barton.  Allen meanwhile takes its first loss of the season and drops to 2-1.  Barton will play the host and No. 15 ranked Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens at 7:00 p.m. Saturday.

Freshman Isaac Williams scored twenty-four of his thirty points in the first half to lead five Cougars in double-digit scoring.  Darius Gibson scored sixteen with point guard Tyler Corley scoring fourteen and dishing out a team high six assists.  Despite only playing sixteen minutes due to foul trouble, Raheem Johnson scored twelve points and led the Cougars with seven rebounds.  Trey Unrau came off the bench to score ten on 4-of-8 shooting from the floor.

Tyrone Jones and Courtney Stockard led Allen with thirteen points each with Ben Uno scoring eleven.  Raheem Tyner led in rebounding with nine while also reaching double-digit scoring with ten.

Photo:  Barton's Isaac Williams rises to drain one of his 5-of-5 shots from behind the arc in first half action Friday.  Williams went on to score 30 points on the night.  Game played 11-08-13 at the Coffeyville Classic  in Coffeyville, KS.