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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
Lady Hornets cruise past Lady Knights
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Led by Hanna Jones’ 20
points, the Westfield Lady
Hornets racked up their sec
ond highest point total of
the season, defeating visit
ing Windsor 47-31 to tally
its third win of the season.
Westfield jumped to a 12-6
lead in the first quarter and
expanded it to 28-16 at the
half.
“We got lay ups against
their man-to-man,” said
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that finished Perry in the
second half.
“These were turnovers
that (Houston County)
didn’t have to work for,”
Bradley said.
Taking a six-point lead
into the third quarter, the
Lady Panthers committed
10 turnovers to the Lady
Bears’ four.
Perry had extended its
lead to 10, 32-22, with
the help of a Lady Bear’s
short jumper into the Lady
Panthers’ basket, but went
on to score only seven more
points in the third quarter
as Houston County put up
15 points in that frame to
pull within two, 39-37, by
the end of the third quar
ter.
“They’re quick and have
some talented players,”
Baxley said. “They did hurt
us on defensive rebounds.
They got inside.”
Perry’s Kim Burgess fin
ished the night with 19
rebounds.
Perry had other problems
to battle. With their third
coach in three years, the
Lady Panthers were strug
gling to adjust to Bradley’s
new man-to-man defense.
“They’re not used to
man-to-man,” Bradley said.
“They played only zone last
year.”
That lack of experi
ence began to tell in the
fourth quarter. Combined
with 13 turnovers and only
four field goals in the last
eight minutes, Perry saw
its lead disappear. Lady
Bear Farrah Lewis’s only
field goal tied the game at
40, but her shot inspired a
Lady Bears 12-2 run that
put Houston County up 50-
43 at the midpoint of the
fourth quarter.
Houston County’s Tonia
Williams scored eight of her
game high 27 points in the
fourth quarter before she
fouled out with two min
utes and 47 seconds left to
play.
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six inch height advantage.”
In the third quarter,
Murph added eight more
points as the Hornets out
scored the Knights 19-10.
“That 17-4 run to open
the third quarter made the
difference,” Walls said. “The
defense gave great effort,
but they were tired.”
Walls substituted con
stantly, attempting to keep
his players fresh.
“We’ve been playing
everybody the last three
or four games,” Walls said.
“We’ve gotten our defense
established. Now we can
work on the offense. We’ve
won three in a row.”
The Hornets are 3-2 after
an 0-2 start. Windsor fell
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Westfield head coach Jeff
Eubanks. “We were eating
them up while they were in
man-to-man.”
That ended with the half.
The Lady Knights switched
defenses to 2-1-2 zone to
open the second half and
held Westfield to one point
and 0-15 from the field.
“The saying is that you
win with defense,” Eubanks
said, “but when the offense
doesn’t play well, the defense
starts stinking.”
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Houston County player Tonia Williams (50) goes for a
rebound as Perry senior Racheal Bass (25) looks on
in the Houston County gym Saturday night in Warner
Robins.
“She took control of the
game,” Baxley said. “She
kept us in the game.”
It took almost 30 minutes
to play those last 107 sec
onds. Both teams matched
each other in field goals with
two apiece, and they both
exercised the same futility
at the free throw line. Perry
went to the line 12 times
but made only three shots,
while Houston County hit
only two of eight.
“We’ve been up and down
all season,” Baxley said of
his team’s success at the
free throw line. “One game
we’re 16-21, the next 9-
30.”
Baxley credits his team’s
From staff reports
As well as things went Friday night for Westfield,
they went in the opposite direction Saturday. The
Hornets and Lady Hornets traveled to Central
Fellowship where both squads lost. The girls fell 51-
38, the boys 48-31.
Hannah Jones was the leader for the Lady Hornets
in terms of scoring. She had 10. Mason Moreland had
eight, Haley Way seven, Carly Albritton four, Mallory
Eubanks, Daryl Ann Thompson and Sheldon Hiley
three.
Mandy Spencer had 22 to lead the Lady Lancers.
Over on the boys’ side, Nash Murph had 13 to
lead the Hornets, who only trailed 19-18 at the half.
Cohen Carpenter and Keenan Malone had six each,
to 3-5.
Westfield’s offense shot
13 for 27 from the field, one
for three from three-point
range in the second half.
At the foul line, the
Hornets hit seven of 13
shots.
Windsor pulled to within
six, 23-29, in the third quar
ter and within three, 26-29,
in the first period of the
fourth quarter.
“The turn around in the
second half came when I
put Hannah Jones in post,”
Eubanks said. “She’s a
guard and we put her inside
at 5-feet-5, but I moved her
inside and she scored 10
points in the fourth quar
ter.”
Jones is only the second
hard work for the victory.
“At one point or another,
everybody who played was
on the floor fighting for a
lose ball.”
Williams was the only
Houston County player
scoring in double figures.
Perry’s Burgess and Ashley
West finished with 14 points
each and Ashley Roberts
added 12.
Both teams next play in
the Houston County Bear
Brawl.
Perry meets Campbell,
the second ranked team in
AAAAA, on Thursday at 7
p.m. and Houston County
plays Peach County at 7
p.m. Wednesday.
Brannen Purdee led
Windsor with 17 points.
Tanner Gordon and Matt
Barlow added 11 and 13
points respectively.
Murph’s 19 was joined by
Keenan Malone’s 11 and
John Peake’s 14.
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player to score in double fig
ures for the Lady Hornets
this season.
“We’re all ninth and tenth
graders,” Eubanks said, “no
juniors or seniors.”
That made the win impor
tant.
“We last won against
Piedmont,” Eubanks said.
“Anytime you win and you
haven’t won a lot, it builds a
lot of confidence.”
Everything was working
for the Lady Hornets Friday
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Greg Nix. “We were giving
up too many points off our
press. Once we switched
to zone, we slowed (Perry)
down.”
Houston County opened
the second half with an 11-4
run that put the Bears up
38-35 halfway through the
third quarter.
The Panthers’ Kameron
Felder hit his second three
pointer of the quarter to
tie the game, but the Bears
responded with a 6-0 run
to take the lead 44-38, and
led 46-42 at the end of the
quarter.
Felder made four treys in
the game and led his team
with 18 points.
“We didn’t give them any
second-chance shots,” Nix
said. “They rely on getting
second-and third-chance
shots.”
Hardy concurred that his
team was having trouble
scoring.
“They played a lot more
zone in the second half,”
Hardy said. “They shot well
and we didn’t.”
Houston County grabbed
13 defensive rebounds in the
second half to the Panthers’
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Houston County sophomore forward Craig Presley (5) attempts to block the shot of
Perry junior Antonio Hubbard (23) during the boys basketball game Saturday night at
Houston County in Warner Robins.
night. They hit 14 of 18
free throws while the Lady
Knights made only three out
of 14 free throws.
“It’s our ninth game of the
season and our first home
game,” Eubanks said. “We
were able to force turnovers
on defense in the fourth
quarter.”
Westfield committed three
miscues in final frame to
Windsor’s eight, and the
Lady Knights totaled 21
turnovers for the game.
five, and the Bears hit seven
of 12 field goals in the third
quarter.
The Bears’ Jon Martin
scored 18 of his game-high
20 points in the second half,
10 of them in the fourth
quarter.
“Jon took over the game
around the basket,” Nix
said. “He had 11 rebounds.”
Eight of them in the sec
ond half that resulted in
eight of his 18 second-half
points.
Perry tried to come back in
the fourth quarter, staying
within three the first minute
and a half of the final eight
minutes, but sparked by
Martin’s four points off the
offensive boards, Houston
County made a six-point
mini run that gave Houston
County a nine point cushion,
57-48.
Perry hit three of three
field goals to start the fourth
quarter, but it took them
three minutes to do it. In
the final five minutes of the
game, the Panthers were
three for 14 from the field.
Perry also had problems
with turnovers, giving away
the ball six times.
“That’s something we’ve
been working on in prac
tice,” Hardy said, “trying to
take care of the ball.”
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The Lady Hornets put
their best feet forward for
the home crowd. They fin
ished the game with only 13
turnovers.
“We’ve had that many in
one half. Why didn’t they
press us?” he said. “They
did trap us out of their 2-
1-2, but I thought (Mason)
Moreland handled the ball
pretty well.”
The Lady Hornets
improved to 3-6 while the
Lady Knights fell to 4-4.
As in the final minutes of
any basketball game, free
throws become an impor
tant issue. Perry missed five
of seven free throws in the
final half of the fourth quar
ter, but Houston County hit
all six of its free throws dur
ing the last two minutes of
the game.
“Vick King took care of
things for us,” Nix said of
his senior point guard, “We
started hitting our shots
in the second half. Ryan
Stallings’ three pointer real
ly picked us up.”
Both teams are going into
the Houston County Bear
Brawl with things to figure
out.
Because Houston County
went so deep into the football
playoffs, Nix is still working
his former football players
into the system. Fortunately,
he has nine seniors on his
12-man roster to help with
the transition.
Perry’s Hardy is trying to
get his young team some
experience. He has only two
returning varsity players
and only two seniors.
Perry plays Hiram at 5:30
p.m. Thursday and Houston
County faces Peach County
at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in
the boy’s bracket of the Bear
Brawl.
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