By: Chad Hayworth, Ozark Sports Zone
Sometimes, the glass slipper ends up a half-size too small.
No. 1 seed Nixa, ranked No. 7 in Class6, overcame a 10-point first-half deficit to defeat No. 2 Hartville, ranked No. 1 in Class 2, 57-50 in the gold bracket championship of the 80th Annual Blue and Gold Tournament on Tuesday at Great Southern Bank Arena.
"Honestly, we had a pretty slow start, and I just kept telling our guys to just kind of stay with it and see if we could get to halftime not being down double-digits," said Nixa Coach Brock Blansit. "They are just so hard to defend, we just couldn't guard them straight-up. We had to go to a zone, which we don't play zone very often, but I thought for us it was the difference in the game, even through they still ended up making 12 threes."
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