MyEsha Moore scored her career best sixteenth point with under a minute left and Tia Troup sank a pair of free throws in the final seconds to help the Lady Royals secure a 58-53 home win against Putnam County Tuesday.  Dewanda Backshear scored 15 points including a pair of three point shots.

Despite a career best 22 points from D'Andre Pitts the Royals fell to 0-3 on the season with a 62-50 loss to Putnam County.  It was the retrn of fomer Royals coach Clifford Kerbo who resigned last spring and took the Putnam job to be closer to home.

BCHS plays at Crawford County Frida.  Tip time is 7 p.m.

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Both the Lady Royals and Royals basketball team had cold shooting streaks as they dropped a pair of games in Eastman to Dodge County.  The Lady Royals never led after going the final four minutes of the second quarter without a basket.  A ten-point halftime deficit was as much as 21 in the second half as BC lost 61-43.  Tia Troup scored 19.

After cutting a six-point deficit to two in the third, the Royals went the final three minutes without a basket.  Down nine to begin the fourth, they would get within six on Tavon Ross's second lob dunk but couldn't complete the comeback and lost 51-44.  D'Andre Pitts had 14.

Region play begins at hom Tuesday versus Putnam County.  Tip time is 6 p.m.  It will mark the return of former Royals head coach Clifford Kerbo, now coaching the Putnam boys.