The Junction City Blue Jay – Seaman boys basketball game will be remembered for a nutty fourth quarter. 
Seaman got the win at the Shenk Gym 58-46.
But there was controversy at the scorer’s table apparently with the scorebook in the second half. JCHS officials believed there was a six-point swing with three points added to the Seaman total and three taken away from Junction City. The score was 46-39 in favor of Seaman when the Blue Jays scored. Junction City coach Pat Battle remembered that score and the Blue Jays hit a 3-point shot. “And I saw the 49 go up ( for Seaman ). Then they put 41 up ( for Junction City ) and then they hit a three, and it was 52. To make a long story shot….bottom line was is that it was a six-point swing.”
After the game there was also some discussion that it was only a five-point swing since the 3-point shot made by the Blue Jays may have only been a two-point basket at the end of the third quarter.
The problem was realized early in the fourth quarter, and after a long conference at the scorer’s table that’s when three points were removed from the Blue Jay total.
Battle noted his team needed to do a better job throughout the game of defending Seaman. He pointed out that Seaman also shot the ball well, and got way too many second-shot opportunities. But he also stated, “When you cut it to a four, and the next thing you know and you’re looking up it went from a four-point…it’s a four point deficit to a ten point deficit in the early fourth quarter, it totally changes what you do and how you call a game, without a doubt.”
A review of the game video will be the only way to determine specifically what occurred and whether the score was right.
Seaman improved to 6-9 with the victory, while Junction City fell to 4-11. Tanner Lueker led the Blue Jays in the game with 14 points.
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Seaman defeated Junction City in the girls game at the Shenk Gym 48-24. Seaman jumped to a 10-6 first quarter lead and led throughout the game.
Junction City, 3-11, was led in scoring by Kealee Rains with 13 points. Kori Kamm had 11 for Junction City.
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Junction City High School basketball teams will host Washburn Rural Friday night.