Wildcat teams take broom to Windsor

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November 24, 2008

Anonymous The Cordele Dispatch Mon Nov 24, 2008, 10:47 PM EST

By HARVEY SIMPSON

Dispatch Sports Editor

CORDELE — Near-identical points totals were good enough Monday night to get both Crisp Academy basketball teams into the win column at the expense of visiting Windsor Academy.

After coach Cliff Ranew’s Lady Wildcats had run their record to 4-1 with a 50-35 victory over the Lady Knights, coach Monte Horne’s Wildcats evened their report card at 1-1 with a 51-31 triumph over the Knights. Both Crisp teams host Sherwood Christian tonight.

Lady ’Cats 50, Lady Knights 35

Winning the scoring battle in three of the four quarters of play, the Lady Wildcats gradually pulled away from their foe with a performance Ranew labeled “an improvement over last week in the tournament at Locust Grove.

“Other than getting into early foul trouble, I thought we did a pretty good job overall. We did make a lot of turnovers (20), but we also did a good job of slowing things down the last four minutes. When they were forced to come out and pick us up, we got the ball inside for a couple of key baskets.

“All in all, we played well against a good Windsor team that’s big and physical. They were a good test for us and I was glad to see us pass it.”

Laura Leigh Carter once more led Crisp in scoring with 16 points. Katie Morse paced Windsor with 13.

Score by Quarters

Windsor 9-5-11-10 — 35

Crisp Academy 14-9-10-17 — 50

Scoring

Windsor (35) – Katie Morse 13, Stephanie Roquemore 8, Erica Courson 5, Storm Collins 1, Karyn Quinn 8.

Team totals: field goals 8; free throws 17 of 33 (51.5%); fouls 19; 3-pointers – Morse 2; fouled out – Morse.

Crisp Academy (50) – Kristen Greene 9, Abbe Jolly 2, Brittany Brewer 4, Ashley Athon 4, Laura Leigh Carter 16, Joiner Ivey 3, Libbi Collins 8, Hannah Dotson 4, Paige Jackson.

Team totals: field goals 20; free throws 10 of 19 (52.6%); fouls 23; 3-pointers – none; fouled out – none.

Wildcats 51, Knights 31

Following much the same script the Lady Wildcats used in authoring their victory, the Wildcats slowly but surely increased the gap between themselves and their guests. It was 9-4, 24-16 and 33-24 at the rest breaks before Crisp won the final stanza by an 18-2 margin to win going away.

“It was their first game and consequently we pretty much did to them what Citizens Christian did to us in our opener last week,” Horne said. “We did a good job with our half-court man for man and with our rebounding (Matthew Courson and Joseph Horne both had double-digit carom claims) .

“On the other hand, our shooting will still little off as you might expect with it still being very early in the season. Overall, even though we won comfortably, I know we can play a lot better. The bottom line, though, is we won.”

In addition to their big nights on the boards, Horne and Courson also topped the Wildcats’ scoring ledger with 23 and 13 points, respectively. Jake Worsham was high man for the Knights with 13.

Score by Quarters

Windsor Academy 4-12-8-2 — 31

Crisp Academy 9-15-9-18 — 51

Scoring

Windsor Academy (31) – Bo Giles 5, Jordan Peacock 4, Seth Fuller 4, Jake Worsham 13, Wes Hardy 2, Blake Brooks , Parker Henderson.

Team totals: field goals 12; free throws 4 of 21 (19.0%); fouls 21; 3-pointers — Peacock 1, Giles 1, Fuller 1; fouled out – Worsham, Parker Henderson.

Crisp Academy (51) – Bo Wright 6, Patrick Fay, Matthew Courson 13, Willie Bodrey, Benjamin Rambo, J.T. Carter, Chris Wells 1, Joseph Horne 23, Stephen Wells 8. David Rambo.

Team totals: field goals 16; free throws 14 of 26 (53.8%); fouls 18; 3-pointers – Wright 2, S. Wells 2, Horne 1; fouled out – none.

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