Broncbusters' four-game winning streak snapped

Great Bend, KS-The final score was not indicative of how close this game really was. 

But in the end, the Broncbusters let go of the rope, and Barton finished strong down the stretch. 

Keandre Kindell finished with 31 points, Brent Moss had 25, and the Cougars closed the game on a 19-6 run to beat Garden City, 98-85 Saturday afternoon at Barton Gym.  

Antonio Chol paced four Broncbusters in double figures with 20 points on 7-of 14 shooting. Emmanuel Manyuon drilled four triples, and Dasean Lewis chipped in 10 points off the bench. 

This was a high-level game from the jump. But all that will be remembered is the final four minutes.  

After Chol rattled home a contested jumper to tie the game at 79, the Cougars hit Isaiah Tisdale's team with an avalanche. Eltramon Smith, Jr. knocked down a 3, Kindell stole the ball from Chol before throwing it down in transition, Brent Moss added a runout dunk after stripping Manyuon, and Smith, Jr. nailed another 3 to give Barton a 91-81 advantage with 2:21 remaining. Moss added a pair of free throws; then went coast-to-coast for a right-handed jam following a long 3-point miss by Manyuon, and just like that, Garden City was down 17 with less than a minute to go.  

For most of the afternoon though, the Broncbusters looked like the better team. They were up 27-17 after Manyuon drained a deep 3-pointer with 7:41 remaining in the first half. But too many times, they let their foot off the gas. Barton answered with a 12-2 run to tie the game at 29. They were down two at the half. 

Josiah Sabino scored 17 points for Garden City (11-9, 6-8), which saw its season-long four-game winning streak snapped. Manyuon had 18 points and three assists, and Caleb Smith, who was back in the starting lineup, had 12 on 5-of-10 shooting in 31 minutes.  

Smith, Jr. and James Parlow, Jr. each scored 13 points off the bench for Barton, which won its third straight game to improve to 16-4 overall and 10-4 in league play.