Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 10, 1991 TAG: 9102100032
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: D5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. LENGTH: Medium
"He's an excellent player. I probably should have recruited him," Cremins said Saturday.
Childress scored a season-high 28 points and sparked a second-half comeback as Wake Forest erased a 10-point deficit and beat Georgia Tech 86-74 in ACC action Saturday.
Childress played high school ball at Flint Hill Prep Academy, the same place that produced Dennis Scott, who helped carry the Yellow Jackets to the Final Four last season.
Childress scored six of his points in a 14-2 run midway through the second half, helping the Demon Deacons (13-7 overall, 4-4 in the ACC) win the first of two conference games they will play on successive days at home. They play host to Virginia today.
"I'm still trying to work on my game," Childress said. "They tell you this is not a freshman league and you can't come in and do some of the things that Rodney [Rogers, his classmate] and I have done. But once we came in here, coach [Dave] Odom told us from the jump that we could play. We're playing like juniors and seniors."
Wake Forest helped itself by hitting 17 straight free throws over two halves - and 20 of its last 21 - and by hitting 65.2 percent of its field goals in the second half. The Demon Deacons defense chipped in by holding Kenny Anderson scoreless in the second half after he scored 22 points in the first half.
"[Anderson] struggles at times with this team because he loses his comfort zone that he had last year," Cremins said. "I thought he played, overall, pretty well. He knows he did some bad things in the second half, and he just got a little antsy, but he's only a sophomore, and sophomores are going to do things like that."
Anderson missed all seven field goals he attempted in the second half, and Georgia Tech hit 36.1 percent of its field goals in the last 20 minutes.
Georgia Tech (13-8, 5-5) built 11-point leads three times in the first half and was up 52-42 after a 3-pointer by Bryan Hill with 17:24 left. A pair of 3-pointers by Childress and Derrick McQueen cut the lead to four.
After the Yellow Jackets stretched the lead back to 56-50 on a Malcolm Mackey follow shot with 14:29 remaining, Wake Forest began its run. Chris King hit a 12-footer and Childress scored four straight points in a 90-second span to tie the score at 56 with 11:20 left.
Matt Geiger scored on a short jumper to retain the lead for Georgia Tech at 10:45, but Wake Forest finished its decisive run, taking the lead for good on a steal and layup by Childress with 9:54 left.
Geiger scored 18 points for the Yellow Jackets.
GA. TECH MPFGFTRAFPT Mackey 384-131- 312149Hill 352- 20- 02225Geiger 278-102- 272418Barry 403-144- 424412Anderson 409-192- 234222Domalik 42- 40- 00016Newbill 161- 20- 03122Totals 20029-649-1129141974 WAKE FOREST MPFGFTRAFPT King 345-112- 331012Tucker 315- 66- 840116Rogers 346-105- 585417Siler 132- 50- 01334McQueen 331- 64- 42227Childress 358-138- 832328Doggett 10- 00- 00000Owens 150- 10- 03200Medlin 41- 10- 00012Totals 20028-5325-2824161386 Georgia Tech 44-30-74 Wake Forest 37-49-86
Three-point goals-Georgia Tech 7-20 (Hill 1-1, Geiger 0-1, Barry 2-10, Anderson 2-4, Domalik 2-4), Wake Forest 5-14 (Rogers 0-1, Siler 0-2, McQueen 1-3, Childress 4-8). Turnovers-Georgia Tech 16, Wake Forest 11. Technical fouls-None. Officials-Crowley, Higgins, Scott. Attendance-12,063.
by CNB