COALMONT — The Community Vikings erased a six-point deficit with a 10-0 second-quarter run and led the rest of the way as the Vikings defeated the Grundy County Yellow Jackets 52-40 in a District 7-AA basketball game Friday night.
Community (13-14, 4-2) avenged a loss to the Yellow Jackets earlier in the season and won its fourth consecutive game in the regular season finale.
Stratton Lovvorn led the way with seven points for the Vikings in the opening quarter, but an 8-0 Yellow Jacket run gave Grundy County the lead. The Yellow Jackets led 11-9 heading to the second quarter.
Grundy County took its biggest lead at 19-13 with 3:11 left before the Vikings came back.
Jacob Flannagan gave the Vikings a lift off the bench with six points while Lovvorn added five as Community scored its 10 consecutive points to take a 23-19 advantage.
The Vikings led 26-21 at the break.
"We reverted back to our old selves and the first available three, we started shooting," Coach Robbie Davis of the Vikings said. "We addressed that in a timeout and we started getting a lot better shots."
"You can't expect to come in somebody's gym and be able to shoot better than they do most of the time," Davis added.
The Vikings scored the first five points of the third quarter to complete an 18-2 run and led 31-21 with 5:12 remaining.
Community outscored the Yellow Jackets 9-6 and led 35-27 with one quarter to play.
Lovvorn scored seven points with Maki Fleming netting six points and Cole Crockett adding four as the Vikings were a perfect 8-of-8 from the line in the quarter.
The Yellow Jackets could not closer than nine as Community closed with the road win.
Lovvorn led the Vikings with 19 points while Fleming added 10.
Sam Parson and Austin Higgins each scored 10 points to lead Grundy County.
Community was 15-of-19 at the free throw line while the Yellow Jackets were 4-of-6.
The Vikings were aided by 14 points off the bench from Flannagan and Crockett, including a combined 8-of-9 at the foul line.
"We need scoring inside, that's how we're built," Davis said. "Our bigs played huge tonight."
The Vikings turn their attention to the District 7-AA tournament, which will be played in its entirety at Community. The Vikings open play with a semifinal game against Forrest Tuesday night at 7:45 p.m.

Community 9 17 9 17 — 52
Grundy Co. 11 10 6 13 — 40

Community: Stratton Lovvorn 19, Maki Fleming 10, Landon Lovvorn 4, Trace Broiles 3, Jason Cullum 2, Cole Crockett 8, Jacob Flannagan 6, Ramon Hernandez, Corey Paterick.
Grundy Co.: Sam Parson 10, Austin Higgins 10, Gavin Hobbs 8, Junior Crisp 3, Jordan Nance, Jathan Yokley 5, Garret Dees 3, Isaac Campbell 1, Alex Parson.
3-Point goals: Community (5): S. Lovvorn 3, L. Lovvorn, Broiles; Grundy Co. (8): S. Parson 2, Hobbs 2, Higgins, Yokley, Crisp, Dees.
Halftime score: Community 26, Grundy Co. 21.