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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2008
BARROW JOURNAL
PAGE 3B
Lady Dog’s cruise to win Friday
EXCITING WIN
Brittany Whitt helped the Winder-Barrow Lady Bulldoggs
to a victory against an old rival last Friday.
Photo by Jessica Brown
BY CHRIS BRIDGES
t didn’t take the Winder-
Barrow High School
girls basketball team
long to establish dominance in
its game against rival Monroe
Area Friday.
By the time the final buzz
er had sounded, the Lady
Bulldoggs had recorded a
53-23 win against the Lady
Purple Hurricanes and had
gotten back on track follow
ing a disappointing loss to
Salem three days earlier.
Mimi Hill scored 12 points
and Brittany Whitt added 11
to lead WBHS to the win
Friday.
The Lady Doggs also
improved their record to 5-2.
Also in Friday’s home
contest, Lauren Hamel,
Courtney Miner and Alexis
Middlebrooks all scored six
points.
Last Tuesday the WBHS
girls fell to Salem 57-41. The
team was hurt by the absence
of Malik Stevenson who was
out with an injury. Stevenson
also missed the Monroe Area
game.
In addition to being without
Stevenson, the Lady Doggs
battled foul trouble against
Salem as Hill and Whitt had
to sit half of the first quarter.
Salem led 27-25 at halftime
but foul trouble continued
to hound WBHS as Hill was
whistled for her third foul.
The game was close until
the final four minutes as the
Lady Doggs trailed by six.
Salem then made a couple of
three-pointers and some easy
lays, to pull ahead.
“Overall, we played a decent
game, except for the fact we
were outrebounded,’’ WBHS
coach Brenda Hill said. “We
gave them too many second
chances.”
AHS wrestling continued from IB
“We are now able to fill all
our weight classes and that
will make a big difference
in future meets and tourna
ments,” Stoudenmire said.
“There will be some bouncing
around until everyone gets to
their final weights, but when
that is settled I think we will
be a very strong team in both
traditional and dual tourna
ments.”
The AHS varsity wrestling
team is scheduled to com
pete in the West Hall Duals
Monday and the Winder-
Barrow High School Beef-
Brady Tournament Dec.
28-29.
WEEKEND SUCCESS
Blaze Shaw and the Apalachee High School wrestling
team finished second at the Wildcat Open this week
end. Photo by Lyn Senupta
WBHS Wrestling continued from IB
Beal was 5-3 during the
Wildcat Open with four pins in
what Home said was a “tough
weight class.”
“Chase earned a lot of points
for us,” the coach said. “His
pins were worth six points
each.”
Keinat was 5-1 during the
event including three pins.
“He was really impressive,”
Horne said. “He is showing
improvement every match. His
only loss was to Commerce.
Taylor is an impressive athlete
and is also a great student. He
takes all advanced classes and
is college bound.”
Keinat is only a sophomore
and should only continue to
improve, his coach said.
“We expect big things from
him in the future,” Horne said.
“To do this well against main
ly juniors and seniors is really
something.”
Commerce was the over
all winner this past weekend
followed by host Apalachee,
North Hall, Social Circle,
Oconee County, WBHS,
Central Gwinnett, Oglethorpe
County, Athens Christian
and Johnson High School of
Gainesville.
“When you have two fresh
men and two sophomores earn
medals, it means good things
for the future,” Horne said.
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WBHS Success continued from
FLYING
HIGH
Winder-
Barrow High
School’s
(3) Shun
Thurmond
drives
through two
Monroe Area
defenders
Friday. The
Bulldoggs,
coached by
Eli Connell
defeated
their long
time rival to
record their
sixth win of
the season.
Photo by
Jessica Brown
IB
Connell said a key to his team’s success is
to prevent standout Jodd Maxey from being in
foul trouble.
“As a team we also have to stay out of foul
trouble,” the coach said. “We don’t need to let
opponents score with the clock stopped. We
have been working with Jodd on cutting down
on his fouls. Every player can defend the bas
ket by taking a charge or blocking attempts.
Jodd is going to be a shot blocker. He has the
responsibility to do that without picking up
fouls.”
Assistant coach Sammy Hale has been work
ing with Maxey on making blocks without
fouling and not swinging his arms.
Connell said it is also key to control the
rebounds and not knock the basketball into the
stands on blocks.
“Jodd or any other player picking up fouls
can also be contributed to us playing poor
defense on the perimeter,” Connell said.
The team’s 6-1 record going into this week’s
slate of games has been somewhat surprising
Connell said because the roster was filled with
some question marks.
Bo Aldridge was injured most of last year
and two contributors — Alonzo Nelson and
Trent Demeritte — were on the junior varsity
a season ago and Henry Maxey did not play
at all.
“Four of our top seven players had limited or
no experience,” Connell said. “You never know
how they are going to react in games. I felt we
could be good because Shun (Thurmond), Jodd
and D.J. (Butler) were All-Region type players.
When you have players of that caliber, then
you have a chance for success.”
The Bulldoggs are also 3-1 in Region
8-AAAA crossover games with the subregion
schedule ahead.
“We’ll keep working and keep trying to
improve in the areas we need to improve in,”
Connell said. “To be 6-1 is a good way to start,
but the season is a long way from being over.
We want to have many more wins before all is
said and done.”
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