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THE MADISON COUNTY (GA) JOURNAL. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3. 2009 — PAGE 3B
Madison
County Lady
Raider guard
Samantha
LaZear
drives to the
hoop during
basketball
action last
week. LaZear
scored 11
points in
Madison
County’s
victory over
Jonesboro
and eight
Tuesday in
its win over
Salem. Ben
Munro/staff
Girls’ basketball.. . continued from page IB
a C+,” Lampe said. "We're getting good shots,
but we’re just not dropping them consistently
yet.”
Madison County has improved from the free
throw line, however, hitting 12-of-16 attempts
against Salem in its best night from the charity
stripe so far this season.
The Lady Raiders now seek their fourth-straight
victory when they return to action Friday against
what should be an improved Monroe Area outfit.
A night later, the Lady Raiders host
Brookwood, an up-tempo high-scoring team.
Madison County then plays Tuesday against
a Heritage team that lost four of its five starters
from last year's squad.
Lampe hopes to see the same kind of defense
he saw Tuesday night as the Lady Raiders move
forward.
“Salem truly got frustrated,” Lampe said. “They
had nowhere to go. They couldn't score. The only
stuff they got was really junk stuff.”
•MCHS 58, Jonesboro 32 (Nov. 24): Kayla
Freeman picked a good night to have her biggest
offensive game of the young season.
Freeman tallied 21 points in last Tuesday’s
(Nov. 24) 58-32 victory over Jonesboro in
Danielsville as Madison County went 2-0 in its
own tip-off tournament.
“She definitely picked it up when needed,”
coach Dan Lampe said.
But Lampe was more impressed with
Freeman's defensive effort.
“She probably got three or four steals in that
game just being on help-side defense taking away
the lob pass,” he said.
Coming off a lackluster victory over Newton
County, the Lady Raiders only trailed twice
briefly against Jonesboro (2-1) - both in the first
half - in an otherwise dominating effort.
“I felt it was almost due to our defense,” Lampe
said. ‘The first two games I felt we were laying
back and letting people do what they wanted to
do offensively ... This game we came out and
dictated what we wanted to do.”
Led by Freeman’s 14 second-half points, the
Lady Raiders outscored the Lady Cardinals 35-17
over the final two quarters to claim an easy win
over a team that went 30-2 last year and reached
the Class AAAA Final Four.
“I think that sometimes, our group needs some
body to get up for,” Lampe said. "It’s not good
that that has to be the way, but it’s good that when
it is a big game, they show up.”
Madison County got a boost from its backcourt
with Sam LaZear adding 11 points and Molly
Glaze scoring seven, including two three-pointers.
Glaze’s three-pointer at the 4:01 in the first
quarter was the Lady Raiders’ first of the season.
Her second, coming with 1:45 left in the first
half, opened up a 21-13 lead for Madison County.
“Our sophomores really scored well,” Lampe
said. “Our seniors were in foul trouble for most of
the night, so I was really impressed to see that...
that bodes well for the future.”
The Lady Raiders, who led 23-15 at the half,
built a 35-24 edge after three quarters and ended
the game with an 18-4 run in the fourth quarter to
turn the game into a rout.
Freeman scored nine of her 21 points in the
fourth quarter.
Madison Co. 58, Jonesboro 32 (Nov. 24)
JHS 8 7 9 8 - 32
MCHS 9 14 12 23-58
Scorers: Freeman 21, LaZear 11, Glaze 7,
Arnold 5, Smith 5, Fleming 4, Coberly 2,
Moon 2, Whieldon 1
Madison Co. 56, Salem 39 (Dec. 1)
SHS881112 — 39
MCHS 13 13 16 14 — 56
Scorers: Freeman 14, Smith 12, Arnold 12,
LaZear 8, Glaze 4, Chappell 4, Brown 2
Wrestling .. . continued from page IB
class. I guess everybody else is doing the same
thing, too.”
Houston didn't want to single out any individual
to this point but did praise his nucleus of 11 th grade
wrestlers.
“That whole junior class is looking pretty good,”
Houston said. “We’ve just still got a long way to
go.”
Madison Co. 69, Cedar Shoals 12 (Nov. 20)
Winners: Max Nash, 119; Cody Phillips (125),
Colton Phillips (130), Caleb McCain (135), Kyle
Himsl (140), Isaac Ruiz (145), Kyle Bates (152),
Steven Resby (171), Michael Robertson (189),
Kyle Gordon (215)
Lumpkin Co. 55, Madison Co. 24 (Nov. 24)
Winners: Max Nash (119), Cody Phillips (125),
Isaac Ruiz (145), Kyle Bates (152)
Franklin Co. 40, Madison Co. 39 (Nov. 24)
Winners: Max Nash (119), Cody Phillips (125),
Jesse Truelove (140), Isaac Ruiz (145), Kyle Bates
(152), Steven Resby (171), Michael Robertson
(189)
Boys’ basketball.. . continued from page IB
Madison County’s Bradley Raines has scored 42 points in
his last two games as the Red Raiders have started 4-0.
Ben Munro/staff
held all its foes below 60 points
this year.
Though he said the offense
must improve by Christmas,
Crouse is trying to focus on what
his team can control right now.
“Right now, what’s our advan
tage? We can play good defense,”
Crouse said. “And our defense is
getting better."
Offensively, Madison County
is getting points from multiple
sources, even if it's not function
ing to its full potential.
The team saw another scorer
step to the forefront Tuesday as
T.J. McGuire scored 20 points
and grabbed 10 rebounds to key
the Red Raider win.
McGuire, who became the
fourth different Red Raider play
er to register a double-double in
as many games, scored 12 points
during Madison County’s pivotal
second quarter as the Red Raiders
increased an 18-14 edge to 38-23
at the end of the first half.
“He just came out and gave us
a ton of energy and made some
great shots and helped us get a lot
of steals,” Crouse said.
Patrick McCrary, who’s aver
aging 18.75 points a game, added
18 points and nine rebounds to
bolster the Red Raider effort.
Bradley Raines also had a big
night, scoring 16 points. He has
42 in his last two games.
Madison County had a large
enough lead to play all 13 players
who dressed out.
‘Three out of our four games,
we’ve played everybody on our
roster,” Crouse said.
Madison County still had 21
turnovers, "which is way too
many,” Crouse said, but it did
manage 17 assists and is averag
ing nearly 20 a game this sea
son.
‘That's a big number for us,”
Crouse said. “I like it when we’re
getting the ball moved around.”
Another number Crouse likes?
Twenty-three offensive rebounds
against Salem.
‘That's huge for us,” he said.
Crouse stressed that his team
must have a good week of prac
tice to prepare for a tough Friday
region matchup with Monroe
Area, a team that upset Rockdale
County last year and returns sev
eral players this year.
Madison County then faces
Brookwood Saturday, a Class
AAAA team that possesses some
quality guards, Crouse said. The
Red Raiders then return to region
play Tuesday against Heritage,
which graduated a lot of its play
ers from last year but maintains
talent in the backcourt and size
inside.
“The next three games are
going to be really tough — two
region games and one non-region
game against a really good team
out of Class AAAAA,” Crouse
said. "So we've got a lot of work
to do over the next week.”
•Madison Co. 50, Dacula 43
(Nov. 24): Behind 26 points from
Bradley Raines, the Red Raiders
edged Dacula 50-43 last Tuesday
(Nov. 24) in Danielsville to move
to 3-0.
Madison County led from start
to finish to finish its tip-off tour
nament at 2-0.
Madison County did so despite
having Patrick McCrary and Stan
Maxwell in foul trouble for large
parts of the game.
“We had a host of players in
foul trouble so we relied a lot on
our bench that night, and they
came in and provided quality
minutes,” Crouse said.
Raines, who scored 11 points
in the fourth quarter, hit a pair
of free throws with 50 seconds
left to give the Red Raiders an
insurmountable 48-37 lead as
Madison County knocked off the
Class AAAA Falcons.
McCrary paced Madison
County early, scoring seven of
the Red Raiders’ 11 first-quarter
points. He finished with 11.
Madison County led by as
many as 11 points in the second
quarter, but Dacula cut the lead
to 24-20 at the half and tightened
the margin to 29-28 after three
quarters.
But Raines opened the fourth
quarter by scoring off a put-back
and drawing a foul. Raines then
sank the free throw, completing
a three-point play that sparked
a 19-9 fourth quarter ran to put
Dacula away.
Raines went 12-of-15 from the
free throw line on the night, con
verting his final seven attempts.
“That was a big win for us,”
Crouse said. “Dacula has a really
good basketball team.”
MCHS 69, Salem 50
Scorers: McGuire 20, P.
McCrary 18, Raines 16, Maxwell
6, Burton 4, Cooper 2, T. McCrary
2, Robinson 1
MCHS 50, Dacula 43
DHS 8 12 8 15 — 43
MCHS 11 13 5 21 — 50
Scorers: Raines 26, P. McCrary
11, McGuire 5, Burton 4, Butler 2,
T. McCrary 2
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