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Lady Ads roll, boys fall
Ken Lay, Correspondent - Thu, Feb, 2, 2012
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| Despite tight defense from Rebel Isaac Edminston, FHS’s Trent Hawkins powers to the basket. - Dan Barile/farragutpress |
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Spirits were high for both Farragut High School basketball teams after a trip to Maryville Friday night, Jan. 27. The Ads salvaged a split as the girls prevailed 51-40 and the boys fell 59-50 to the Red Rebels.
The Lady Admirals grinded out another close victory.
“To me, any win is a good win,” said Farragut junior guard Madison Blevins, who scored 14 points to pace FHS’s offense. “All wins are good wins.
“There’s no such thing as an ugly win. This year, we’ve made it our motto that no one is going to outhustle us or out physical us.”
Farragut (20-5 overall, 9-3 in District 4-AAA beginning the week) started fast and led 14-9 after the opening frame and 24-19 at halftime against the pesky Lady Rebels (13-7, 8-4).
Maryville received a boost on the final play of the second stanza when Laney Elrod was fouled on a 3-point shot and hit 2-out-of-3 free throws after time expired.
The Lady Rebels then controlled the third quarter and pulled to within 32-29 at the end of that frame.
The defenses were especially stingy over the final eight minutes. Farragut scored its final field goal with 6:16 left. The Lady Ads, however, hit 15-of-18 foul shots to close the game and earned the victory.
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Staying hot, BHS girls whip LC; boys win
Tom Mattingly, Correspondent - Thu, Feb, 2, 2012
The Bearden girls (18-4, 11-1) took two overtimes to knock off the Lenoir City (9-12, 5-7) 56-52 in a tense and tight District 4-AAA game that had enough drama for two games, while the Bulldogs (19-7, 9-3) jumped to a 37-21 halftime lead over the Panthers (12-9, 7-5) and never took a backwards glance en route to a 72-46 victory.
Erin Walsh scored 20 points and Jai-Jai McLaughlin added 19 as the Bearden girls struggled to get past Lenoir City’s girls aggregation.
The Lady Bulldogs trailed by nine in the second quarter by eight in the third, before turning up the defensive heat and rallying to take the lead on a Walsh three.
Walsh had three three-point goals to give the Lady Bulldogs a spark down the stretch.
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Hockey Ads, Whalers tie
Ken Lay, Correspondent - Thu, Feb, 2, 2012
Streaks are made to be broken and the Farragut High School hockey club had its three-game Knoxville Amateur Hockey Association winning streak snapped Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Icearium.
A modest string of victories came to an end for the Ads with a 5-5 tie against the Knoxville Whalers. The Whalers, who fell behind 2-0 early, looked nothing like league cellar dwellers.
“They’ve really improved,” said Farragut junior center Thomas Detchemendy, who had a hat trick for the Admirals. “We beat them 11-1 [in the Hockey Hoe Down Tournament] the last time we played them.”
FHS head coach Rob Despins said, “We didn’t play all that bad but it just wasn’t our night. We just didn’t get the bounces.
Farragut (4-1-2) darted ahead 1-0 on Detchemendy’s first goal with 10:45 left in the first period. Kyle Lindsay made it 2-0 a short time later.
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Magical FHS frosh season ends
Ken Lay, Correspondent - Thu, Feb, 2, 2012
Farragut High School freshman boys basketball team recently completed a magical season.
The tournament’s top seed, Farragut enjoyed several big victories this season despite a 50-49 loss to Carter Wednesday, Jan. 25, in the KIL Freshman Tournament at Gibbs High School.
“It was a tough way for the season to end but it was a special season,” FHS coach Brent Burns said. “These kids had a mental toughness about them. We had a lot of 6 a.m. practices but nobody ever complained.”
The 2011-12 campaign had plenty of big moments. Farragut notched a regular-season comeback victory over two-time defending champion Austin-East in which the Ads erased a late deficit with a 15-0 run.
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Hot shooting helps Lady Ads JV win tournament
Ken Lay, Correspondent - Thu, Feb, 2, 2012
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| Annie McMurray, Farragut junior varsity guard, reacts after nailing one of six 3-point field goals during the tournament championship game. - Dan Barile/farragutpress |
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It seemed only fitting that Annie McMurray held the championship trophy while she and her teammates posed for the traditional postgame photo shoot.
McMurray, Farragut High School’s junior varsity point guard, scored a game-high 22 points to lead the Lady Admirals to a 46-36 victory over rival William Blount Saturday night in the championship game of the Farragut JV/Freshman Girls Basketball Tournament at FHS’s Lynn E. Sexton Gymnasium.
“I don’t know what happened,” said McMurray, who connected on six 3-point shots, including four long-range jumpers in the third quarter. “I was just feeling it and this was the best game that I’ve played.”
Early on, both the Lady Governors and the resident Lady Admirals had offensive troubles as they slugged through nearly four scoreless minutes to open things.
But once the Lady Ads got rolling, the outside shots fell in bunches. Farragut, which outscored the Lady Govs 11-5 in the opening frame, got 3-pointers from McMurray and Madison Maples. Kristen Freeman converted a pair of foul shots and Madyson Newby added a field goal and was 1-for-2 from the free throw line in the frame.
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