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2B ♦ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2008 RUN From page fB at 51-50. The guard also made three foul shots in a row during a technical situ ation against the visitors. Despite Perry’s struggles in shooting over the zone defense, Kendrick made the home crowd forget all about that with back-to-back 3- pointers. All eight of Kendrick’s fourth-period points came in succession for his team. Senior Michael Walker added a trey in a stretch where Perry outscored Americus- Sumter 14-3. Perry also made 12 out of 15 foul shot attempts in the fourth. Americus-Sumter missed six from the stripe in that same span. ' It took several minutes for the gathered crowd to get into this game due to the sloppy play from both sides. Even two nice assists from McGhee - a no-looker to Jones plus another one to Jones against the press - did little to spark excitement. A length-of-the-floor throw from Kendrick to Jones woke things up and gave Perry a 12-6 lead. The six Americus-Sumter points came off ball-han dling turnovers. Perry found little offensive success as the quarter ended, and the T in 4 * Brandon Scott goes in for a layup. ENI/Gary Harmon Head Coach Jody Dean talks to the players during a timeout. a^Wyf»“—" -■" ' ■ ,■■' •"■•n „. ' ' _._ . ... .. *» ' J,faS S2&.. ...v W - _ .:i£L ... a:.! :, -^^R. :£!&., J.....~..~. - Sft. — Geo Stotts drives to the basket for a score. * 1 "■ 1 * Ik~—/B m m P 11 r | m ~£lm jaJTR 4. Jr* fMM , > Y'JhfYtf"** , VI ‘ iQ%WB J m *lf M f * - -3*. —t..E. ENI/Gary Harmon Lady Panther Jasmine Davis goes up for the rebound against an Americus defender Friday at Perry. visitors closed it on a 9-2 run with a four-point play at 4.2 seconds on the clock. PERRY GIRLS FMi 57-41 The Perry High girls bas ketball team never got its offense on track Friday at home, falling to Americus- Sumter County for the sec ond time this month. The 2-6 Lady Panthers got 13 points, three steals and two blocks from Kenisha Wilson and 10 points from Lay Lay Rountree. Tiffany James and Tae McGhee each made 3-point ers in the opening quarter, but with Americus-Sumter’s quickness to the offensive glass and points off take aways the visitors led 15-8 after one quarter. A 12-0 run for Americus-Sumter started the second, Wilson breaking the streak with a stick-back (after her block in the other end) at 2:50. ENI/Gary Harmon ENI/Gary Harmon SPORTS Rountree ran the floor to get the final points of the half, Perry trailing 29-16. The guest Lady Panthers would then get eight of its first 10 third quarter points off turnovers. Rountree again had the last say of a period beating the quarter buzzer (51-24). Both Rountree and Jasmine Davis scored off steals in the fourth, and Wilson put in two offensive rebounds. f ' \ / yl&xfptp.y »* « <v , » 1 ' Up M ENI/Gary Harmon Houston County’s Brandon Davey goes up for a rebound in the team’s Bear Brawl championship game against Campbell Tuesday at Houston County. TOURNEY From page iB impact his game. Overall, the Bears cooled down, and the Spartans reeled off eight in a row. Campbell scored after blocking a shot at the 26-second mark, and the third ended with the Bears clinging to a 55-54 advan tage. Stotts gave the Houston crowd some inspired basket ball early in the fourth. He got an assist to Nunn inside and recovered a blocked shot to score with behind-the back dribbling. Campbell would jump ahead for the first time in the half, 60-59, at 6:03. The Bears’ outside game was not quite as efficient down the stretch. Stanton did give Houston the lead back right away connecting from a foot beyond the line, but Campbell, getting the second shots Davey denied when he patrolled the paint, went back ahead 64-62. Stotts, following in anoth er miss, had the Bears with in one, 70-69, with less than two minutes to go. Houston County had no foul shot attempts in the fourth to 16 for the Spartans, but the ~ ~— - -■ MT -> ' ■ /. ‘ ■ ' " ■ A iihp’- : ' '? " -v^. _ -■ / ? .• ■ < ENI/Gary Harmon Perry’s Lay Lay Rountree goes in for a basket visitors made just nine. The misses didn’t matter, how ever, as the Bears failed to rebound two in the last 20 seconds with the deficit just two points. Let BodyTec Fitness Club help. Drop by today to pick up your membership gift certificate. What a perfect Christmas present: The gift of health. Not a gym person, that’s ok, we are an authorized dealer of Bodyguard Fitness Equipment. Stop by today and check out what we can do for you! 1030 Bdll Street (Douintoum Perry) 987-8516 m 9 Visit us online at www.bodytecfitnessclub.com HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL Aged Hand-cut Steaks WOmMaGS. m Cult 13* ♦ 0074M77 rBODYGUARD urunv. hodyguarfifittuiM.com (7 1946 jmimL.