Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 8, 1995 TAG: 9502080097
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: AMHERST LENGTH: Medium
The Lancers' loss took a lot of the glitter off their game with Liberty on Friday. Amherst County (13-4 in the district and overall) must win all its games while Liberty loses them all to tie.
Staunton River (12-5, 12-5) is in a battle for second with 10 days left in the regular season.
Hunter Hoggatt hit two free throws with 18 seconds left to close the scoring. Staunton River's Jason Morgan missed a one-and-one with eight seconds left, but Mike Albritton's 3-point try for a tie missed.
Hoggatt led Staunton River with 25 points, Cornelius Foxx added 16 and Jeff English had 17. Staunton River led by 16 in the final period, but Amherst came back to take a one-point lead on two free throws by Richard Apperson, who had a game-high 27 points.
English drove the baseline and hit a jumper with 40 seconds left to put the Golden Eagles in front for good.
Staunton River had 18 field goals for the game and half of them were 3-point shots.
Giles 64
Radford 57
RADFORD - Anthony Myers and Josh Stephens were a combined 7-for-8 from the free-throw line as the Spartans went 12-for-15 in the fourth quarter to hold on for a Three Rivers District victory.
Myers hit all four of his free throws in the fourth quarter and Stephens scored nine of his 19 in the the same period for Giles (8-8, 3-3).
Radford scored only 16 points in the first half and trailed the entire game. Down by 11 in the fourth quarter before cutting the deficit to one, the Bobcats never could take the lead. Chuck Hubbard led Radford (6-10, 2-3) with 18 points, Foster Ridpath added 17 and Matt Linkous 15.
Rocky Gap 81
Fort Chiswell 67
MAX MEADOWS - Nathan Blessing scored 13 of his game-high 32 points in the first quarter as the Eagles opened a 14-point lead and never looked back en route to the Mountain Empire District victory over the Pioneers.
Rocky Gap (10-5, 4-1), which remained tied with Grayson County for first place in the district, also got 15 points from Eric Faulkner and 12 from Kelly Dehart.
Fort Chiswell (9-7, 4-2) was led by Jody Burnett, who scored 22 points. T.J. King added 10 for the Pioneers.
Gateway Christian 63
Ballard Christian 49
BALLARD, W.Va. - Ryan Gordon had 12 points and 20 rebounds to lead the Crusaders to a victory at Ballard Christian.
Aaron Meadows scored eight of his 23 points in the third quarter for Gateway (9-5) and Jay Perfater finished with 14.
Jody Lee led Ballard (2-15) with 19 points.
Graham 69
Christiansburg 61
CHRISTIANSBURG - David Bailey scored 23 points and Jacob Dews added 16 as the G-Men rolled past the Demons in a non-district contest.
Graham (9-8) outscored Christiansburg 18-2 in the first quarter and never looked back.
Darrell Calloway and John Hairston each scored 14 for Christiansburg (14-3). Mischa Alexander had 12 points and Ryan Hubble added 10.
Shawsville 53
Craig County 39
SHAWSVILLE - Jeremy Nichols held the Pioneer District's second-leading scorer, Robbie Huffman, to four points in addition to scoring a game-high 27 points to lead the Shawnees in a non-district romp over the Rockets.
Huffman went into the game needing seven points to reach 1,000 for his career and was averaging almost 19 a game, but Nichols shadowed him throughout the night. Nichols also scored all 10 of Shawsville's points in the third quarter and had 18 in the second half as the Shawnees (2-15) pulled away.
Craig County (3-13) was led by Jamie Fisher, who scored a team-high 20 points. Cory Dow added 14 for Shawsville.
Narrows 70
Galax 54
GALAX - Patrick Bailey scored 22 points and Bryan Pruett added 20 as the Green Wave (9-6, 3-2) swamped the Maroon Tide (6-9, 0-6) in a Mountain Empire District matchup.
Narrows took a 30-20 halftime lead and increased its edge to 16 as Bailey scored 10 points in the third period. Galax cut the lead to seven with five minutes left, but Pruett sank three field goals to put the game out of reach.
Bailey was 10-for-10 from the free-throw line.
Ken Houtz scored 18 points for Galax and Tito Crockett added 10.
by CNB