Published Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Creekside able to slow Indians down
The Newnan Times-Herald
SHARPSBURG --Jyles Smith had a 21-point effort that including several key dunks in the second half on Tuesday to help lead the Creekside Seminoles to an 84-71 victory over the East Coweta Indians as part of a key Region 4-AAAAA doubleheader at the John Thrower Gymnasium.
The Seminoles improved to 11-9 overall and 9-6 in the region with the win while the Indians fell to 8-12, 5-10 with key region games against Mundy's Mill this Friday along with Westlake and Newnan next week.
"We seemed to be a step slower in every facet of the game than Creekside was," said Indians head coach Ronnie Vandiver. "There were some defensive stops we couldn't take advantage of on offense and also we would tip a ball away and they would come away with it."
Earlier in the evening, the Lady Indians got 16 points from Tryesa McKenzie and strong defense throughout the lineup for a dominating 54-39 victory.
The Lady Indians improved to 6-15 overall and a 5-10 record that is good enough for eighth in the region while the Lady Seminoles fell to 1-20, 0-15 on the season.
The game was scoreless until the 6:10 mark when Angelica Zackery converted a field goal for the Lady Indians who scored the first six points of the game and held a 17-6 lead at the end of the first period.
Trouble came for the Lady Seminoles in the second period as they were held to a pair of free throws by the Lady Indians who scored 14 in the stanza to take a 31-8 lead at halftime and come back in the third period to take a lead a large as 32 before settling with a 44-18 margin at the end of the period.
In the fourth period, the Lady Indians used a number of freshmen to complete the game and the Lady Seminoles took advantage by cutting into the margin with a 21-10 stanza.
Zanna Zackery followed McKenzie in scoring with eight points and Amber Kinnett had seven.
In the nightcap, Madarius Gibbs opened the game with a layup for the Indians but the Seminoles would come back with a 12-3 run to take a 12-5 lead on the way to a 17-9 lead at the end of the first period led by seven points from Smith.
The Indians would cut into the lead in the second period as Eddie Morris had five points while Joshua Houston and Omayo Onakoya each had four during a 22-point stanza.
However, Travious Relaford and Ron Green combined to score 13 of the Seminoles 21 points in the period to take a 38-31 lead to the locker room.
The Indians would try to cut into the Seminoles as they trailed by four on an occasion or two in the third period as Gibbs and Houston combined for 13 points in the period only to be turned away by the Seminoles who led 55-46 going into the final eight minutes.
In the fourth period, the same story followed the Indians as Gibbs and Houston each got hot to cut the deficit to approximately six points but were denied again as the Seminoles came away with several loose balls and the Indians would miss several key shots down the stretch.
Gibbs led the Indians in scoring as he scored 20 points to mark the fourth straight game in which he has recorded at least that total while Houston scored 16 and Brandon Farmer added 11 points.
