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Man's best friend runs onto court, stops play during Missouri high school girls district basketball game

High school girls game briefly delayed after unleashed onlooker wanders onto court

Levi Payton

East Atchison and Maysville girls had a surprise guest show up onto the court in the middle of their Class 2, District 16 Tournament game on Tuesday.
East Atchison and Maysville girls had a surprise guest show up onto the court in the middle of their Class 2, District 16 Tournament game on Tuesday. / Maysville High School from Facebook

They say there’s a first for everything. For East Atchison girls basketball head coach Devin Albertson, and perhaps most of the crowd at Maysville High School, what they witnessed during Tuesday night’s first round Class 2, District 16 Tournament game between the respective Lady Wolves and Lady Wolverines seemed straight out of a furrytail.

As players attempted to fetch a rebound, an overly eager man’s best friend, in a totally unleashed moment, ran onto the court and, uh, brought the game to a paws.

That’s a bad move, good boy.

Sans an Air Bud moment and only a few varsity seconds logged in the game, the stray fan was still the highlight of the night.

And East Atchison, a Tarkio and Fairfax co-op, went on to get the last wag, beating Maysville 47-27.

The Lady Wolves improved to 14-12 with the win. Maysville dropped to 6-19.

East Atchison was hot from long range, sinking eight 3-pointers in the game. Lizzie Schlueter had defenders chasing their tail all evening, as she led all scorers with 21 points.

Lady Wolves teammates Grace Caudill added nine points, Grace Oswald eight, Rainy Nordhausen six and Zoe Madron three.

And everyone on hand got to witness a moment they won’t soon fur-get.    

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Levi Payton
LEVI PAYTON

Levi’s sports journalism career began in 2005. A Missouri native, he’s won multiple Press Association awards for feature writing and has served as a writer and editor covering high school sports as well as working beats in professional baseball, NCAA football, basketball, baseball and soccer. If you have a good story, he’d love to tell it.

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