SCHS boys fall in double-overtime at Trask
ROCKY POINT – A barn-burner.
The host Titans of Heide Trask got two free throws by Kimani Hill with two seconds left in the second overtime to escape with a 79-78 Waccamaw Conference boys basketball win over the South Columbus Stallions.
South Columbus, which held a 41-40 lead after three quarters, got a career-high 33 points by junior forward Derrick Clay. Frederick Bryant added 18 points for the Stallions, whose conference record slipped to 0-5. The Stallions are 3-11 for the season.
Coach Nathan Faulk’s Stallions played the Trask squad to a 60-60 deadlock at the end of regulation and the score was knotted at 69-all at the end of the first overtime.
Hill paced Trask scorers with 22 points, and Montez Farrior had 19 as Trask put its conference record at 2-3.
The South Columbus girls team improved its conference record to 2-3 with a 41-23 victory over the Lady Titans. Coach Brett Burroughs’ Lady Stallions built a 21-11 halftime lead and took a 32-28 lead into the final quarter.
Amanda Dowe scored 17 points and Kelly Strickland bucketed 10 for the Lady Stallions.
The Trask girls, who are now 0-5 in the conference, were led by S. Smith with 14 points.
GIRLS GAME
| S. Columbus |
8
|
13
|
11
|
9
|
-
|
41
|
| Trask |
7
|
4
|
7
|
5
|
-
|
23
|
SOUTH COLUMBUS (41): Strickland 10, McCoy 8, Dowe 17, Long 2, Freeman 1, Shaw 3.
TRASK (23): Shiver 2, Brown 1, James 2, Smith 14, Johnson 2, Lewis 2.
BOYS GAME
| S. Columbus |
12
|
14
|
15
|
19
|
9
|
9
|
-
|
78 |
| Trask |
15
|
17
|
8
|
20
|
9
|
10
|
-
|
79 |
SOUTH COLUMBUS (78): Clay 25, Bryant 18, J. Vereen 10, Keel 8, Gerald 4, Edwards 3, R. Vereen 2.
TRASK (79): Hill 22, Johnson 15, R. Farrior 2, Lewis 11, London 4, Bailey 4. M. Farrior 19.
