The Marshalltown Community College men’s basketball team defeated Simpson College JV, 100-50, at the MCC Student Activity Center on Monday night.

Four of MCC’s starting five scored in double digits, led by Mekki Sisk with 19 points, including 17 in the first half. Joe Scott added 15 points for the Tigers (6-12), Tyler Burrows 14, Angus Ole 10 and DJ Hamilton led all bench scorers with 10 points.

MCC led 48-23 at halftime, which included six team 3-pointers.

Thirteen different Tigers scored at least one point on Monday. MCC has now won back-to-back games after a 67-49 win at Cornell College on Saturday.

Trojans push past Colo-NESCO in second half

COLO — The West Marshall boys’ basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak by rallying past Colo-NESCO for a 47-42 win on Monday night.

West Marshall (3-8) trailed by as many as 14 points in the first half and was down 27-21 at the intermission. The Trojans responded by outscoring the Royals 14-7 in the third quarter and 12-8 in the fourth.

Owen Siegert and AJ Dee led West Marshall with 12 points apiece. Cash Johnston added seven points while Preston Reese, Noah DeSotel, Lucas Barnes and Andrew Tollefson chipped in four points each.

Lucas Frohwein led Colo-NESCO (8-5) with 21 points, but only three after halftime.

East Trojans control the glass, beat Bobcats

WATERLOO — An overwhelming rebounding disadvantage, coupled with poor shooting, doomed Marshalltown boys basketball in a 55-42 loss at Waterloo East on Saturday night.

The Bobcats trailed by just three at halftime, 30-27, but a 16-3 East run that spanned the first 10 minutes of the second half clipped MHS, slipping to 6-6 overall and 2-2 in the Iowa Alliance North.

East outrebounded Marshalltown 51-23, including 18 offensive rebounds. The Bobcats also made just 17-of-58 (29.3 percent) from the floor, including 4-of-25 from 3-point range.

“Our execution wasn’t great tonight and obviously we weren’t making open shots so that had a lot to do with it,” MHS head coach Michael Appel said. “They sped us up at times and they were able to capitalize on that and get easy buckets pushing in transition and we had a hard time stopping them.”

Cory Smith led the Bobcats with 13 points and Carter Giannetto added 11 points with five assists. Kyle Smith contributed eight points and grabbed a team-leading seven rebounds.

East’s Da’Shaundis Moore led all scorers with 17 points and added 11 rebounds.

“We did a poor job of keeping guys in front of us tonight,” Appel said. “Maybe it was tired legs from playing [Friday] night, … but they’re an athletic team, we need to do a better job next time we play them of keeping them in front of us and keeping them off the glass. They just willed their ways with us physicality-wise and being more athletic, that had a huge impact on the game tonight.”

Marshalltown heads to Des Moines Roosevelt on Tuesday. The Roughriders won 68-50 on Nov. 28 in the meeting at the Roundhouse.

“The message to the guys was that we have a lot of good things going for us, let’s not let this derail us,” Appel said. “Let’s just continue to improve and continue working hard.”

A-P/GC boys 4th at Belle Plaine

BELLE PLAINE — Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center crowned two individual champions as part of a fourth-place team finish at the Kurt Hinschberger Invitational at Belle Plaine High School on Saturday.

Jesse Brouwer (215 pounds) and Trent Cakerice (285) claimed gold for the Falcons, scoring 152 total team points to finish behind champions Logan-Magnolia with 200 points and Newton and Pleasantville tying for second with 163 points.

Brouwer won his round-robin bracket with three pins and a 7-4 decision over Newton’s Coleby Revell. Cakerice went 3-0 in his round robin with three wins, all by pinfall.

The Falcons had four silver medals with Carter Liston (126 pounds), Gage Miller (132), Klayton Freed (165) and Maison Copp (190). Justin Knaack added a third-place finish at 144 pounds.