Steven Holloway “The MSE 52 State Diary” Missouri

My name is Steven Holloway. The year started for us all playing for the St Louis North County Cougars.

Our first tournament was 3 weeks ago at Oakville High School ( Missouri 5A State Basketball runner up in 2010).

Our First game of the year was against the St Louis Pythons. We beat the Pythons 73-9.

I had 20 points and Jayson Tatum (#14 7th Grade MSE) had 18. The second we played the Columbia Orangemen.

My friend Tyler who I met at the  University of Kansas Camp is on that team.

I hit a 3pt with 20 seconds to tie the game then tip the ball from Tyler and Derrick Henderson tipped to me for a layup and we won 31-29.

The Championship game we played the St Louis Heat and their 6-2 center and Jayson who is 6-0 was hurt and did not play. We won in a close game 31-29.

We had a 8 point lead with a 1:30 left but played bad down the stretch, I had 15 points against the Heat and 11 against the Orangemen.