Girls Varsity Basketball – It was Senior Night at OC Friday night, but that didn’t stop the Jackson County Lady Panthers defeating the Lady Patriots 75-26.
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| OC takes a time out. |
Seniors Kristen Baker, Aubry Fearnow and Taylor McDaniel were honored with plaques, goodie bags, flowers and balloons before the start of the game Friday night. Considering the result of the game it was the most memorable event of the evening for the girls.
Jackson County started the game aggressively and kept it up until the final seconds of the third quarter when they were leading 61-18.
It’s not professional to inject personal opinions into news or sports reports. However…
By the end of the first quarter Jackson Co clearly had command of the game and the girls coach could have subbed out his starters for the girls on the bench. But no, it appeared he didn’t do that; running the score up on OC until it was ridiculous. Other teams have done the same thing this season.
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| Strange critters in the stands for Senior Night. |
I’m told it’s because at the end of the season if there is a tie between the top teams then point differentials become important. If that’s so then a new tie breaker must be found. It’s neither fair nor sportsmanlike to stomp a team in the face once they are down. Now back to the game…
By halftime Jackson Co lead 38-17 and on the night Jackson hit nine three pointers. To add insult to injury, Tanisha Eberheart caught an elbow in the eye that put her on her back but was called for a foul.
On the evening freshman Jessica Pulliam had six points followed by another freshman, Trenetta Smith, with five. OC had 13 rebounds four of which belonged to Taylor McDaniel. OC travels to North Oconee Friday, February 3rd.
Boys Varsity Basketball – The boys have a two game winning streak running. Last Tuesday they defeated East Jackson 70-56 and Friday night they avenged their 47-35 loss earlier in the season to Jackson County by a similar 48-37 win.
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| OC Wins! |
Seniors Shaq Fleming, Javon Jenkins, Maurice Freeman, Josh Jarrells and Jarrett Lackey were honored prior to the start of the girl’s varsity game. They were introduced with their parents and their high school career highlighted.
Both OC and Jackson Co started rather slow offensively. By 3:46 in the quarter the score was only 4-2 OC. Shortly after, Xavier Eberhart (12 points) got open under the basket scoring 2 on a pass from Maurice Freeman (10 points, with two ally oops). On Jackson’s inbound Shaq Freeman 13 points and OC’s high scorer) knocked the ball loose, which allowed Clay Ogle (three points) to pass the ball to Eberhart for another two points. And so it went. OC finished the quarter up 12-4 and not one foul on the board.
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| The fourth referee. |
OC went on an offensive hiatus in the second quarter. It wasn’t until the 4:15 mark before OC put some second quarter points on the board. Nevertheless, the Patriots would go into the locker room at halftime ahead 17-9.
It would be the third quarter before OC finally took the game in hand when their offense put 15 points in the box. Shaq Fleming had seven, one of which was a three pointer and Ogle hit a three pointer, too. Freeman, Josh Jarrells and Eberhart would put more up more OC points ending the quarter with a comfortable 32-16 lead.
OC kept up the offensive pressure when Freeman thrilled the crowd with two of his patented ally oops, Shaq Fleming and Eberhart put more points on OC’s side, two of which was from an Eberhart dunk. OC finished the quarter with 16 more points concluding their 48-37 win.
Josh Jarrells had four points with five rebounds and Eberhart had three steals.
The Patriots face North Oconee next Friday night, February 3rd at North Oconee.
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