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Bertie High School • Bethel Assembly Christian Academy • Lawrence Academy • Bertie Middle School StKHtS JL WEDNESDAY • DECEMBER 6,2017 Inside: ■ LA hoops I BACA hoops Church Briefs Fourth and Long ■■ ’ij . Jff'r if- ■ David Friedman Stock up; it's bowl season College football is nearing its end, and 1 am legitimately sad about it. The NFL is nice and all, but I pre fer Saturday football. Fortunately for all of us, the college football postseason is providing us with more than a few in triguing matchups. Even better, they aren’t all on Satur days. I’m going to skip over the Cotton, Peach, Rose and Sug ar Bowls. To suggest that you watch these would be like sug gesting that you in hale, before and after, exhaling. 1 figure you are like ly to watch the New Orleans, Cure, Las Ve gas, New Mexico, Ca mellia, Birmingham, Armed Forces, Dollar General, Hawaii, Tax- Slayer, Liberty, Fiesta, Orange and Outback Bowls because they are all happening on days you are likely to be off work. Some of them will be good games, but they will likely all be better to watch than most of the stuff on televi sion. The following is a chronological guide to games you should consider DVR’ing, calling in sick for or staying up late on a school night to watch. The first would be the Boca Raton Bowl on Tuesday, Dec. 19. This game features Akron out of the MAC, a smaller but tradi tionally tough confer ence, against FAU out of Conference USA. FAU features Lane Kiffin, Alabama’s next head coach after Dabo Swinney turns them down. The game will be played at FAU, so there will be a definite home field advantage. Two days later on Thursday, Dec. 21, you can watch the Bad Boy Mower’s Gas- parilla Bowl. Not just because it has such Fast start keys Bertie boys BY JIM GREEN Enterprise & Weekly Herald WINDSOR - A big first- quarter lead and the dynamic duo of Tray Riddick and Joshua Bur den proved too much to overcome for the River side High School varsity boys basketball team Friday night. Bertie led by 14 at the end of the first quarter and rode the efforts of Riddick (26 points) and Burden (24 points) to an 80-64 victory over Riverside in a non-con ference game. Bertie, which earned its first win of the sea son, improved to 1-2 overall while handing Riverside (2-1) its first loss. The home team start ed out well offensively, cis Riddick buried a three-pointer. Riverside didn’t need long to tie it at 3-all, as Ben Beach made a free throw and Aa’shaun Belcher had a bucket on a drive to the basket. Then the Falcons got hot. A three-pointer from Alden Cottle, followed by a basket from Bur den and another triple (Marquis Overton), gave Bertie a 14-5 edge. Burden’s free throws, coupled with buckets from Jaqwan Baylor and Riddick as well as free throws from Cottle and Riddick, staked the Falcons to a 23-9 lead at the end of the quarter. Every time the Knights seemingly had some momentum after a score in the second stanza, Bertie would % 1 See BERTIE, B3 JIM GREEN / Bertie Ledger-Advance Bertie’s Joshua Burden (No. 10) pulls up for the jumper over Riverside-defenders Aa’shaun Belcher (No. 21), Ben Beach (No. 41) and Kiam Bethea (No. 31) during Friday’s non-conference victory by the Falcons in Windsor. Lady Falcons suffer 2 losses BY JIM GREEN Enterprise & Weekly Herald ■ JIM GREEN / Bertie Ledger-Advance See FOURTH, B2 | Lady Falcon Destiny Clark moves the ball downcourt against Riverside. WINDSOR - Defense fu eled the offense, and that offense created separation. Riverside High School’s girls basketball team used a 14-2 run in the second quarter to establish control, the Knights went on to de feat Class 2A Bertie 49- 35 in a non-conference game Friday night. Riverside improved to 2-1 overall, while Bertie dropped to 1-2 with its second straight loss. Both squad displayed solid defense in the first quarter. Riverside jumped out to a 5-0 lead behind Zaria Brown-Williams, but the Falcons re sponded with nine of the next 11 points for a 9-7 lead as Aleeyah Proc tor and Destiny Clark combined for eight of those points, and Akiya King - returning to the lineup after being out nine months due to an ACL/MCL injury - added a free throw. Brown-Williams and point guard Mimi Bland got the offense rolling for Riverside in the sec ond quarter. Bland’s jumper tied it at 9-all with 5:57 left in the first half, and a free throw by Brown-Wil liams gave the Knights See FALCONS, B2 Bertie Ledger-Advance congratulates this week’s Athiete of the Week. Bertie Ledger-Advance Bertie Ledger-Advance 109 S. King St., RO. Box 69 Windsor, NC 27983 Athlete of the week Lawrence Academy Basketball Riley Ratzlaff
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