Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 3, 1994 TAG: 9402030199
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By BOB TEITLEBAUM STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
After missing more than a month of action because of illness, Reynolds made his mark on the Roanoke Valley District boys' basketball race Wednesday night. The senior forward hit a 3-point shot with 32.5 seconds left for the decisive points in the Colonels' 57-54 victory over Patrick Henry at the Salem Civic Center.
"I knew when it left my hands that it felt good and would go in," said Reynolds, playing his second game since being sidelined late in December. "I may not be scoring the points I did last year, but I feel confident in my role on this team and I know what it takes to win."
Reynolds, who started on Fleming's Group AAA semifinalist team a year ago, gave the Colonels (9-4 overall, 3-2 in the district) a 55-54 lead.
Patrick Henry's Shannon Taylor, who scored a game-high 26 points, missed a short jumper and then was called for traveling on a follow shot. Forced to foul, the Patriots hacked Keith Hampton, who hit two free throws with 14.5 seconds left.
PH (9-4, 3-2) romped to a 17-6 lead in the first quarter as Fleming missed 13 of 18 field-goal attempts. The Patriots led 27-21 at intermission, but the Colonels' press wiped out that lead quickly.
William Fitzgerald's short jumper less than two minutes into the third quarter gave Fleming its first lead since early in the game as the Colonels went on top 29-27. In the final 10 minutes, 11 seconds, the teams never were separated by more than three points and there were 12 lead changes.
"We want to go to the full-court pressure," said Burrall Paye, Fleming's coach. "With sickness and missing players, we have to play cat-and-mouse and pick our times to use it."
Colonels point guard Derrick Hines, who scored nine points and had all four of his assists in the second half, thought about Fleming's triple-overtime loss to PH this season.
"We got down on ourselves. We had to realize we'd be back in the same situation as we were then if we lost," Hines said.
Taylor hit 12 of 22 field-goal attempts. Reynolds, who gave away weight and height to the PH star, was on him defensively.
"I guess I was in a zone and I could make everything go. On that last shot, I got pushed and prayed they'd call [a foul]," Taylor said of the traveling call that went against him.
Reynolds said, "He's so big and I knew I couldn't outmuscle him. So I tried to outquick him."
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