By JIM WALKER

jim.walker@irontontribune.com

PORTSMOUTH — Whenever the Fairland Dragons and Eastern Brown Warriors face each other, it’s a close game.

Saturday the two teams met in the Battle of 740 at Shawnee State University and, yep, it was close again.

Fairland outscored Eastern by a basket in the fourth quarter and got away with a 46-44 win.

Eastern went up 13-8 in the first quarter as Drew Edmisten hit a 3-pointer and scored 6 points.

Trevor Lochow hit a 3-pointer and Gaby Polcyn scored 3 points for Fairland.

The Dragons came back in the second quarter to tie the game at 24-all heading into the break.

Brody Buchanan hit a 3-pointer as he scored 9 points, Polcyn added 4 points and Trevor Lochow hit a trey for the Dragons.

Grady Barber had 6 points and Kade Walkup a 3-pointer for the Warriors.

Each team scored 10 points in the third quarter to make it 34-34.

Maddox Gue and Cliff Fransen had 3-pointers for Fairland.

Barber scored 4 points and the Warriors were 4-of-6 at the foul line.

Keegan Smith had all 5 of his points and Polcyn added 3 points with Buchanan hitting a pair of foul shots.

Chase Pinkerton and Carter Cluxton had 4 points each for Eastern.

Buchanan led Fairland (4-0) with 17 points and Polcyn scored 10. Buchanan also had 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Polcyn had 4 rebounds with Smith getting 3 assists.

Barber had 13 points and 5 rebounds to pace Eastern (2-2).

Eastern 13 11 10 10 = 44

Fairland 8 16 10 12 = 46

EASTERN BROWN (2-2): Kade Walkup 1-2 2-4 0-0 8, Kayne Dotson 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Chase Pinkerton 3-4 0-1 2-2 8, Drew Edmisten 1-1 1-3 1-1 6, Carter Cluxton 1-3 0-0 2-2 4, Landen Koehler 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Braxton Vance 0-2 0-0 2-2 2, Pryce Murphy 1-2 0-0 1-2 3, Grady Barber 4-10 0-2 5-8 13. Totals: 14-31 13-17 44. 3-pt goals: 3-10. Rebounds: 23 (Barber 5, Murphy 5). Assists: 2. Steals: 1. Fouls: 13. Fouled out: None.

FAIRLAND (4-0): Gabe Polcyn 4-6 0-0 2-3 10, Trevor Lochow 1-2 1-1 0-0 5, Jeremiah Fizer 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Cliff Fransen 0-0 2-9 0-2 6, Keegan Smith 2-4 0-0 1-1 5, Maddox Gue 0-0 1-2 0-0 3, Brody Buchanan 5-11 1-4 4-5 17. Totals: 17-39 7-11 46. 3-pt goals: 5-16. Rebounds: l4 (Polcyn 4, Buchanan 4). Assists: 10 (Lochow 4, Buchanan 3, Smith 3). Steals: 3. Fouls: 16. Fouled out: None.