Frank's Shootout: WCHS Warriors victorious over Gallatin 59-48

On Dec. 20, 2025, White County High School boys' basketball team went into round two of Frank's Christmas Shootout, which was being hosted at Roy Sewell gymnasium, where they played Liberty Creek Wolves from Gallatin.

The Warriors took their second win of this tournament over the Wolves 59-48 sending them into the championship game, on Dec. 22.

In the first quarter, the Warriors took an 11-point lead over the wolves with Tucker Pinion scoring 7 points followed by Cole Sims and Jack Carpenter who both had 6 points each.

The Wolves were only able to put up 8 points with Riley Clifton having 4 points followed by Cole Hillis having 2 points, and Wyatt Graves and Keller Haack each having 1.

The Warriors continued this stretch of taking the lead in the second quarter where they led with the score being 36-22.

Cole Sims led the team this quarter putting up 7 points, with Tucker Pinion following closely behind with 5 points. Following these two was Jack Carpenter with 3 points and Lukas Smith with 2.

The Wolves were able to put up 14 more points with Rett Hogg having 4, Tre Foster and Cole Hillis each having 3 points, followed by Riley Clifton and Malachai Lowe having 2 points apiece.

This left the Wolves in a 14-point deficit, which teams don’t tend to come back from, going into halftime.

Going into the third quarter, White County struggled to move the ball as much on offense, only having 13 points with Cole Sims scoring 10 of the 13 and Tucker Pinion scoring the other 3.

On the other hand, Liberty Creek found the hoop a little more this quarter having 15 points. Rett Hogg scored 6 of the 15 followed by Cole Hillis having 3, and Riley Clifton, Tre Foster, and Malachai Lowe all scoring 2 apiece.

This left the score going into the final quarter being 49-37, the Wolves trailing behind by 12 points.

The Warriors went into the fourth quarter with Cole Sims scoring 7 points. Following Sims' scoring was Lukas Smith who put up 3 points off of foul shots allowing the Warriors to score 10 points in this final quarter.

The Wolves continued to try and find the basket to come back, being unable to do so, only scoring 11 in this final quarter with Malachai Lowe scoring , Rett Hogg scoring 4, and Riley Clifton scoring 2.

This left the game with a final score of 59-48. This sent the Warriors into the Championship game where the Warriors faced Cannon County who was currently undefeated in the 25/26 season.

Cole Sims, who received player of the game, scored 30 points this game. Sims was asked what his mindset was going into this game allowing him to have such a good performance.

“Going into today's game, we knew they were a big physical team so we knew we had to crash the boards and play hard to let our defense translate to offense and score," Sims said.

Going into this championship game, head coach Eric Mitchell gave his opinions going into it where he said, “We’re very proud of these guys for getting there. We’ve won several in a row. I think we’ve won 10 games, and I think we only won 12 last year so they’re playing really well, but we face a tough opponent Monday in the championship. Cannon County is really good.”