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North boys see Gilmer pull away late
By Alton Bridges
Sports Correspondent
The North Forsyth Raiders were
defeated by the visiting Gilmer
3 County Bobcats Tuesday
.£ evening, 60-46. The loss dropped
> the Raiders to 1-14 overall and 1-
£„ in Region 7-AA.
With less than three minutes left
£’3n the third quarter, the game was
s><tied at 40, but Gilmer scored the
-C* last 11 points of the period and
outscored the Raiders in the last
~:one, 9-6.
'The leading scorer for the
-• Raiders was Matt Horne, who
’• scored 16 points. Matt Greer
added nine points, Marc Shirley
'• had six, and Clayton Rhoads and
£ Smith Tailant had five points
“’/each. Robby Smith had four
; points and Bennett Mayfield had
L w one -
After the opening quarter, the
«'■ Raiders trailed by only one point,
15-14. Horne scored five points
and Greer scored four for the
Raiders. Smith had a 3-point play
on a field goal and a foul and
Tailant had a bucket in the quar
: ter.
* In the second quarter, North was
’ outscored by three points. Home
f '''scored six points in the quarter,
J Greer had five points, Shirley
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> £ need them did so tonight,” she
> i added. “I am really proud of the
t * way they played.”
Delana Warbington led the
Lady Raiders in scoring with a
career-high 12 points. Gaines
had 11 points and Stewart had
‘ ten.
Carlyle had nine, Lotspeich
eight, Hicks six and Bennett,
Kelley Dunn and Alicia Turner
. and two each. Also huge was the
fact that the Lady Raiders were
18-for-21 from the free throw
• line.
’ Gilmer opened the game with
« ‘ two straight buckets by Ashley
Z r Green and led at the end of the
I fC GIRLS from IB
-w<the ball well and took it to the
- - basket.”
Was there anything special the
* coach told his team at the half
I that led to the third-quarter blast?
> “I told them to think about their
; shots,” he said. “We had some
J good looks and executed well,
J but they just didn’t fall in. This
J half, they’re going to start drop
| ping."
.» “They had more intensity and
• more confidence,” he added.
; “We’ve been having some real
practices.”
; Local and Area Sports Activities
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; Georgia Magic
•
; The GA Magic girls basketball
; AAU/YOBA will be having on-
* going tryouts for ages 10 through
; 18 years.
Tryouts at Meadowcreek HS in
• Gwinnett County for ages 10-12
will begin Sunday, Jan. 17 for the
U-and-Under team (1 p.m.-3
pint.), and Sunday, Jan. 24 for the
J « A 10-and-Under (1 p.m.-3 p.m.) and
U » 12-and-Under (3 p.m.-5 p.m.)
teams.
four and Mayfield and Tailant. At
halftime, North was still in the
game and behind only 35-31.
In the third quarter, Rhoads had
a triple and Horne two field
goals. Shirley also had a bucket.
But in the last quarter, North
had only two field goals and they
Region 7-AA Standings (thru Tfrefi.)
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BmSL QusrgH
Cartersville 7-1 8-3
Pickens Co. 6-1 12-2
South Forsyth 5-2 5-10
Fannin Co. 6-3 8-5
Forsyth Central 5-3 6-8
White Co. 3-5 5-7
Gilmer Co. 3-5 4-8
North Forsyth 1-7 1-14
Lumpkin Co. 0-9 1-13
Giris:
Information not received, but South is 4-3 in the region
and thought to be fourth, North is 4-4 and thought to be
fifth and Central is 0-8. Pickens leads at 7-0, Fannin is 8-
1 and Cartersville 5-3. ;
first quarter, 12-11. Warbington
helped keep the Lady Raiders
within shouting distance with
six points in the quarter. Hicks
and Carlyle had two points each.
But in the second quarter,
North scored 13 points and their
defense held Gilmer to just six
points. Warbington again scored
six points and Gaines had four.
Turner had two points and
Lotspeich had one in the quarter.
At halftime, the Lady Raiders
led by six, 24-18.
In the third quarter, Gilmer
came back by outscoring North,
19-15. Stewart led North in
scoring in the quarter with six
It wasn’t just scoring that made
the game impressive, but Coffield
also added three assists and four
steals. Smith had seven rebounds
and four assists, while Hawkins
also had seven boards.
Central didn’t get off to a great
start, trailing 18-4 after a quarter,
but at least they were in double
digits at the half. They were out
pointed in the second, 16-10, to
trail 34-14.
Then they poured in their 21 to
Cartersville’s 20 in the third, cut
ting the gap to 54-35. The tally in
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Rowdies soccer
Spring 1999 registration with the
Forsyth Rowdies Soccer Club will
be held at the Forsyth County
Library on the following
Saturdays at the following times:
• Saturday, Jan. 16 from 10:30
a.m. -1 p.m.
»
were by Tailant and Rhoads.
Home and Smith had a free throw
to complete the scoring for
North.
North hit 11 of 19 shots from
the free throw line. North will
play region foe Lumpkin County
in Dahlonega Friday night.
points. Lotspeich had five and
Dunn and Hicks had two. With a
lead of 39-37 to begin the last
quarter, North took control of
the game.
With the home crowd cheering
them on, the Lady Raiders
exploded for 23 points and held
the Lady Cats to just 12 in the
last quarter.
Parker, who had 38 in Ellijay
Friday, led the Lady Bobcats in
scoring with 25 points and
Green had ten.
The Lady Raiders will travel to
Dahlonega and play the
Lumpkin County Lady Indians
on Friday night.
the final stanza was back in the
Lady Canes favor, but only by
13-10.
Melissa Bunce paced the visi
tors with 18 points, eight coming
in the decisive first quarter, and
six in the third as her team tried
to keep up. Kenya Butts was also
huge in the opening stanza, net
ting eight of her 11.
Central will try to keep building
momentum this weekend when
they host tough squads from
Fannin County (Friday) and
Lumpkin County (Saturday).
• Saturday, Jan. 23 from 10:30
a.m. -1 p.m.
• Saturday, Jan. 30 from 2:30
p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Programs for ages 3-16 will be
available. If you have questions
regarding the soccer programs,
call the Rowdies Voice Mail at
(770) 384-6093, option #2, and
leave a message. Age cut-off date
is August 1. The registration fee
of S6O is due at registration.
The Under-4 Mini Camp fee is
S4O.
Skyscraping
War Eagle Justin White (left)
and a Fannin County player
go high for the tip in last
Friday’s game. Josh
Campbell (22) awaits the
result.
Photo/Lori Stegall
SF GIRLS from IB
are going to be playing better and
be more consistent.”
Both War Eagles basketball
teams will host Region 7-AA
opponent Gilmer County Friday
night and then have key games at
Fannin County Saturday.
SF BOYS from IB
the best-called game we have
played in in the past couple of
seasons, anyway.”
Both War Eagles basketball
teams will host Region 7-AA
opponent Gilmer County Friday
night, then travel to Fannin Co.
for key games Saturday.
FC BOYS from IB
18 points. Fezzia added 13.
Freshman Micah Owings paced
Central’s effort with 12 points,
while Jeremy Boles had 11, John
Poulos seven, and Jon Payne and
Seth Cole six each.
Cole also had six assists, while
Travis Elmore and Bobby
Donofrio led the rebounding
effort with six each.
Actually, it was Cartersville’s
dominance of the boards that
allowed them to stay as close as
they did (24-20) in the first half,
as they picked up 19 offensive
rebounds.
In the second half, they were
held to three, but their shooting
improved so much that - helped
by a Central drought - they were
able to build an eight-point lead.
The story wasn’t so much the
Dogs losing in GT, but that it ever
got to that situation in the first
place.
But first, it was Donofrio com
ing out of the locker room to
begin the second half with a short
jumper and then a putback of his
own miss, giving Central their
biggest lead at 28-20.
It quickly evaporated. Dietsch
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Correction
Roebuck was the first
Lady Eagle to 1000
Katie Vaughan may be the
South Forsyth girls’ basketball
all-time scoring leader, but she
had a predecessor in the 1000-
point club as a Lady War Eagle.
Amy Roebuck, one of trailblaz
ers in SFHS sports as the school
opened in 1989-90, was the first
to achieve such a distinction. A
1993 graduate, Roebuck was an
outstanding varsity player for
four years under head coach
Doug Fields.
Her career included a 13 point
per game average in her junior
started it by burying a 3-pointer
and he and Fezzia personally
outscored the Dogs 18-3 through
the beginning of the fourth quar
ter. Cartersville had a 34-31 lead
at the break and when Wayne
Henderson hit a free throw early
in the fourth, it was 39-31 - and
Central had gone 12 possessions
with only a Poulos 3-point play to
show for it.
But give the Dogs credit - they
hardly folded. First, there was an
Owings jumper, then a Boles
triple that closed it to 41-36 with
4:45 left. Then Brent Howell lift
ed the Dogs with a big putback
off the bench to make it 42-38.
Owings then closed it to 44-43
at the 2:39 mark after nailing a
three, then getting fouled the next
time down and making 2-of-3 free
throws.
Two quick baskets by the Canes
imperiled the comeback, but
Boles drained another three and
then made a steal that led to a
Cole layup to finally tie the game
at 48 with :58 left.
The Central defense, powerful in
many instances during the night,
quashed the ensuing inbounds
year and when all was said and
done, she had rung up 1,020
points in action as a Lady War
Eagle.
Os course, Roebuck was also a
leader on the great early softball
teams at South under Johnny
Tallant, setting numerous school
records and winning three team
MVP awards.
Now Roebuck is teaching in the
Forsyth County School system
and has assisted Tallant
the last two years. The Forsyth
County News regrets the error.
play and the Canes threw it away.
The Dogs ran the clock to :16.8,
called time, then finally got off a
shot from Boles.
It missed, but it appeared the
Canes committed a foul before
the buzzer, but none was called.
Cartersville took control of the
OT when they got two Lavada
Johnson free throws and a Dietsch
baseline jumper in the first 2:30 -
while Central got nothing. But the
game wasn't over.
Poulos was fouled twice on the
next two Bulldog possessions,
closing it to 52-50, but a valuable
rebound was lost after a miss and
Johnson had two more free throws
with five seconds left. An unex
pected final chance at the line saw
another Poulos free throw, but a
miss that missed the rim and was
turned over to the Canes.
Brett Ward hit two free throws
and Cole buried a meaningless
three at the buzzer.
Central will try to stay close to
the leaders, leading up to the first
Pickens game, with games this
weekend vs. Fannin County
(Friday) and Lumpkin County
(Saturday).