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Bertie High School • Bethel Assembly Christian Academy • Lawrence Academy • Bertie Middle School w CO A. u Sports M, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER20,2017 Inside: Bertie basketball ■ News ■ Academia LIBERTY CHRISTIAN 38, BETHEL ASSEMBLY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 34 David Friedman Which Kobe was better? The Los Angeles Lakers honored Kobe Bryant on Monday by retiring his jersey numbers. Having your number retired by your high school team would be a big deal for almost anybody. Having your number retired by the same franchise that had “The Logo” Jerry West, Wilt Chamber- lain, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, Magic John son, James Worthy and Shaquille O’Neal is a massive deal. It is only after re alizing this that you can appreciate just tell how big a deal it Is that the Lakers re tired both the num bers 8 and 24. 1 understand why the organization re tired both numbers. Bryant was one of the greatest players to ever play the game and, in his 20 years with the organization. He spent half of it wearing the number 8 and half of it wearing the number 24. It does bring up the inevitable question though, which Kobe was better? Number 8 Kobe is the bailer that took Brandy to the high school prom. He’s the one that came straight to the league out of high school, won the NBA Slam Dunk com petition in his rookie year, went on to win three NBA titles and dropped 81 points on the Toronto Raptors. He was first team All- NBA three times and four times was named to the leagues first team All-Defensive squad. r Number 8 Kobe iEocked a small afro, fried to start a rap career and wore Adi- das for awhile. He was young, brash and unafraid of any one. Number 8 Kobe birthed the Black Mamba. As good as numero pcho was, he was also the rookie that rode the bench behind Ed die Jones and he had the benefit of playing alongside one of the most dominant big t JIM GREEN / Bertie Ledger-Advance Bethel Assembly Christian Academy guard Maddie Knowles (in white) tries to maintain her balance as she passes against a double-team from Liberty Chris tian’s Hannah Grayson (No. 3) and Shameya Watson (No. 21) during Friday’s game in Askewville. Eagles go cold against Heat BY JIM GREEN Bertie Ledger-Advance ASKEWVILLE - The Heat got hot, and the Lady Eagles went cold. Liberty Christian used a 16-9 run in the fourth quarter - including 8-3 in the final 4:46 - to de feat Bethel Assembly Christian Academy 3^ 34 Friday night. The teams were tied 18-all at halftime as the contest turned into a scoring battle between Bethel’s Kayley Minton and Liberty Christian’s Hannah Grayson. Minton’s basket off a pass from Lindsey Todd put the Eagles (8-3 over all) ahead 27-26 with 5:46 remaining. But Grayson - who scored 16 of her team- high 23 points in the first half - had some help as the Heat rallied. Shameya Watson’s bucket gave Liberty a 28-27 lead, and Gray son’s basket off a pass from Ashley Denning made it 30-27, prompt ing Eagles’ coach Ash ley Byrum to call tim eout with 5:05 left. Minton converted two free throws, and Maddie Knowles stole a pass and went the distance for the go-ahead basket, 31-30, with 4:46 remain ing. The Eagles, however, couldn’t put the Heat away, missing on four straight shot attempts on their next posses sion. Liberty took a 33-31 lead on an old-fash ioned three-point play by Grayson with 4:07 left. The only basket of the game from Deja James made it 35-31. Bethel then missed three more attempts to pull closer with under two minutes to play. Minton’s front end of a two-shot free throw op portunity pulled Bethel within three (35-32) with 1:07 left, but Den ning’s basket just seven seconds later pushed the lead back to five, and the Eagles turned it over at 48.1. Denning’s free throw with 37.8 accounted for the final point for the Heat. Bethel just couldn’t See EAGLES, B4 LIBERTY CHRISTIAN 78, BETHEL ASSEMBLY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 65 Big deficit too much for BACA boys BY JIM GREEN Bertie Ledger-Advance See FOURTH, B4 JIM GREEN / Bertie Ledger-Advance Bethel Assembly Christian Academy’s Caleb Simmons (No. 15) and Mason Dunlow try to de fend Liberty Christian’s Joseph Magollon (No. 20) during Friday’s game against the Heat. ASKEWVILLE - Liberty Christian’s ‘big three’ of Damon Beckwith, Isaiah Conner and Cameron Oliver combined for 63 points and 10 of the team’s 11 three-point ers in a 78-65 victory over Bethel Assembly Christian Academy Fri day night. The Eagles (7-4 over all) had plenty of bal ance on offense as four players scored in double figures, but a 22-point deficit in the third quarter proved too much to overcome for the home team in its final game before the Christmas holidays. Beckwith led the Heat with 25 points includ ing a pair of 3s, while Conner added 21 points and three triples. Oliver tallied 17 points - 15 of them coming on five 3-pointers. Liberty started hot and stayed hot most of the first half. In addition to six triples, the Heat were able to score sev eral times in transition and as a result of offen sive rebounds. A 12-2 run in the final 2:06 of the first quarter gave Liberty a 2^11 ad vantage. A basket from Caleb Simmons off a turnover cut the deficit to 14 (29- See BOYS, B4 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 BHS Basketball Alden Cottle
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