Bobcats ambush 'Jackets, 66-59
By SAM DAVIS
Ckrtmicl* Sports Editor ^
Carver was ambushed on its
march through the North Pied
mont 3-A Conference season
and dealt a 66-59 defeat by
Glenn on the Yellowjackets'
court last Friday night.
The Yellowjackets, in the
midst of a nine-game winning
streak, brought an undefeated
conference record (6-0) into the
game and looked to be headed
for another win before they
started to come apart at the
seems.
Carver was cruising along
and had built a six-point lead
with possession of the ball early
in the fourth quarter. But the
Yellowjackets started to commit
uncharacteristic errors and
allowed Glenn to take control
of the game.
Glenn, playing most of the
third and fourth quarter without
the services of Josh Howard, its
leading scorer, got inspired play
from its backcourt to overcome
the six-point deficit and take the
lead in the final minutes.
Jarian Wallace, who led the
Bobcats with 16 points, Karim
Razzak, who added 1 1 and
Ryan Blake took up Howard's
slack. They came up with criti
cal plays late in the game to
allow the Bobcats to take the
lead and hold on down the
stretch.
Glenn pulled even on Ange
lo Evans' free throw with 3:34
left to play and finally pulled
ahead on Wallace's free throw
with 2:24 remaining. From
there the Bobcats added to their
lead by taking care of Carver's
reckless play.
Coach Alfred Poe of Carver
said his team was tlat down the
stretch. The Yellowjackets took
Glenn for granted and it came
back to haunt them.
Tony Ingram of Carver takes the hall to the basket against Glenn.
"We just didn't play well,"
Poe said. "We had a six-point
lead and the ball in the fourth
quarter and we stopped playing.
They were able to sneak in and
get a lot of stickbacks and just
out hustle us to the basketball.
They just wanted it more than
we did."
Carver also suffered
through one of its worst shoot
ing performances of the season.
The Yellowjackets had their
chances, even after Glenn took
the lead, but kept coming away
empty.
"We missed some easy
shots," Poe said. "We also threw
the ball away a lot. All we had
to do was to fake the ball and
then get it down inside."
Poe said his team also
struggled offensively when
Delayo Dodd, its leading scorer,
went to the bench with foul
trouble.
"Somebody else has to step
up," Poe said. "We just didn't
have a good game on offense. A
lot of them weren't in their
rhythm."
Carver held a 31-28 lead at
the end of the first half and
worked it up to six, 36-30 at the
5:12 mark. But Glenn managed
to stay close after Wallace hit a
layup and was fouled on the
play. Wallace made the free
throw to cut the gap to 36-33
and the Bobcats stayed within
three until the final minutes of
the half when Ryan Braham hit
three free throws and Dodd
scored on a follow to boost the
lead to 49-43.
Glenn forced a turnover on
Carver's initial possession of
the second half and got two
baskets by Jerrell Morgan to
make the score 49-47 with 7:10
to play in the game.
Evans' follow shot at 6:20
tied the score for the first time
with 6:20 and the lead see
sawed until Wallace hit one of
two free throws with 2:24 to
play and Glenn never trailed
again.
Glenn had four players in
double figures, paced by Wal
lace's 16. Howard scored 12,
Razzak 11 and Evans 10. In
addition, Blake chipped in with
nine and Morgan had eight.
Anthony Nelson an<$
Charles Deartnon scored 10
points each to lead Carver.
Dodd, Antoine Barnes and
Torry Ingram had eight each for
the Yellowjackets.
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Forsyth lech gets big win over UNC jayvees, prepare for conference
By SAM DAVIS
Chronicle Sports Editor
When Forsyth Tech took the
court to battle North Carolina's
jayvee basketball team last Sat
urday at the Dean Smith Stu
dent Center, it was like looking
into a mirror.
Tech's defensive system
was modeled after the ones used
by long-time UNC coach Dean
Smith and Forsyth Tech was
prepared to see the Tarheels'
multiple defensive sets.
TTiat knowledge paid divi
dends for Tech, which battled
from a two-point halftime lead
to post a 90-82 victory.
Coach David Solomon of
Forsyth Tech said the victory
was probably the most signifi
cant in the history of the three
year-old program.
"It was a heck-of-a win,"
Solomon said. It was a very,
veiy satisfying win for every
one. The kids were thrilled to be
in the Dean Dome and they
really came to play. There was
never an issue of us having but
terflies. We came out ready to
play."
The key for Tech's offen
sive attack against UNC's
defense was the play of Corey
Dawkins, its point guard.
Dawkins, a former High Point
Andrews standout, was able to
used his speed and quickness to
go around, over and through the
defense. He ended up with eight
points, eight assists and five
steals.
"We were familiar with
their sets on defense," Solomon
said. "We knew they were going
to trap us. We had worked on it
all season. Corey is so quick
that he was able to dribble past
the trap ad make plays. They
had good pressure defensively
all around, but we made some
adjustments at half that helped."
With Dawkins distributing
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players in double figures. O.J.
Linney led the way with a
career-high 33 points and 12
rebounds.
"It was a signature game for
O.J." Solomon said. "He was a
overlooked coming out of high
school and he had a statement to
make."
So did several other Tech
players.
"Our players have gone
through enough difficult deci
sions and events that they were
really psyched up to play,"
Solomon said. "We have a lot of
good kids that have gotten bad
breaks. But playing down there
was great for them because
most of them had looked to this
game a long time. They look at
Chapel Hill as the Mecca of col
lege basketball."
Kirk Champney, a former
Reynolds player, backed Linney
with 14 point. John Fant and
Jeremiah Handy had 12 points
each and Donnie Greely scored
11 points.
Solomon said Tech's ath
leticism was too much for UNC
in the second half after Tech
solved the Tarheels' defense.
"Our kids ran the floor
well," Solomon said. "It was
clear that they were happy to
be there and that they wanted to
make the most of this
game "The arena was very invit
ing 10 our players and it was a
great place to play."
The victory improved
Tech's record to 16-5. It was the
team's fifth consecutive win and
ninth in ten games since the
start of the new year.
Solomon said he looked for
ward to getting back into the
Western Tarheel Conference for
games against Central Piedmont
Community College and Bre
vard, which is coached by ex
Tarheel Dudley Bradley.
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Moss, Barnes, Thompson lead Beacons
to win in Sims Center Basketball League
10-14 Division
(Games played on Jan.
27)
The Tarheels led by a trio
of scorers defeated Wake For
est 20-9. Carlos Moss, Brian
Barnes and Haywood Thomp
son led the Tarheels to victory
by combining for 18 of their
team's 20 points. The duo of
Chris Washington and Latonya
Glenn gave a great effort, scor
ing all 9 Wake points between
the two of them, but could not
quite catch the Tarheels terrific
three-some.
In the second game Duke
claimed its second victory,
knocking off the Wildcats 38 to
26. Severus Hicks, Paris
Barnes and Anthony Steel led
the Duke scoring punch by
combining to score 34 points.
The Wildcats had four players,
Stephen Scott, Jovan Scipio,
Tamika Hayes and Alvin
Wright, step up with a big
game. Together they scored all
of the Wildcats 26 points, but
couldn't keep pace with Duke.
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5-9 Division
(Games played on Feb. 1)
The Bulls pulled out a 9-8
win in an extremely close
against the pacers. Together
Kevin Hardy and John Gladex
scored all 9 points for the
Bulls, just edging out the Pac
ers and their dynamic duo, of
Michael Hayes and David
Fields, who scored 7 points
collectively.
In the second game of the
day the Sonics posted an
impressive 7-2 win over the
Rockets. The hot shooting of
Ronald Fraley and Donald Sci
pio netted all 7 of the Sonics
points and was enough to best
the Rockets leading scorer,
w
Jamie Glenn who had 2.
League Commissioner Ben
Piggott announced that he will
be looking very closely at
school reports cards for satis
factory scholarship and con
duct of a league players. The
10-14 Division of the League
holds all games on Monday
evenings starting at 5:15 p.m.
All 5-9 Division games are
played on Saturday mornings
beginning at 9:15 a.m.
The League also congratu
lates three of its stars, Severus
Hicks, Halima McCaskill and
Jovon Scipio, who were win
ners in the 1997 CIAA Ball
Boy & Ball Girl Essay Contest.
These young men and woman
will be special guest at the
1997 CIAA Basketball Tourna
ment at the Lawrence Joel Vet
erans Memorial Coliseum Feb.
24- March 1, 1997.