Stauffer-less Ryle gets by Simon Kenton

By Terry Boehmker

INDEPENDENCE, Ky. - When your leading scorer and rebounder goes home sick a few hours before a game, it tends to have an adverse effect on a boys’ high school basketball team.

Not so for the Ryle Raiders. They defeated Simon Kenton, 58-48, on Friday without 6-foot-7 senior center Bobby Stauffer, who left school earlier that day with a high fever.

Stauffer averages 19.4 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. But the Raiders managed to win without him by shooting 58.8 percent (20 of 34) from the field compared to Simon Kenton’s 33 percent (16 of 48).

“Most of what we do offensively goes through Bobby’s hands and my one fear was how we were going to react offensively (without him),” said Ryle coach Alan Mullins. “But I knew we’d be OK defensively because we’ve been focusing on that end of the floor for the past couple weeks.”

Ryle’s leading scorers were senior guard Zack Perkins with 15 points and junior guard Tate Mullins, the coach’s son, with 14. Senior guard A.C. Stinson had 11 points and six rebounds. Senior forward Todd Vollet contributed six points, six steals and five rebounds.

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