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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2010
THE JACKSON HERALD
PAGE 5B
Prep Basketball
Moving on:
Dragons welcome
Westminster tourney
By Ben Munro
BY TUESDAY, Jefferson
will have had 11 days to pon
der its loss to Jackson County
when it opens play in the
Westminster Holiday Classic.
The Dragons hope to work
that defeat out of their sys
tem during the post-Christmas
tournament
in Atlanta.
“I hope
our kids
haveleamed
something
from that,”
coach
Bolling
DuBose said of the loss.
“We're looking forward to the
tournament.”
Jefferson begins play
Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. against
Paideia, a private, Class A
school out of Atlanta. The
Dragons play again Wednesday
and Thursday.
Jefferson’s opening-round
foe features a point guard,
Kennan Palmore, who aver
ages 25 points a game.
“It will be a tough first-
round game,” DuBose said.
“Hopefully, we'll improve on
some of the things we’re not
doing well.”
The rest of the tournament
field includes host Westminster,
Brookstone, Pace Academy,
Wesleyan, Lovett and Grady.
Wesleyan won the Class A title
last year and is ranked no.
1 this year. Pace Academy is
Class A’s no. 5 ranked team.
“Every team in that tourna
ment is good,” DuBose said.
The veteran coach hopes his
team can step up its play in a
few areas after some sluggish
play.
“We've got to defend bet
ter and force bad shots and
SUPPLYING THE
OFFENSE
Austin Thompson scored
17 points in Jefferson’s
loss to Jackson County.
Photo by Ben Munro
start getting on the boards,”
DuBose said.
Jefferson then gets four
days off after the tournament
before resuming subregion
play against Hart County Jan.
4. DuBose thinks the caliber
and timing of this tournament
will help.
“I like to play in a tourna
ment after Christmas because
you’re more ready to move
into your subregion games,”
DuBose said. “You don’t have
as long a layoff.”
DuBose said his team has
to be ready for Hart County,
which he feels is the team
to beat in the Region 8-AA
South subregion. Adding to the
pressure of that game is that
Jefferson now has a subregion
loss after falling to Jackson
County.
“We can’t afford to lose any
more (subregion games) right
now,” DuBose said.
COMING UP
•@Westminster
Holiday
Tournament,
Dec. 28-30.
Recap: JCCHS 56, JHS 54
Ai/»o 111*0175111 • I ns pi re d Jackson County wins
* CllIlIIUl u ^ ® C1AI# cross-town showdown with Jefferson
COMING UP BIG
Jackson County’s Jarvis Shaw scored 14 points in the Panthers’ Friday
victory over Jefferson. Photo by Ben Munro
By Ben Munro
N THE end, Friday’s Jackson
County-Jefferson game came down
to a simple matter of desire. The
Panthers, apparently, had more of it.
Jackson County scored its biggest
victory in recent memory, beating no.
9 Jefferson 56-54 in a renewal of the
basketball series between the schools.
“Like coach said in the beginning it
was, ‘who wanted it more?” Jackson
County guard Alex Crawford said.
“I'm not saying they didn't want it, but
I felt like down the stretch, I felt like
through the game, we still had it.”
Jefferson coach Bolling DuBose
offered a similar assessment.
“I think you’ve got to give Jackson
County credit, because their kids
wanted it more than we did,” he said.
Especially Ben Weaver. The Panthers’
senior center scored Jackson County’s
final four points, including a go-ahead
bucket with 1:35 to put Jackson County
up 56-54. Weaver then pulled down
two key rebounds down the stretch as
Jackson County upended Jefferson.
The Dragons — winners of
three straight — had an oppor
tunity to save themselves at the
end, but missed two three-point
attempts in their final possession.
“If we would have hit that shot, we
would have gotten the win, but we would
not have deserved to win,” DuBose said.
Instead, Jackson County play
ers stormed the court as the final
buzzer sounded, savoring the biggest
win yet in its turnaround season.
A big part of that turnaround
has been Kolin Zimmer, who
drained five three-pointers to lead
Jackson County with 19 points.
“He's just a great shooter,”
Jackson County coach Britt
Beaver said. “He really is.”
Jarvis Shaw added 14 points,
including a big three in the third quar
ter that helped the Panthers take a
45-42 edge into the final quarter.
The victory was Jackson County's
sixth in seven games — it then went
on to beat Oconee County the follow
ing night — following a 0-4 start.
And a very special victory at that.
“Jefferson is a huge win for us,”
Beaver said. “Because it's a great
team, and DuBose is a great coach.
That’s a good win for us.”
Beaver said both teams’ defenses did a
good job disrupting each other’s offenses.
The coach said he thought his
team managed to effectively slow
down Jefferson's uptempo attack
to put it in a position to win.
“It got down to kind of a street brawl
there — a great rivalry. That’s a great
basketball game there,” Beaver said.
DuBose said his team strayed from
its game plan against a good team.
“We did a very poor job of getting
into our offense,” DuBose said. “We
settled for a lot of three-point shots.”
Then there were other intangibles:
DuBose said his team simply got
out-played and out-coached.
“And that’s my fault,” DuBose said.
Austin Thompson paced Jefferson
with 17 points, including four
three-pointers in the first half as
Jefferson led 31-30 at the break.
Jefferson tied the nip-and-tuck
ball game at 54 late with a bucket
from Chris Jackson but went the
final 2:08 without scoring.
“Both teams have 32 min
utes,” DuBose said. “You make
things happen or you don't.”
Beaver attributed his team's
win to simple heart and effort.
“That's the big thing with these
kids,” Beaver said. “It's that never-
say-die. They just keep working.
And I’m so excited for these kids
.... Because they've been told for
four years, if you keep working
hard, good things will happen.”
It will be a while before the teams
see each other again. Jefferson and
Jackson County won’t rematch until
Feb. 11 in Jefferson, which will be
the subregion finale for both squads.
“We get them at our gym at the end
of the season ... We'll see if we’ve
learned anything by then,” DuBose said.
Panthers
continued from page IB
a couple bad breaks (but) we’re
finally together as a team, which
is the main thing. If we don’t
play together as a team, that
team (Jefferson) would have
beat us by 30. That was big.”
Jackson County takes its win
ning ways into the holidays. The
Panthers are off until Dec. 30
when they face Stephens County.
Jackson County’s most
recent victory came over
Oconee County Saturday
with the Panthers beating the
Warriors 48-43 to avenge a
65-55 loss earlier this year.
“The guys, again, they’re
just going to fight through it
... They’re just convinced this
year that whatever it takes to
get the W, they’ll do it,” fourth-
year coach Britt Beaver said.
The Panthers didn’t let the
emotion of their win over
Jefferson the previous night
hinder them as they avoided
a letdown against Oconee
County, getting 19 points from
Kolin Zimmer in the victory.
Jackson County hit 9-of-
11 free throws in the last
2:18 to clinch the win. Jarvis
Shaw added 11 points.
“It was ugly, but you know
what? They fought hard,”
Beaver said. ‘To come back
after that night and get another
W, I can't say enough about
the kids,” Beaver said.
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Not only is Jackson County
now 7-5, it’s a 7-5 team
despite playing a pretty bru
tal schedule through the first
12 games of the season.
The Panthers played their
first seven games on the
road and then made a tough
road trip to Hart County this
past Tuesday night. Jackson
County has played just four
home games this season.
That’s a point Beaver has defi
nitely made to his resilient team.
“I said, ‘guys, you are pre
pared for anything,"’ Beaver
said. “You played seven away
games and not just any away
games — two and a half hour
bus rides, a really hard schedule.
Anything that we didn’t play in
the region or subregion was a
Class AAA school, and it was
away. So they've had a tough
schedule. They’re really looking
forward to some rest. I’ve got a
couple of guys really banged up
that need to get off their legs.”
Jackson County goes head
long into its subregion schedule
when January starts, but the
Panthers will have confidence
in Region 8-AA play thanks to
their big win over Jefferson.
“I feel like we showed
up as a team and did what
we know how to do and we
established ourselves in the
region,” Crawford said.
But for now, Jackson County
is enjoying seeing its hard
work pay off. There's a lot
of confidence in the Panther
locker room after 12 games.
“We didn’t quit,” Beaver said.
“A lot of kids would have quit.
I mean the way we’ve gotten
beat down and as hard as they've
worked, a lot of kids wouldn’t
do that. They'd just quit and give
it up, but these guys have stayed
true and we haven't changed
what we’ve done. We've stayed
true to the course and they’re
seeing the benefits and they just
feel good about themselves.”
JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
SCHEDULE OF APPROVED LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX PROJECTS
YEAR ENDED JUNE 30. 2010
AMOUNT
AMOUNT
ORIGINAL
CURRENT
EXPENDED
EXPENDED
ESTIMATED
ESTIMATED
IN CURRENT
IN PRIOR
PROJECT
PROJECT
COST (1)
COSTS (2)
YEAR (3)
YEARS (3)
STATUS
(1) Paying all or a portion of the debt service on
outstanding Scries 2005 General Obligation
Bonds previously issued. $
10.000,000.00 $
13.844,941.52 $
3.461.885.00 $
10,383,056.52
Ongoing
All Projects Below
(2) Acquiring, constructing and equipping new
school buildings and other buildings of
facilities useful or desirable in connection
therewith.
53,015,000.00
53,015,000.00
0.00
16.864,915.33
Ongoing
(3) acquiring new school equipment,
(4) adding to, renovating, repairing, improving,
and equipping existing school buildings or
facilities useful or desirable in connection
0.00
1,227,280.09
Ongoing
therewith, and
1,956,493.41
612,919.60
Ongoing
(5) acquiring a portion of a psychocducational
facility.
91,351.59
603,355.37
Ongoing
(6) acquiring land, and
(7) acquiring any property necessary or
0.00
0.00
Ongoing
desirable therefore, both real and personal.
0.00
0.00
Ongoing
$
63,015,000.00 $
63,015,000.00 $
5.509,730.00 $
29,691,526.91
(1) The School District's original cost estimate as specified in the resolution calling for the imposition of the Local Option Sales Tax
(2) The School District's current estimate of total cost for the project(s). Includes all cost from project inception to completion.
(3) The voters of Jackson County approved the imposition of a 1% sales tax to fund the above projects and retire associated debt.
Amounts expended for these projects may include sales tax proceeds, state, local property taxes and/or other funds over
the life of the projects.