No. 11 Pearl River nearly doubles Delgado in season opener

POPLARVILLE, Miss. — With head coach Chris Oney calling the shots it appears the high-flying, all-out Wildcat Show will be back for an encore in 2019-20. No. 11 Pearl River blitzed visiting Delgado for a 36-point halftime advantage and cruised to a 98-53 victory in its season opener at Marvin R. White Coliseum.

“It seems like in junior college you’re starting over every year but this is the first year in the last three years that we didn’t have at least one double figure points player coming back so you don’t really know until you see them,” Oney said. “We’ve shown flashes but you never know until you see them in the game. I thought defensively we have a chance to be really good because we have a lot of length.

“All in all I thought defensively we were very good.”

The Dolphins (0-1 overall) may have scored the first basket of the contest, but the game was all Wildcats (1-0) early on.

Pearl River built a 14-10 advantage — punctuated by a smooth 3-pointer from the top of the arc by College of Char