Cougars had clawed they're way back to .500 with they're win over Enka played the first conference game of the season vs hendersonville . Hendersonville Defeated the cougars all 3 meetings the year prior . Cougars played they're best game of the season the first 3 quarter's with good ball movement inside taking advantage of they're size inside . Both Will Buckner and Austin Taylor had 7pts 6rebounds each. Cougars 30 REBOUNDS helped the Mountain Heritage hold a 9 pt lead into the 4th. Team also had 11 steals led by grant Buckner with 4.
Avery Austin had 11pts hit a big three with 4 Min's left. But Cougars had no answer for Hendersonville's Rishad Felton who totaled 37 Pt's in regulation. Felton sawed down the lead and tied the ball game with a big 3 sending the game into overtime. Coach Featherstone for hendersonville decided to hold the ball and take a final shot in the extra time. Hendersonville missed two chances inside giving the ball back to the cougars. Grant Buckner broke the press and was fouled and hit both foul shots cougars went up 58-56 with 9 seconds left.
Felton was going to take the final shot and the cougars knew it . Senior Lucas king had a hand in his face when felton threw up an NBA rainbow that went in as time expired.Winning 59-58 Felton finished with 13 3's on the night and 40 Pt's. Cougars lose a heart breaker to open conference play. Cougars shot 50% from the field 18-36 and 16-22 from the line in the loss.
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