Macon had four players in double figures to beat Chillicothe 71-62 in the Hornets home gym. Macon hit a trey to start the game and never trailed. Chillicothe tied the game twice in the first quarter but gave up back to back buckets at the end of the quarter.
     The Macon's Cody Tate hit a trey to start the second quarter and give his team a 10 point lead from which Chillicothe could not recover. Four different Macon players hit a total of nine treys in the game. Chillicothe whittled a 14 point 2nd quarter defecit down to just three points at the end of the third, but an eight-point run by Macon was too much to overcome for the Hornets.
     Macon's 6'7" Robert Freeman sat much of the first three quarter in foul trouble and just three points, but came alive in the 4th to hit 9 points. Macon also hit 8 of 14 free throws in the final quarter.
     The Hornet's senior go-to guard Bryce Young lit up Macon for 31 points, putting him over the 1,000 career point mark. Young, also an all-state football player, is just the 7th player in Hornets Basketball history to break the 1,000 point mark in a career. Young has 81 points in his first three games of the season.  <More on Bryce Young's Milestone>