Sports Roundup for Dec. 17, 2015

An emotional celebration followed the Walker High boys’ 46-45 victory over rival Denham Springs on Saturday night in the championship game of the Blount General Contractors Livingston Parish tournament.

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Were the Wildcats so excited because they had won the annual parish tournament for only the fourth time in 30 years?

Or because they had overcome a six-point deficit in the final 45 seconds to score the nail-biting win?

“Both,” coach Anthony Schiro said. “Those guys are excited for both reasons.”

Walker trailed Denham by 12 points after the first quarter and by nine at halftime, but steadily chipped away until Darius Hampton’s game-winning lay-up, with two seconds left, provided the Wildcats their first lead since the opening three minutes.

With that, five days of basketball at Live Oak High saw the parish’s nine participating schools combine to play 24 games.

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The other big winners Saturday were the Denham Springs girls, who handled Holden 46-36 in the tournament’s first championship game.

Coach Shelly LaPrarie, of Denham Springs, took home her seventh parish title since 2004 after the Yellow Jackets were ousted in the first round of the tournament last year.

WALKER BOYS 46, DENHAM SPRINGS 45: Denham Springs guard Mitch Wilkerson scored 15 points on five 3-pointers as the Yellow Jackets controlled the first half but was held scoreless in the second half as Walker made its run.

As a team, Denham managed only one point (on a free throw) in the third quarter as Walker crept within 33-31 going into the fourth.

But the Yellow Jackets still had a 45-39 lead...