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On a Roll Thethe Coalfieldcoalfield Central Wins Battle of Area’S Top Teams The Post Thursday, December 27, 2012 B1 On a roll TheThe CoalfieldCoalfield Central wins battle of area’s top teams BY KEVIN MAYS 55 SPORTS EDITOR WISE — The Central Lady Warriors continued to roll along Friday and BOYS Saturday by picking up two wins in a battle of southwestern Virginia and southeastern Kentucky girls basketball BASKETBALL powers. The Lady Warriors (8-0), ranked Listed are the top 5 boys basketball No. 1 in The Coalfield 5 ranking of teams in the coalfield counties of teams in the Coalfield region including Southwest Virginia, took a 59-46 win Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, Lee, over the Shelby Valley Lady Kats Friday night in the Va. - Ky. Border Russell, Scott, Tazewell and Clash at UVa-Wise’s David Prior Convocation Center. Washington counties as selected by a Shelby Valley (8-1) entered the two- panel of sports writers, other media day, round-robin tournament ranked No. 1 in the WYMT Mountain 10 rank- members, coaches and other regional ing of southeastern Kentucky teams. On Saturday, the Lady Warriors high school basketball observers from took a 64-55 victory over the Letcher around the Coalfield region. The listing County Central (Ky.) Lady Cougars (9- 2) in the final game of the tournament. includes team, overall record, total Letcher County Central entered the points this week based on a 6-4-3-2-1 weekend tournament ranked No. 2 in the Mountain 10 poll. rating system and ranking last week. The Gate City Lady Blue Devils, which entered the tournament as the PHOTOS BY RODDY ADDINGTON second-ranked team in the Coalfield 5, didn’t fair as well against the Kentucky Gate City’s Hannah Musick, left, looks to make a 1) Abingdon, 8-0 (72) 1 squads as Central did. pass around the defense of Letcher County Central’s The Lady Blue Devils (3-5) dropped Cheyanne Stidham in Friday night’s game. a 42-41 decision to Letcher County Central on Friday before falling 55-24 down seven rebounds, had seven steals with 10 points and eight rebounds for on Saturday to Shelby Valley. and three assists to lead the Lady Central. 2) Honaker, 5-0 (31) NR Warriors to Saturday’s win over Letcher County Central got 22 REYNOLDS, WYRICK LEAD Letcher County Central. points from Cheyanne Stidham. LADY WARRIORS Hayley Wyrick added 25 points and In Saturday’s other game, Shelby Central sophomore Logan Reynolds 12 rebounds in the win for the Lady 3) Gate City, 3-3 (30) 2 scored a career-high 27 points, pulled Warriors, while Laura Gipe finished See ROLL, Page B2 Headed to the Alpha Classic 4) Castlewood, 4-3 (23) 5 Union’s Tyler Vernon (50) goes 5) Union, 4-2 (17) NR up for a shot against the Lee Other teams receiving votes include: High Generals in a Lebanon (14), Haysi (3), Central (1), recent game. Virginia (1). Vernon and the Bears will be in action Thursday, Friday and GIRLS Saturday at the Alpha Classic BASKETBALL tournament at Listed are the top 5 girls basketball UVa-Wise’s David teams in the Coalfield region including Prior Convocation Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, Lee, Center. The tour- Russell, Scott, Tazewell and Washington nament features counties as selected by a panel of sports teams from writers, other media members, coaches Virginia, Kentucky, and other regional high school basket- Tennessee and ball observers from around the Pennsylvania. Coalfield region. The listing includes FILE PHOTO team, overall record, total points this week based on a 6-4-3-2-1 rating sys- Castlewood falls to Honaker in tem, and ranking last week. Bristol tourney championship game 1) Central, 8-0 (72) 1 BY ANTHONY STEVENS tory. A Castlewood player had only three seconds remaining and it SPORTS WRITER thought the Devils were still trailing appeared there would be an overtime. and quickly fouled Hall. The overtime didn’t happen. BRISTOL — It was definitely a “That play didn’t beat us,” “When Edmonds tied it up, I 2) Richlands, 6-0 (35) 5 see-saw battle. Castlewood coach Doug Campbell would have been happy to go to over- The Castlewood Blue Devils led said. “One play doesn’t beat you. We time,” Honaker coach Marcus by as many as 13 points in the first were 1-of-6 at the free throw line and Dunham said. “I thought we would half. Honaker led by as many as 10 we had 16 turnovers. If we take care be fortunate to go to OT. It was unfor- 3) Gate City, 3-5 (27) 2 points late in the third quarter. of the ball and hit our foul shots, tunate for Castlewood that it hap- The final eight minutes was a free- we’re not in that situation.” pened that way, but we’ve had a little for-all going back and forth but the Honaker was leading 52-48 with luck in this tournament.” Tigers took home the championship 42 seconds left to play. Castlewood A stretch in the third quarter was with a 54-52 win over the Blue missed a shot and then got another the difference in the game. Dylan 4) Grundy, 6-1 (26) 4 Devils in the 2012 Alpha Natural opportunity when Honaker was Trent hit a 3-pointer with 6:15 to play Resources Classic at the Bearcat Den called for a charging foul. After a in the third. The Devils didn’t score on Saturday. timeout, Edmonds made a layup on again until a basket by Alec Slemp on After Reid Edmonds had made a an inbounds play to pull within 52-50 the block with 45 second left. 5) Lebanon, 7-2 (23) 3 couple of great plays to tie the contest with 12 seconds remaining. Castlewood went over five minutes at 52-all with three seconds remain- They immediately fouled and Hall without scoring and only had five ing, an intentional foul call gave the missed the front end of a 1-and-1. points in the quarter, trailing by eight Tigers a chance for the win. Ty Hall Edmonds grabbed the rebound and going to the final stanza. Other teams receiving votes include: made two free throws with 2.3 sec- drove the length of the floor for onds remaining for the margin of vic- another layup to tie the contest with See BRISTOL, Page B2 Union (3), Virginia (2), Clintwood (1). Page B2 Thursday, December 27, 2012 The Post Big Stone Gap, Virginia PHOTOS BY RODDY ADDINGTON Gate City’s Katie Potts lays up a Gate City’s Rachel Kilgore (5) puts up Gate City’s Hannah Kilgore (34) bat- shot for the Lady Blue Devils in a shot in Friday’s contest with Letcher tles for a rebound in Friday night’s Friday’s game against Letcher County Central. Border Clash game with Letcher County County Central in the Va. - Ky. Border Central. See more photos at Coalfield.com Clash at UVa-Wise. “We played five good defensive min- Cougars 20-11 in the third quarter to cut utes there in the third quarter and I think the lead to 34-30. Roll that made the difference for us,” said Gate City never took the lead in the Central coach Robin Dotson. contest, but tied the game at 41-41 after From Page B1 Central was guilty of making more Rachel Kilgore stole the ball and mistakes than normal as well. The Lady Hannah Musick scored for the Lady Valley held Gate City to one point in the Warriors entered the game averaging 11 Blue Devils with 38 seconds left in the second quarter and jumped out to a 26-10 turnovers per game, but turned the ball contest. halftime lead on the way to an easy win over 20 times against the Lady Kats. Gate City stole the ball back on over the Lady Blue Devils. Dotson was not pleased with the Letcher’s next possession, before the Gate City, which did not have a play- turnovers but said he was pleased with Lady Cougars returned the favor with a er score over four points in the game, fin- the way his team kept playing despite steal by Kelli Quillen with 13 seconds ished the game with 32 turnovers — eight them. left in the game. more than the Lady Blue Devils point “Their guards were pretty good and Quillen missed two free throws with total. forced some turnovers on us, but we bat- 10 seconds to play, which kept the game Taylor Rowe led Shelby Valley’s scor- tled through it and did enough to get by,” tied at 41-41. Another steal by Quillen ers with 13 points in the contest. he said. gave Letcher Central the ball back. Wyrick led Central’s scorers with 22 Quillen drew a two-shot foul with one- FRIDAY GAMES points, while Reynolds finished with 16 tenth of a second to play. In Friday’s game between top-ranked points, 13 rebounds and six assists and She missed the first free throw but teams, Central took a 30-23 halftime lead Gipe added 12 points for the Lady connected on the second one to give the PHOTO BY GRANT STANLEY before pulling away in the third quarter to Warriors. Lady Cougars the dramatic win. Gate City’s Kaley Gose, left, dribbles secure the win over Shelby Valley. Lakyn Mullins led Shelby Valley Kelah Eldridge led Letcher County the ball around the defensive pressure The Lady Warriors outscored Shelby with 15 points. in scoring with 15 points, while Julie Valley 15-7 in the third quarter to build a In Friday’s other game, Gate City fell Cornett added 11.
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