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Reynold* accepts it* 1999 Lash/Chronicle J.V. Tournament Championship Trophy.
Demons
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role. He's always been smart, but
now he is adding another ele
ment."
Overby said the Demons
played well together throughout
the tournament. Dusty Harrison
scored 7 points. Franklin Brown
tallied 6, William Palmer and
Christshon Hicks had 5 and Tony
Tucker had 2.
"Our chemistry was great,"
Overby said. "These guys get
along well and they feed off the
energy of each other.''
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Ken Hoi ley of Reynolds glides in for a layup.
Photo by Bruce Chapman
Ju*tin Wozeah of Reynold* elude* teveral Glenn
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Byrom
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ent," he added. "They look to me
to score more points and be the
player that gets inside."
Making the transition from a
year ago took a lot of work,
according to Byrom.
"I put a lot of tiine into getting
better on offense," Byrom said. "I
spent a lot of time during the sum
mer working on my shooting and
handling the ball. I knew that I
needed to work on being a better
scorer this season, and my team
mates have put a lot of trust and
confidence in me. They've really
helped me and we have worked
together as a team."
Likewise, Byrom said his team
had to work much harder to cap
ture the title this year.
"We thought we could win it,"
he said. "Even though we lost a lot
of good players, we all felt that if
we worked together we could
make it three in a row."
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the move took the Demons by
surprise.
"We had to do something to
, get us going." Massie said. "We
don't play a lot of man-toyman,
but the kids responded to it very
well.'
"This was their first tourna
ment on the high school level and
I think they understand now what
to expect.'.'
John Hardy and Ross Pleban
were the big guns for the Spartans.
Hardy scored 16 points, and Ple
ban scored 15.
"Hardy was tremendous for us
in the middle," Massie said. "He
made a lot of inside shots and was
even better from the free-throw
line. He just really kept battling
inside."
Pleban also did a good job of
assisting the Spartans' playmakers
run the offense.
"He's a great captain," Massie
said. "He did a good job of run
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the score at 54-54 and sending the game into overtime.
The short-handed Jaguars kept it close for the first few
minutes of overtime but ran out of steam.
"I told my kids there was no reason for them to hang
their heads," Davis said. "We only have 10 boys who are
true ninth-graders and for us to go up against a 4-A pro
gram like Mount Tabor and take them to overtime says a
lot about who we are and what we're doing."
The Jaguars took the confidence gained from that expe
rience into their next game with Parkland. Again, LIFT
was undermanned. The Jaguars had only six players avail
able for the game and trailed by 10 at the half.
"Parkland tried to take advantage of that by forcing
tempo with a full-court press," Davis said. "Our guys got a
little frustrated with it in the first half. But in the second
half, our kids really played hard."
In fact, the Jaguars used a 32-8 third-quarter run to
take control of the game. LIFT held on in the fourth quar
ter to seal the win.
"The tournament was a great opportunity for our
school," Davis said. "It gave us a chance to match up
against public high schools in Forsyth County. I think it
showed our kids that they have what it takes to compete
evenly with them even though we don't have the facilities
and financial support that they have."
Davis said the players on the team stepped up in a big
way.
"I have to give them a lot of credit," he said. "I can go
up and down the roster and say what a great job they did.
William Conrad was outstanding shooting the three^point
er. Malcolm Davis was unstoppable in the low post.
Claude Sales is as talented as any kid in the city. Phillip
Ingram is a very talented player. Ronnie Tucker did a great
job ruftning the point.
"Our reserves also played well. Yurkoy Williams played
as hard as anyone Robert Washington did some good
things in the first game and so did Trey F/ance."
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with Mount Tabor.
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