Newspapers / Bertie Ledger-Advance (Windsor, N.C.) / Jan. 4, 2017, edition 1 / Page 7
Part of Bertie Ledger-Advance (Windsor, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
BERTIE LEDGER-ADVANCE JANUARY 4,20171 7 The fabric of Bertie County since 1832 Sports ROANOKE-CHOWAN NEWS-HERALD HOLIDAY CLASSIC: BERTIE GIRLS RULE David Friedman U. ANORE ALFRED / 2nd Chance Productions Bertie High School’s varsity giris basketball team is all smiies Thursday night after the Lady Falcons improved to 11-0 by defeating Piymouth 65-25 in the championship game of the annual Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald Holiday Classic at Hertford County High School. Another title for Falcons MVP Akyia King leads Bertie to tournament championship 'X A ANDRE ALFRED /2nd Chance Productions Bertie’a Akyia King (No. 24) lofts the shot over Plymouth’s Brit tany Franklin during the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald Holi day Classoc Thursday night. AHOSKIE - Another year, another title for the Bertie High School girls basketball team. Led by Tournament Most Valuable Player Akyia King’s 31 points, the Lady Falcons rolled past Plymouth 65-25 to win the championship of the Roanoke-Chow an News-Herald Holi day Classic at Hertford County High School Thursday. After one quarter, the teams, were all knotted at 12-all. The rest of the con test, however, belonged to Bertie. The Falcons out- scored the Vikings 28-2 in the second quarter to take a 40-14 lead at halftime. , Bertie scored 10 straight times in the stanza (23 consecutive points), which started with the go-ahead bas ket by King. Autum Morings fol lowed with two buck ets, and Nyasia Barnes swished a pair of three- pointers to make it 24- 12. Barnes’ third hoop of the quarter extended the Bertie advantage to 26-12 with 3:56 left be fore halftime. Barnes (triple), Mor ings (old-fashioned three-point play) and King (3) made it 35-12 before “Brittany Frank lin’s bucket at 1:37 end ed the Bertie outburst. The Falcons con tinued their offensive prowess in the third quarter by outscoring Plymouth 18-3. Morings started the session with a basket. Then King scored three straight times, followed by another bucket from Morings, to make it 50- 15 with 2:42 left in the period. King tallied three more buckets whie Mor ings added a hoop as the Falcons ended the third with a command ing lead (58-17). King was 13-for-17 from the field (76 per cent) for her 31 points. Morings added 16 points while Barnes provided 13. Morings and Kings grabbed eight and five rebounds, respectively. Jomiya Earley dished out five assists while Carlisa Spivey chipped in three. SEMIHNALS Bertie 54, Northeastern 37 A fast start helped the Bertie girls ease past Northeastern in the semifinals of the Roanoke-Chowan News- Herald Holiday Classic on Dec. 27. The Falcons jumped out to a 19-8 lead after the first quarter and took a 32-16 advantage See BERTIE, 8 Bertie boys drop two - r* AHOSKIE - Two losses by different means. Bertie High School’s varsity boys basketball team suffered a pair of losses in the annual Roanoke-Chowan News- Herald Holiday Classic last week. The Falcons fell 85-75 to rival Hertford County on Wednesday (Dec. 28) in the consolation game, just a day after suffer ing an 88-59 defeat to Northeastern in a semi final round contest. In the consolation game, Bertie (2-9 over all) fell behind 6-0 in the first minute as Hertford County buried a pair of three-pointers. Joshua Burden’s buck et with 6:12 left in the first quarter, and a hoop from Jamarri White cut it to 6-4. The Bears used a 7-0 run to regain control until a basket by White ended the flurry. From there, Bertie - helped by offense from Burden, Quatravis Rid dick, Alden Cottle and Deontre Bryant, cut the deficit to 17-15 at the end of the period. Each team made sev eral mini-runs in the' second quarter. Hert ford County erased an 18-17 deficit with seven straight points before a bucket from Bryant ended the spurt. The Bears established an eight-point lead (30- 22) before Bertie fin ished the quarter on a 14-8 run sparked by White, Jaqwan Baylor, Riddick, J Morris and Bryant to pull within two (38-36) at the break. The third quarter fea tured three ties and six lead changes. White’s basket tied it at 38-all, and a Morris free throw gave the Fal cons a 39-38 lead with 6:53 remaining in the quarter. After the Bears took a 44-39 lead, Bertie used a 7-2 flurry - capped by an old-fashioned three- point play by Riddick - 2i 2Q ANDRE ALFRED / 2nci Chance Productions See FALCONS, 8 Bertie’s Jamarri White (No. 22) drives to the basket against Hertford County in the con'solation game of the Roanoke- Chowan News-Herald Holiday Classic. DUCK THRU 'N St. V/OOD STORESy Duck Thru Food Stores congratulates this week’s Athlete of the Week. .iernIgan WoiL & PROPANE Athlete of the week LA Nixon Rascoe Basketball Reviewing another UNC football season Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The above is a Latin term meaning “after this, therefore because of this.” It’s what comes to mind as 1 review another season in the books for my beloved Tar Heel football team. 1 can’t help but feel like a broken record after what seems like every loss over the past few seasons, wondering why the offensive coordinator and/or head coach was unwilling to com mit to the run or at last use it to set up the pass. Wondering became research that yielded results 1 was fairly certain of before I even began. In every loss this season, UNC had more passing at tempts than it did rushing attempts. Hence the term, post hoc ergo propter hoc. Therefore, be cause UNC attempted more passes than runs in losses, they lost because of it. Common sense re minds me that in a need to overcome scoring deficits late in games, Carolina was surely forced to throw the ball more frequently in an effort to score more quickly. That would certainly skew the stats in at least a few of those losses. Logic reminds me that my Tar Heels threw the ball more than they ran it when they also won games against James Madi son, Pittsburgh, Flori da State and Virginia. It’s clearly the way Larry Fedora and his co-offensive coordi nators (that’s a sports term meaning “two people with a fcmcy title and a lack of ap propriate responsibil ity”) have chosen to run the offense and it can obviously work... sometimes. Despite my logic and common sense, I can’t quiet the voice in my head that keeps telling me the while the action doesn’t always lead to the negative result, the negative result is still a byproduct of the ac tion. Albeit a possible one. I’m no college head coach and 1 don’t have See FOURTH, 8
Bertie Ledger-Advance (Windsor, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 4, 2017, edition 1
7
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75