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Sophia In Section 4 Finalsermined to work for a shot, Shady Spring passed all around until a pick *et or the lane was open driving shot.ther team was hitting too n the first quarter. Eugene ake scored the game’s basket to give fee Tigers lead with 5:18 remaining i first quarter, rty-three seconds later the ats’ Gary Hoilandsworth he game at 2-2 after he the ball and drove all the or a layup.Wolfe then scored twous two to one.Shady Spring coach Willie Joe Chandler, whose teams have won the tournament two yearsin a row, was pleased wife the Tigers* performance. “I thought we did everything fairly well,”he stated. 4‘We got two, three shots in a row to bring us back.”Stoco was keyed up for an upset over Sophia, but the Bluehawks started playing the type of ball they are capable of in the second half. Larry Lilly was four-for-four on fieldgoals during the first halflayups in the first half was a deciding factor. Douglas agreed Stoco had too* many inside shots, especially for the zone defense the Bluehawks were using. “Stoco hit pretty good from the outside, but they got too many drive-in shots. We let them drive right down through us on defense.”Stoco relied on Its aggressive offense and defense in fee first half to get two and three shots at the basket and retain athree - to - five point lead throughout much of the first half.Sophia started out by getting three quick fouls on guard GregCullop. Both teams had several fouls against them by the end of the first quarter as the officials continued to call a close contest as they had done in fee first game.Sophia went out to a 4-0 lead after one minute of play before Cullop received three straight* * * * '\-f.fouls to shake the Bluehawk team. Stoco then battled back to a 4-4 tie at 5:40. The Indians went out to a five-point lead before Steve Copney hit two find shots with 3:33 remaining to snap Sophia's scoreless streak.Sophia and Stoco kept exchanging baskets at that point,but the Bluehawks started picking up extra ground and tied fee score at 19-19 wife S:23 remaining in fee first half..Sophia then went out to afive-point advantage but Stoco refused to give in to fee Bluehawks’ height and held a three-point lead, 32-29, at fee half.In the third quarter Lilly sparked the Bleuhawks by scoring Sophia’s first three baskets of the half to put the Bluehawks back into fee lead. Sophia raced to a 46-36 lead with 2:60 . remaining in fee quarter but Stoco came to within two, 5048 at the end of three frames. Again in the fourth quarter Lilly hit threeStraight baskets tn e«nH fevUUa
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Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1973
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