Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, December 22, 1994 TAG: 9412230058
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Playing their fourth game in six nights, the Colonels were being frustrated by the Pioneers' use of screens until Hines suggested a man-to-man trap to pull them out of it. The ploy worked and the Colonels (7-1) eased ahead for good in the final two minutes of 69-62 non-district victory in Lynchburg.
Hines made all seven of his free throws on the way to scoring 13 points to go with six assists. The Colonels made 11 of 12 foul shots, going 6-for-6 in the fourth quarter. Keath Hampton went 5-for-8 from 3-point range, giving him nine triples in consecutive games. He finished with 23 points. James Stokes had a game-high 26 points.
John Taylor scored 17 for Heritage.
William Fleming (69)
Hines 13, Hampton 23, Copney 4, Crutchfield 3, Stokes 26.
Heritage (62)
Thompson 7, Tardy 6, Luther 1, Farmer 9, Lambert 2, Buck 12, Taylor 17, Jenkins 8.
William Fleming||14--15--21--19-69
Heritage||17--15--17--13-62
Three-point goals: Hampton 5, Thompson, Taylor, Crutchfield.
JV: NA
North Cross||96
Martinsville Chr.||73
Hal Johnson scored 31 points and Brian Whitaker added 28 as the Raiders blasted Martinsville Christian in the first round of the North Cross Invitational at North Cross
Johnson had 17 points in the second half to prevent any Martinsville Christian comeback and also grabbed 14 rebounds.
Whitaker helped North Cross (2-3) open up a 13-point halftime lead by scoring 17 of his 28 in the first half and finished the game hitting six of 11 3-point attempts.
Martinsville Christian (3-3) did cut the lead to 10 in the second half behind James Philpott, who scored 13 of his 16 in the second half. Chris Meeks led Martinsville Christian with 21 points and Junior Gravely added 15.
William Watkins had 17 points for North Cross, which will play Carlisle in the semifinals tonight at 8:30 p.m.
Martinsville Christian (73)
Philpott 16, Meeks 21, King 2, Te. Briton 9, To. Briton 3, Gravely 15, Bailey 2, Hairston 2
North Cross (96)
Watkins 17, Whitaker 28, Beatz 6, Crisofi 4, Johnson 31, Haga 4, Kelly 2, Prillaman 4
Martinsville Chr.||14--19--19--21-73
North Cross||20--26--17--33-96
Three-point goals: Philpott 2, Meeks 3, Te. Briton, To. Briton, Whitaker 6, Johnson 2, Watkins.
Roanoke Valley Chr.||68
Lynchburg Chr. Acad.||52
Richard Booth scored a team-high 17 points, dished out six assists and had five steals to lead Roanoke Valley Christian past Lynchburg Christian Academy in the first round of the North Cross Invitational basketball tournament at North Cross.
Booth scored nine of his 17 in the second quarter to help Roanoke Valley Christian (6-1, 2-0) take an 11-point halftime lead.
LCA cut the lead to six with less than three minutes to go, thanks to Ben Martin, who scored 12 of his game-high 20 points in the second half. But the Eagles hit seven of eight free throws in the fourth quarter to stave off the comeback.
Simon Foster added 15 points and Joe Surkamer chipped 13 for the Eagles, who will play Glenvar in the semifinals tonight at 7 p.m.
Lynchburg Christian Academy (52)
Campbell 9, Ferguson 8, Richardson 8, Soitt 4, Martin 20, Douglas 2
Roanoke Valley Christian (68)
Arbogast 9, Foster 15, Booth 17, Surkamer 13, Clarke 2, Jo.Hurt 2, Nester 6, Kingery 2, Anglin 2
Lynchburg Chr. Acad.||15---8--17--12-52
Roanoke Valley Chr.||16--18--14--20-68
Three-point goals: Richardson, Arbogast.
Franklin County||71
Martinsville||68
ROCKY MOUNT - Junior guard Brad McCall scored a career-high 20 points and Chad Foutz hit two free throws with seven seconds left as the Eagles handed Martinsville its first loss of the season in a non-district game.
McCall maded six of seven 3-pointers for the game and hit his first four to help Franklin County (4-1) open up a 19-point first-half lead.
The Bulldogs (6-1) managed to tie the score at 45 in the third quarter, but the Eagles then went on a 18-5 run to take a 63-50 lead.
Martinsville came back to cut the lead to 68-67 with less than 30 seconds left behind Manti Venable, who scored 11 of his team-high 18 in the second half and Michael Martin, who added nine of his 17 in the second half.
The Eagles then took a 71-68 lead after Foutz, who finished with 18 points, hit the two free throws with seven seconds left.
Michael Martin missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer that would have sent the game into overtime.
Carlos Holland added 17 points for Franklin County. Carlos Martin had 15 for the Bulldogs.
Martinsville (68)
Je. Wells 8, Talley 7, Jo. Wells 3, Venable 18, M. Martin 17, C. Martin 15
Franklin County (71)
Foutz 18, Hancock 10, McCall 20, Conklin 2, Nance 4, Holland 17
Martinsville||13--19--16--20-68
Franklin County||21--20--17--13-71
Three-point goals: Foutz, McCall 6, Holland, Jo. Wells
JV: 77-52 Franklin County.
Girls
William Fleming||44
Heritage||43
With host William Fleming trailing by one point, Felicia Manns drove in for the game-winning layup with 15 seconds left and the Colonels held off the Pioneers the rest of the way for the non-district victory.
The teams were separated by no more than three points the whole game. Manns finished with 16 points, Kelly Irving chipped in 15 and Revonda Barber added eight assists for Fleming (5-1).
Heritage (1-4) got 17 points from Lawonda Robey and four 3-pointers from Jaine McCoy.
Heritage (43)
Thompson 6, McCoy 12, Robey 17, Mallet 8, Robertson 0.
William Fleming (44)
Barber 4, Trent 7, Burwell 2, Irving 15, Manns 16.
Heritage||14---9--10--10-43
William Fleming||13---5--12--14-44
Three-point goals: McCoy 4, Robey.
JV: 67-14. William Fleming.
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