Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, November 22, 1993 TAG: 9311220046
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ANDREA KUHN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Ferrum stayed with Roanoke for the first 10 minutes, before bowing to the Maroons 97-76 in the championship game of the Barker Realty-Salem Bank and Trust Tipoff Tournament at the Bast Center.
In the consolation game, Ben Dittmar scored 21 points to lead Marietta to a 97-81 victory over Bethany (W.Va.).
Senior forward Hilliary Scott had 25 points and 11 rebounds for Roanoke and was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. Quincy Quick, who was named to the all-tournament team, led Ferrum with 24 points.
The Panthers were sharp at the start, taking a 12-7 lead in the first five minutes. But in the next five, the Maroons charged back, took the lead and then saw the score tied four times.
Ferrum's Chuck Ellis scored with 10 minutes, 10 seconds left in the half to tie it at 22, the last points the Panthers would score until the 4-minute, 22-second mark.
Roanoke (2-0) took control by scoring the next 19 points, 11 by Scott.
"We were picking up the press and getting open shots," said Scott, a preseason All-America and Player of the Year candidate. "When they started to fall, it really helped out as far as confidence."
"It was just a three- or four-minute span when everything went right for us," said coach Page Moir, whose Maroons led 56-41 at halftime.
The Panthers came back with renewed focus in the second half and quickly closed the gap. Paul Rivera made it 60-50 on a layup with 17:35 to play. The 5-foot-8 sophomore finished with 11 points, eight in the second half.
Quick cut the lead to seven with 15 minutes left, but that's as close as Ferrum would get. Roanoke went on a 23-10 run to put away the Panthers.
"We went out and cut it to seven and needed a basket desperately but couldn't get it," said Bill Pullen, Ferrum's coach. "We just didn't have enough left. . . . Our game plan was down the drain and we were just chasing them. That wears you down."
Said Moir: "We started shooting the ball well. They gave us some 15-footers on the outside because they were trying to close off the inside."
Joe Schrantz and Bryant Lee combined to score 21 points in the second half for the Maroons. Schrantz finished with 15; Lee had 21 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks. He was named to the all-tournament team, along with Roanoke's Kevin Martin, who had 16 points.
Completing the team were Marietta's James Dempsey, who had 27 points in the tournament, and Ferrum center Albert Hobbes, who had 28 points and 17 rebounds in two games.
by CNB