Lions headed back to state

In shades of his all-state older brother Justin Purintun, junior guard Tanner Purintun stepped up and connected the dagger that the Linton-HMB Lions were looking for all evening inside the Jamestown Civic Center on Thursday night. Clinging to a 32-25 lead with just over three-and ahalf minutes remaining in the championship game of the Region 3 tournament against the LaMoure Loboes, Purintun fired up a shot from the left wing and drilled the Lions’ only threepointer of the entire contest to hand Linton-HMB a 10- piont cushion they’d never relinquish.

By: Michael Savaloja, The Jamestown Sun