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THE COMMERCE (GA) NEWS, WEDNESDAY. TANUARY 2, 2008 - PAGE 13A
Brandon Garrett drives upcourt during Thursday’s game
against Oconee. He led the Eagles with 26 points Saturday
against Oglethorpe County. Photo by Brandon Reed
— Eagle Men Win 1 Of 2
Cont. from Page 12A
fore Christmas,” said coach
Brian Turner. “Oconee County
is a solid ball team, and they did
a super job of moving the ball
around. We got caught stand
ing still too many times, and
giving up too many easy shots.
We gave up too many layups, no
rotating back, and that was the
whole key to the game.”
“We didn’t play aggressive
enough on defense. Oconee
County shot the ball extremely
well against us, and we never
could find that extra gear to play
the game the way we wanted to.
The bottom line is, we just didn’t
play with a lot of energy on de
fense,” he said.
On Friday, the Eagles faced
Towers, falling 73-70. Towers
jumped out to an early lead,
but the Eagles cut the lead in a
game that went back and forth
the whole way. The Eagles had
a chance to tie the game at the
end, but missed the three point
shot when the ball hit off the
front of the rim.
Gilbert led in scoring, with 23
points, with Brandon Garrett
scoring 20 and Rucker 11.
The Eagles bounced back Sat
urday to end play with a big win,
defeating Oglethorpe County
90-49.
Garrett led in scoring with 26
points, while Gilbert chilled in
19.
The Eagles return to region
play Friday night, as they’ll
host Rabun County, with tip-off
scheduled for 7 p.m. Turner says
the goal is to get Rabun to play
an Eagle-style game.
“The people I’ve talked to
about Rabun County say they
like to play up-tempo some, and
a couple of other teams in the re
gion like to do the same thing,”
he said.
The Eagles will host Stephens
County Saturday at 4 p.m.
Eagle Wrestlers
Finish Eighth At
Winder Tourney
The East Jackson varsity
wrestling team had a good
outing in the Beef O’Brady’s
tournament last weekend at
Winder-Barrow High School,
finishing eighth out of 19
teams, with three wrestlers
placing.
Junior Shane Moore took
second in the 125 lb. weight
class, junior Luis Verduzco
finished fourth in the 145 lb.
class, and senior Michael Holt
took third in the 215 lb. class.
Coach Tommy Palmer said
he was pleased with the im
provement over their last tour
nament performance.
“We finished in the top ten
in a pretty good tournament,”
he said. “The kids are still
improving, and that’s the big
thing. We’ve still got a young
team, with a couple of expe
rienced guys leading the way.
The young ones are still mak
ing improvements and win
ning matches.”
Palmer pointed to some of
the younger wrestlers, such as
Charles Hulett, Zak Venable,
Luke Ruoff, Drew Hunter, Jus
tin Griffith, Josh Kesler and
Tim Franklin, who did well
through the consolation brack
ets in the tournament.
“They did well, which helped
the team overall,” Palmer said.
“They’re starting to win more
matches when they need to.”
Palmer said he’s also pleased
with the improvement he’s
seen in the team.
“We’re doing well for a young
team,” he said. “We still need
to put together some more
combinations of moves that
we don’t have all tied together
yet. But they’re doing pretty
well. We just need to fine-tune
on some, and correct some
things on some others. That
will keep us improving.”
Palmer said this tournament
helped determine how far the
wrestlers have come since the
beginning of the season, and
to see how they would per
form up against some of the
athletes in
the area in
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“This gives
us a good indication of where
we’re at, and what we need to
work on to get prepared for
that,” he said.
The Eagles have one more
tournament to hone their
skills before those duals, the
Amicalola Classic at Dawson
County High School this Fri
day and Saturday. Palmer says
it will give the team more of
a look at what they’ll be up
against at the team duals.
“We’ll see what our match
ups are going to be, and have
a look at different people in
their weight classes in our
area that we have yet to com
pete with.”
The Amicalola Classic is
scheduled to comprise 23
teams, including Commerce
from Class A and the num
ber one ranked team in Class
AAA, Gilmer County.
The action begins at 5:00 Fri
day afternoon and will resume
at 9:00 Saturday morning at
Dawson County High School
located outside of Dawson-
ville.
Emma Turner takes a shot during Thursday’s game against
Oconee County. She had nine rebounds against the Warriors
and 11 against North Hall later in the tournament.
Photo by Brandon Reed
- EJCHS Girls
Cont. from Page 12A
“We have really started to con
centrate on the defensive end of
the court and simply focusing
on playing hard for an entire 32
minutes, working on our consis
tency,” said East Jackson coach
Amy Larimer. “Callie Moore and
Bralee Griffin have stepped up
their individual play on the de
fensive end and I have started
to see more fight and aggressive
ness in our overall team play. I
believe we are ready to move
into the most important part of
the season which is subregion
play.”
The Lady Eagles will return to
action this weekend, as host of
Rabun County Friday, then travel
to Stephens County High School
in Toccoa Saturday.
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