{"id":8920,"date":"2023-01-11T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2023-01-11T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:40:02","slug":"tiger-tandem-topples-texas-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/tiger-tandem-topples-texas-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Tandem Topples Texas High"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The senior guard duo of Kelcey Morris and Payton Chism put on a clinic at Texas High on Friday night as the Tigers extended their season-long win streak to 22 games with a 77-52 drubbing of the rival Tigers. Morris and Chism combined for 47 of the Tigers&#8217; 77 points with Morris pouring in 23 points and Chism notching 24 points. The win moved the Tigers to 3-0 in District 15-5A sitting atop the league tied with Tyler.<\/h3>\n<h3>Mount Pleasant jumped ahead early as they&#8217;ve done all season using an 11-2 run to start the game. The Tigers would push the lead further and close out the first frame with a 21-9 advantage. That advantage would only increase as Mount Pleasant made another run of 17-5 to most assuredly put the game away in the first half and lead 44-16 at the half. Texas High would outscore the Tigers 23-19 in the third, but the hole was already too deep for them to climb out of as Mount Pleasant cruised the rest of the way.<\/h3>\n<h3>Morris was relentless in his attack of the basket shooting 9 of 13 from the field and 4 of 6 from the charity stripe including 2 rebounds and 3 assists. Chism rebounded from one of his worst career outings last game going 4 of 8 from behind the arc and 9 of 14 overall with 5 assists and 5 steals. Kai Price also scored in double figures with 10 points and notched 7 rebounds, 3 steals, and 2 blocks. Reggie Webster was a perfect 6 for 6 from the free throw line for 8 total points. Carter Chism chipped in 6 points and a game-high 6 assists and Kyler Smith added 4 points. Luke Hampton had 2 points to round out the scoring.<\/h3>\n<h3>Mount Pleasant has boosted its rankings across the state with TABC putting the Tigers at #10. MaxPreps has Mount Pleasant at #5 in Class 5A and #17 across all classifications in Texas while GASO has the Tigers ranked #9. Needless to say, the Tigers are making waves across the state as they continue their push for another district title.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Tigers (22-0, 3-0) will travel to Pine Tree (9-9, 1-2) on Tuesday, January 13 to faceoff with the Pirates at 7:00 PM. The freshmen and JV will both play earlier with their tip scheduled for 5:00 and 5:30 respectively. Mount Pleasant&#8217;s next home game will be against Longview Friday, January 17.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior guard duo of Kelcey Morris and Payton Chism put on a clinic at Texas High on Friday night as the Tigers extended their season-long win streak to 22 games with a 77-52 drubbing of the rival Tigers. Morris and Chism combined for 47 of the Tigers&#8217; 77 points with Morris pouring in 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}