COLONELS CATCH EAGLES ON REBOUND

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 15, 1992                   TAG: 9202150263
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PHYLLIS A. FAIR SPORTSWRITER
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COLONELS CATCH EAGLES ON REBOUND
William Fleming doesn't have a very tall team, but the Colonels sure know how to get rebounds.
The Colonels outrebounded Franklin County 45-35 and defeated the Eagles 72-57 in a Roanoke Valley District boys' basketball Friday night at Fleming.
"We work awfully hard [at rebounding]," Fleming coach Burrall Paye said. "We got good rebounders, but we don't have the size."
Fleming (11-7 overall, 3-3 district) bolted ahead 10-2 before Franklin County called time out to regroup.
That strategy didn't work for the Eagles (3-15, 1-5) because William Fleming promptly went on an 11-4 run to establish their biggest lead of the game, 21-6, with 52 seconds to go in the quarter.
Jemare Crump helped get the Colonels off to their fast start, scoring 10 of his 15 points in the first quarter.
"Fleming was really hot. My kids had a chance to get blown out early," Eagles coach Calvin Preston said.
Franklin County underwent a personality change in the second quarter.
The Eagles came out aggressively and cut Fleming's lead to 34-29 when Jammie Hale got an offensive rebound and scored with 2:18 left in the first half.
Fleming closed the half with a 6-2 spurt to lead 40-31 at halftime.
"The first quarter we played more timid and the second more aggressive," Preston said.
That aggressiveness continued for most of the third quarter with the Eagles getting the rebounds and second-shot opportunities.
Franklin County outscored Fleming 12-7 and sliced its deficit to 47-42 when Chris Mattox sank a 3-pointer.
The Eagles gnawed away at the Colonels' lead in the fourth quarter. They pulled to 57-51 on a layup by Mattox, but Fleming answered.
Carlos Rhodes converted layups off full-court passes to extend the Colonels' lead back to 11 with 2:49 remaining.
The Eagles got no closer than 10 points.
"When they came back, we lost a lot of our continuity," Preston said. "We seemed to have forgotten how we got to within four points."
Paye said Franklin County cut into Fleming's lead because of the Eagles' defense and not because the Colonels became relaxed.
"I wouldn't say we were lackadaisical," he said. "They just put a lot of good pressure on the ball." \
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