Jayvee Basketball Roundup
North Forsyth closing in on title
By Chronicle Staff
North Forsyth is well on its way
to finishing the season as the Chro n i
clt 's County junior varsity basket
ball champions for the '88-'89 season.
The Vikings encountered few road
blocks on their way to gaining two
more victories last week over Carver
and East Forsyth.
Glenn split their two games on
could never quite get over the hump
as the Yellowjackets prevailed 93-77.
The final score doesn't indicate how
close the game was until midway
through the third period.
At that point, Glenn trailed by
four points. However, Carver
unleashed a savage offensive burst,
causing Glenn's defense to break
down and making them pay by gel
ting break-away layups to increase
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Chronicle's County JV
Basketball Standings
As of February 13, 1989
Team
1 . North Forsyth
2. Mt. Tabor
3. Carver
4. Reynolds
5. Glenn
6. West Forsyth
7. Parkland
8. East Forsyth
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County Conference
10-1 5-1*
8-3 7-3**
7-4 3-4*
6-5 3-5**
5-5 3-4*
5-5 2-5**
Current records not available
1-9 1-6* *10
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9-10
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* Record in Metro-4A Conference
" Record in Central Piedmont Conference
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last week's schedule. Their victory
over Greensboro Page capped the
week in what has 10 be the major
upset in the jayvee ranks. The Bob
cats came back down to earth, howev
_ er, when they were dumped by Carv
er.
West got a measure of revenge
when they defeated Parkland after
. losing to the Mustangs two weeks
earlier. But then they dropped a last
second, one point heartbreaker to
Davie County three days later.
East Forsyth finally got that
long-sought after victory in the Metro
4-A Conference by defeating Greens
boro Page. It was the Eagles first con
ference victory since 1986.
Vikes keep the lead |
Coach Virgil Simpson's team has
been unstoppable since they dropped
their only county game to Reynolds
earlier in the season. The opened the
week by spanking Carver, 83-68.
Four Vikings scored in double
figures. Todd Jenkins led the pack
with 22 points and Anthony Bonner
added 14. Earl McCollough and
Eugene Henderson each scored 13
points.
"WHedall the way," says Simp
? senr "but it wasn't a run away game,
k stayed close until the fourth quarter.
During the last period, our fast break
worked very well. And of course of
depth helped, because we were a little
quicker than they were in the final
quarter."
Against East, the Vikings
employed a full steam ahead mentali
ty to whip the Eagles 72-57. North;
jumped to a 15-6 lead in the first
quarter and never looked back after
that. Jenkins was again the top gun
with 22 points. Leon Eaton finished
with 14, Bonner scored 11 and
McCollough chipped in with 10.
"We had a really good first quar
ter," Simpson says, "and we also
played strong in the third quarter. It
was really a matter of us getting the
lead and never relinquishing it.
Defensively, I felt we did what we
had to, and again, because we play a
10 man rotation, we tend to wear our
opponents down by the time to last
quarter comes around."
Bobcats upend Page
Monte Miller hit a 12-foot
jumper with five seconds left in the
game to give Glenn a shocking 63-62
triumph over Greensboro Smith.
Entering that contest, Smith was 5-0
?in conference play and 15-1 overall.
Glenn's victory avenged an earli
;er 15 point loss to Smith.
"Time was running out, so we
had Miller foul his man, hoping that
he would miss and we would get the
ball back with time enough to get a
?hot off," explains Bobcats coach
Xing Samuels.
"Luckily for us, the Smith shoot
er missed, and Miller took the ball
from end to end and hit the shot at the
buzzer."
Glenn dominated the contest for
the most part At one point, they had
Smith down by as many as 14 points
in the second half. But the Greens
boro squad recovered by using their
inside game and being accurate in
their foul shooting. The only time
Smith held the lead (62-61) was right
at the end before Miller made the
game winning basket
Against Carver, the Bobcats
their margin.
"Even with the 16 point loss, the
"score was deceiving,"says~Samucls.
"I was pleased with the effort the
team had. They played Carver as
tough as they could. It seemed like
we were always on the verge of tak
ing the lead. But we could never get
oyer the hill in that game.
Pablo Smith led the Bobcats
offense with some stellar play as
point guard. Michael Brayboy and
Derrick Hicks also played key roles
on the defensive end. Glenn played
the game without the services of Ryan
Jacobs, who sat the game out because
of the flu. Antoine Ryan came off the
bench to play some meaningful min
utes and is beginning to demonstrate
his value as a contributor.
Eagles edge Page
East Forsyth zigged and zagged* _
but in th* end, they came away with a
65-60 victory over Greensboro Page
last week.
The Eagles jumped on their
opponents early and often as coasted
to a 25-11 in the first quarter. Guard
Steve Lindsay (who finished with 17
points), led the charge, hitting four,
three-point shots In the opening peri
? od.
But Page started to retaliate in
the second quarter. East suffered from
the cold shooting touch which
allowed Page to get back in con
tention. By the end of the half, Page
had cut the East lead to 36-32.
Third quarter action saw Page
pick up where they left off before the
half ended. They put on a big surge
and were up 54-45 at the end of the
quarter.
Entering the final quarter, Eagles
coach Doug Shields decided that his
team needed to come out of their zone
defense and go to a man-to-man. "We
had done a good job with our 2-3 in
keeping them boxed off of the
boards," Shields says. "But then they
started hitting their shots, and the
ones that didn't fall, they were able to
get second shots at and score."
The East strategy worked in
speeding up the tempo of the game
and it eventually forced Page to aban
don their zone. Defensively, the
Eagles were able to force turnovers,
get easy shots and climb back into the
game.
"Once we were able to spread the
floor," Shields points out, "we were
able to use our quickness in getting to
the basket on our drives to the lane."
Tony Perry, who rejoined the
team last week after suffering the
chicken pox, teamed with Lindsay to
lead the East scoring with 17 points
of his own. Brian Jones played a
heady game at the lead guard spot,
scoring 10 points and handing out 14
assists. Anthony Reader was especial
ly effective in the paint, scoring 10
points and snatching 10 rebounds.
The Eagles loss to North Forsyth
was a matter of East being outplayed
from start to finish. "We were able to
stay with them in the first quarter,"
Shields says. "But in the second quar
ter, they just took over. They are big
ger and faster than we are. They beat
in every phase of basketball that there
is. I was impressed and very surprised
that Greensboro Smith beat them.
Jones was the Eagles top scorer
vs. North with 14 points, followed by
Reader's 12. Alvin Johnson added
nine points and 10 rebounds.
West gains a split
Free throw shooting was directly
responsible for the 1-1 slate that the
West Forsyth jayvees experienced last
week.
West started the week off by get
ting even with Parkland 60-49. Jeff
Rhodes paced the victors with 14
points and five rebounds, while Mike
Parker enjoyed a perfect shooting
night with 1 1 points (three for three in
field goals, five for five from the free
throw line). Brad Poindexter added
nine points. The team enjoyed a good
night from the foul line, converting
21 of 38 free throws.
The kids were really up for that
game," says Mike Huddleston, West's
coach. "It was payback time for us
because Parkland beat us at our place
earlier in the year (50-42). The team
didn't feel very good about losing that
game because they felt they were the
better team.
"We ran an uptempo pace which
was to our liking. We just ran and
used our speed, and when we went to
our full -court, man-to-man, every
thing worked fined. Things finally
started to work."
However, things didn't go so well
a few nights later when Davie County
won a 48-47 thriller.
The score was tied at 47-all, .
when West fouled Davie County.
Their shooter hit the front end of the
one-and-one, but missed the second
attempt. Mustang guard Kenny
O'Neal took the rebound and went the
length of the floor with three second
left and launched a 12-foot shot that
missed the mark.
"We instructed Kenny to take it,"
explains Huddleston. "It appeared that
he had enough time to take it all the
way to the basket. But he pulled up
and took the shot thinking that he did
n't have enough time to go all the way
to the hoop before the buzzer sound
ed."
Had Parkland been accurate from
the free throw line, they may not have
needed a last ditch effort to pull out a
victory. They were six of 14 at the
foul line. Says Huddleston: "Our
inability to hit free throws is what
really hurt us. We had a five point
lead at the end of the third quarter.
But then Davie started to foul us and
put us on the line. We just didn't get
the job done."
Rodney Robinson topped all
Mustangs scorers with 13 points and
Rhodes had 10 points and seven
rebounds. Parker added nine points.
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