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A8 | TUESDAY, 02.28.2012 THE LEDGER INDEPENDENTA8 | SPORTS TUESDAY, 02.28.2012 | THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT
SPORTS DIRECTORY606-564-9091 OR 800-264-9091
NAME EXT. EMAILChuck Hamilton 251 [email protected] Klemme 273 [email protected]
SCORE DEADLINE FOR NEXT DAY’S EDITION: 10 P.M.
TUESDAY, FEB. 28GIRLS’ BASKETBALLBracken County vs. Harrison County,
10th Region tournament quarterfinals at Campbell County Middle School, 7:45 p.m.
BOYS’ BASKETBALLRipley vs. North College Hill, sectional
tournament at Western Brown, 8 p.m.Manchester vs. Fairfield, sectional tour-
nament at Lucasville Valley, 6:15 p.m.Times subject to change
TUESDAY, FEB. 28MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL7 P.M.ESPN — Michigan St. at IndianaESPN2 — Kansas St. at Texas A&M9 P.M.ESPN — Florida at Vanderbilt
NHL7:30 P.M.NBCSN — Los Angeles at Minnesota10:30 P.M.NBCSN — Philadelphia at San Jose
FEB. 281922 — In the first college conference
basketball tournament, North Caro-lina beats Mercer 40-26 to win the Southern Conference championship.
1940 — College basketball is televised for the first time. Station W2XBS transmits a basketball doubleheader from New York’s Madison Square Gar-den: Pittsburgh vs. Fordham and New York University vs. Georgetown.
1957 — Johnny Longden becomes the first jockey to reach 5,000 victories. Longden, who started his career in 1927, coaxes Bente to a head victory over Flying Finish II in the fourth race at Santa Anita Park.
1960 — The U.S. hockey team scores six goals in the third period to beat Czechoslovakia 9-4 and win the gold medal in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif.
1967 — Wilt Chamberlain misses his first field goal in four games to end his NBA record shooting streak of 35 consecutive field goals, during Philadelphia’s 127-107 victory over Cincinnati at Syracuse.
1971 — Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA Championship by beating Billy Casper by three strokes.
1981 — Houston’s Calvin Murphy makes the last of his 78 consecutive free throws in a game against San Diego, setting what was then an NBA record.
1986 — Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth gives one-year drug suspensions to Dave Parker of the Cincinnati Reds, Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets, Joaquin Andujar of the Oakland Athletics, Lonnie Smith of the Kansas City Royals, Enos Cabell of the Los Angeles Dodgers,
Jeff Leonard of the San Francisco Gi-ants and Dale Berra of the New York Yankees. After conditions are met the suspensions are reduced.
1987 — Los Angeles Lakers broad-caster Chick Hearn calls his 2,000th consecutive game for the club, a streak spanning 22 years.
1993 — Iolanda Chen of Russia sets a world record in the triple jump with a leap of 47 feet, 5¼ inches, breaking Inessa Kravets’ 1991 record by three-quarters of an inch.
1999 — Venus and Serena Williams be-come the first sisters to win WTA Tour events on the same day. Venus wins the IGA SuperThrift Tennis Classic in Oklahoma City after Serena takes her first title on the WTA Tour at the Gaz de France Open.
2003 — In Val Di Fiemme, Italy, Johnny Spillane wins the Nordic combined sprint to become the first American to win a gold medal at the Nordic world championships.
2010 — Ai Miyazato wins the HSBC Champions to become the first LPGA Tour player in 44 years to sweep the first two events of a season. Miyazato, who won the LPGA Thailand last week, closes with a 3-under 69 for a two-stroke victory over Cristie Kerr.
2010 — Sidney Crosby scores in overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the U.S. in the final event of the Vancouver Olympics. Canada earns its 14th gold medal, the most by any country at any Winter Olympics. The U.S. wins the silver medal, its 37th medal at these games, the most by any country at a Winter Olympics. The Americans win the winter medals race for the first time since 1932.
BASEBALLThe Tom Browning Boys & Girls Club is
now forming its spring and summer baseball and softball leagues, free of charge and for children ages 5-15. The teams are divided by grade category. The deadline to sign up is March 16 at 5 p.m. Applications are available at the club or at tombrowningboysand-girlsclub.com. For more information, contact Caitlin Waddell at 606-564-3093.
BASKETBALLThe third annual Roundball Classic is
March 10-11 at Lewis County High School, Lewis County Middle School and Central Elementary gyms and is sponsored by the LCHS football
program. The entry fee is $100. For more information, call John Holder at 606-796-2531 or 606-202-3009, or Harlan “Bub” Lee at 606-798-6006 or 606-301-1048.
RUNNINGThe Lewis County High School baseball
team is hosting “The Roaring Lion” 5K walk/run March 10 in Vanceburg at 11 a.m. Registration is $20, which includes a T-shirt. Day-of-race regis-tration is at Trace Creek Construction beginning at 9 a.m. For more informa-tion, call Keith Prater at 606-796-2823 or email [email protected] or call Kenny Ruckel at 606-541-6244 or email [email protected].
ZUMAYA CONSIDERING RETIREMENT AFTER INJURYFORT MYERS, Fla. |
Minnesota Twins reliever Joel Zumaya says he is con-sidering retirement after tearing a ligament in his elbow at spring training.
Zumaya spoke to report-ers Monday, one day after he was diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral liga-ment in his right elbow. If he wants to return to base-ball, he will need Tommy John surgery.
That would be the hard-
throwing reliever’s sixth operation since 2006. He says he’s not sure if he wants to put his body through another long re-habilitation. But he also is intrigued by the success that many pitchers have had after having such sur-gery.
Zumaya says he will talk things over with his family and hopes to make a deci-sion in the next day or two. — AP
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MASONFROM A7
seven but Mason answered with a putback from Alivia Bierley before Deming’s Krista Smithers closed the quarter’s scoring with a putback basket.
The Lady Devils pulled to within five on a Smith-ers basket early in the second quarter but Mason proceeded on a 10-3 run to go up by 12 with 1:06 before the half. Lady Roy-als sophomore point guard McKenzie Butler scored six of her 10 total points dur-ing the run.
Mason went on a 9-0 run in the third quarter to essentially put the game
away, taking a 36-18 lead with 2:51 left in the frame. That run began with a Green putback basket, fol-lowed by Cropper’s second 3-pointer, and baskets from Moran and Butler.
Mason coach Piper Lindsey was happy with the way her team began the game.
“I’m very pleased with how focused we were from the start and I liked how we took it to ‘em,” Lindsey said. “We had a very good practice yesterday and it carried over into tonight. Both of my seniors were awesome tonight after the sophomores led us last week. Courtney played a great game and Cristen was huge for us by hitting some big 3-pointers.”
Lindsey was also pleased with other aspects of the game but admitted she wasn’t completely happy.
“Alivia and Elle (Simms) didn’t have great offensive games but they did other things to help the team and Cara did a great job in the post defending Carmack,” said the coach. “But I was a little disappointed when I thought we kinda relaxed at times and I screamed at the girls at halftime even though we were up nine. But that’s just coaches are never really satisfied.”
Bierley finished with a game-high 10 rebounds and Green grabbed eight boards to go with her 10 points. Mason won the rebounding battle with a 36-27 edge.
Deming was led in scoring by Carmack and Smithers, who each tossed in 11 points. Smithers had nine rebounds and Car-mack added eight in her final game as a Lady Devil.
Deming coach Thomas Mitchell admitted the slow start by his team was its undoing.
“Getting into that early hole sure didn’t help, we didn’t run our offense and forced shots,” he said. “It was the most physi-cal game we’ve been in all season and we just didn’t respond. I don’t know if it was nerves or playing in this environment but those first few minutes we didn’t have a real good ef-fort. It was also unfamiliar territory with a lot of un-
certainties. We’ve never played or practiced in this gym and the game was called differently as well. We also had just two girls who have played in a region tournament and that may have had an effect on us too.”
Lindsey complimented the Deming team.
“We knew coming in that they’re very well-coached and they very easily could’ve folded after getting down early but they battled the entire way, both offensively and de-fensively,” Lindsey said.
Mitchell’s final re-marks reflected on the three Deming seniors who played their last game.
“Kelsey and Jessica have been with me for eight
years and Cheryl Burden joined us this season and I love all of them,” he said. “They all mean so much to me and we’re really like family here. I told the team in the locker room too that there’s one thing no one can ever take away from them and that’s that they were 38th District champs.”
Mason County 13 12 15 12 —52Deming 6 10 8 14 —38MC: Bierley 7, Moran 17, Green 10, But-
ler 10, Cropper 6, Simms 2, Hamm 0, Henry 0, Total 52.
DHS: J. Mitchell 7, Carmack 11, Smith-ers 11, L. Mitchell 8, Woerner 0, Fry-man 1, Lovins 0, Burden 0, Total 38.
3-pointers: MC 3 (Cropper 2, Moran), DHS 1 (J. Mitchell).
Records: Mason County 9-22, Dem-ing 9-20.
FLEMINGFROM A7
Allex, Boyd and Aali-yah Johnson put Fleming County (26-6) on their backs during a 15-1 fourth quarter run to turn a sev-en-point deficit into a sev-en-point lead at 41-34 on Boyd’s 3-pointer from the corner with 2:01 to play.
But the defending re-gion champion Lady Lions (21-10) didn’t appear at all fazed and made a 13-5 run to close the game. It was capped when Fraley stole Fleming County’s Shayla Robinson’s pressured pass after a rebound, and the Lady Panthers’ Boyd was called for a foul on Fraley shooting a 3 with 3.6 sec-onds to go.
Fraley stepped to the line with the Fleming County student section on the other end of the floor do-ing its best to affect the shot, and she swished the first free throw but missed the second long off the back iron. Orem then took a full timeout to make the freshman think about it and set up a play, but Fral-ey nailed the third try.
Fleming County was able to get the ball into Al-lex’s hands, and she drove to the bucket, but her off-balance shot from the right baseline as time expired was altered as the Lady Li-ons began celebrating.
An emotional Orem after the game marveled at the late-game turn of events.
“We came back, we got ourselves in position to
win, we get the rebound, we’ve got it, we’re up (one), and they get the rebound and we foul on a 3-point shot, and what are the chances of that happening?” she asked rhetorically. “You’ve just gotta credit them for get-ting in that position.”
The visitors held the Lady Panthers to 26 points through three quarters and the first 2:50 of the fourth frame before Flem-ing County got a little something going. Trailing 33-26, Allex jarred the ball loose from a pair of Boyd County hands on the of-fensive glass and hit a free throw. She missed the second, but Robinson and Morgan Jett each claimed offense boards before Jett sank two at the line.
Boyd County senior Kaitlin Brown hit one free throw before Allex scored down low, and Robinson tied the game at 34 with a trey after a Lady Lions turnover.
Boyd scored down low with 2:55 to go for the Lady Panthers’ first lead since 2-0. Johnson forced a tie-up and Boyd scored down low again 25 seconds later, and Boyd drained the trey that put Fleming County on top 41-34 with 2:01 to
play.After two Brown free
throws and one from Al-lex, Fraley nailed back-to-back treys to tie the game with 1:15 to play. Allex canned two more at the line and Wheeler hit one with 1:00 to play before junior Morgan Kenser scored down low with 32 seconds to play for a 45-44 Lady Lions lead.
Fleming County’s Boyd took that back with two free throws with 21.6 seconds left to set up Boyd County’s final possession.
Boyd County was 12-for-28 on free throws, while the Lady Panthers hit 10 of 22.
Both teams shot mark-edly better after halftime from the field. Fleming County hit 20 percent from the field in the first half and 47.8 percent af-ter the break, while Boyd County connected on 27.8 percent in the first half and 50 percent in the last two quarters.
The Lady Lions’ coach chalked that up to the Lady Panthers’ defense.
“We didn’t get very many open looks,” the elder Fraley said. “We were just fortunate, very fortunate. We had a seven-point lead, and we squandered it away, and then went down seven ... and just somehow found a way to fight back. I don’t know words to describe it except (Logan Fraley) made a couple big plays.”
Boyd County advances to play Lewis County in the regional at Morehead State on Thursday night.
The Lady Panthers see the careers of six seniors — Allex, Boyd, Johnson, Jett, Victoria Edmond and Alex James — come to an end.
“Those girls have been such a big part of our team, and for the last six years they’ve been successful and done well, and now they can leave here tonight say-ing that they were part of the best team we’ve ever had,” Orem said. “Unfortunately it didn’t end where we thought it should end.”
Boyd County 7 8 15 17—47Fleming County 7 4 15 20—46BC: Fraley 20, Wheeler 13, Brown
8, Kenser 3, Stewart 1, Coburn 2, Moore 0. Total 47.
FC: Allex 16, Boyd 12, Johnson 8, Jett 4, Edmond 0, Taylor 3, Robinson 3, James 0. Total 46.
3-pointers: Boyd County 5 (Fraley 5), Fleming County 4 (Boyd 2, Allex, Robinson).
Records: Boyd County 21-10, Flem-ing County 26-6.
