The Greenacres Mustangs and Rusheon Rams swept their opponents in middle school boys basketball district action Thursday.
Greenacres defeated Elm Grove 46-42 in the seventh-grade game and 34-22 in the eighth-grade game.
Rusheon downed Benton 50-16 in the seventh-grade game and 46-30 in the eighth-grade.
The Haughton Bucs and Cope Cougars split games. Cope won the seventh-grade game 41-24, and Haughton won the eighth-grade game 34-32.
At Elm Grove, Kendall Brown paced the Greenacres seventh-grade team (1-1) with 16 points. David Maxie added 12 points and Coby McGee had 10.
Ty Hubbard topped Elm Grove (0-2) with 16 points, and Sheldon Dudley added 10.
Noah Hildebrand scored 13 points as the Greenacres eighth-grade team improved to 2-0. Anthony Mulrenin and Chris Davenport combined for 13 points.
Malcolm Banks led Elm Grove (0-2) with 17 points.
At Benton, the Rusheon seventh- and eighth-grade teams improved to 2-0.
Isaiah Wallace and Keyshawn Jones scored eight points apiece to lead the seventh-grade Rams. Jones also had six rebounds.
Landric Watson had six points and nine rebounds.
Keldrick Carper paced the Rusheon eighth-graders with 17 points. Kevin Bonapart added nine and Keimun Daniels had eight.
At Haughton, Quillin Dixon scored 12 points to lead the Cope seventh-graders (2-0). Trenton Ivy and Jontravious Jenkins combined for 16 points, and Cameron Davis had nine rebounds.
Malcolm Hall led Haughton (0-2) with 12 points.
Charles Harper led the Haughton eighth-graders with 13 points. Colton McClain, T. Winnfield and Josh Lister combined for 19.
Harper had a key 3-pointer that gave the Bucs the lead in the fourth quarter, and McClain hit two clutch free throws.
KJ Bilbo led Cope (1-1) with 15 points and 18 rebounds.
In a seventh-grade game Monday, Benton downed Greenacres 40-30.
TJ Anderson tossed in 15 points to lead Benton, and Jalen Coleman added 11. Brown led the Mustangs with 19 points.
