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Greater Atlanta leading Gate City at the half, 40-35. Greater Atlanta raced out to a big lead on GC to open the game but GC has held tough since and went on a 12-0 run to close out the half.
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Greater Atlanta wins 73-63. Great effort by GC.
Hurley and Mentor (OH) up next.
Score on the Hurley game?
Hurley lost 102-29. Mentor hit an Arby's record 18 three pointers.
Oh man that's embarrassing....
All finals for today.
Ursprings 48 Sevier County 36
Tabernacle Baptist 58 Greeneville 34
Greater Atlanta Christian 73 Gate City 63
Mentor 102 Hurley 29
Charlotte Christian 43 Sullivan East 42*
Cherokee 51 Craigmont 47
GC's Austen Arnold had 27, Luke Ervin 10, Andy Arnold 10. GC lost to a damn good team who I heard lost t by the #9 team in the US by a small margin. From what I seen of Hurley ehh not much but Mentor avgs 106 a game and Hurley held them under avg (2nd and 3rd team played half the game) also Mentor broke the Arbys Classic most team 3's in a single game. The old record was 16 threes set in 03 by White Station and Mentor ended with 18 threes 12 came in the first half. I will rate Hurley vs GC Thursday morning. I say GC 68 Hurley 49
I seen on SWVA sports that Waynick didn't play due to the death of his grandmother. Waynick would have helped but the outcome wouldn't have been different. Gate City goes down if Waynick plays but if he doesn't, Gate City wins by about 12-15 points.
Waynick or no Waynick they put up 102 with their starters playing half a game. Waynick plays post, he isnt gonna stop 3's nor help inbound the ball. They wont beat GC with or without him. Gate City 73 Hurley 58 with him. GC 78 Hurley 55 without him. Hurley is pretty weak. Slow, short, and to many turnovers. Stick with the D1 competition
Gate city leads Hurley 33-25 at the half. Hurley is playing without Waynick again. GC had another player go down with a sick looking knee injury, hope the kid is alright.
GC 70 Hurley 55
Played like dog crap and still beat the "2nd" best team in the region. On to the next one.
Austen Arnold 24 pts Andy Arnold 21pts
To be fair, Hurley was missing two kids due to death in the family. I'm not sure who one of them was, but I k ow the post player would have made a difference. Andy wouldn't have been nearly as effective and efficient and the Waynick kid accounts for a double-double every game. Neither team played their best basketball.
I'm not trying to take anything away from Gate City as they have a very good team this year. Even a Hurley team at full strength, second best team in the region or not, is a team that Gate City should beat.
Also, I'm not sure Hurley is that much better than Twin Springs. I know they weren't at full strength, but they aren't very athletic at all IMO. They play extremely well together, but if they get in a track meet with the Titans it could be the end of them.
Craigmont Chiefs 75
Gate City Blue Devils 49
Craigmont out rebounded GC 34-11.
Just to be fair to Hurley, Mentor scored 102 again the next game against the group from Atlanta that beat GC.Quote:
Originally Posted by gchs_devils
I dont think it mattered if Gate City were playing the Knicks, They would still have an excuse for losing. Give other teams some credit. Hurley would have a great chance to took that game to the wire if the other two kids were playing. But like duckmeat, Im not taking anything away from GC at all, best team in the region
GC was missing two also.
Bird and who else? Bowen?
Bowen went down vs hurley early he played in the Craigmont game yesterday though. Excuse? None here, we just didnt perform well. We went away from what we do best. It was close and back and forth but we tried forcing dumb shots and passes. But 2 legitiment losses on our schedule. Greater Atlanta 2 time defending AA state champs of Georgia and Craigmont the defending AAA state champs out of Memphis Tn. To be the best you gotta play the best.
And on another note, Gate City's Andy Arnold stole the show in the Dunk Contest last become only the 2nd local ever to win and the 1st from swva. And Austen made it into the semi finals (top 5)
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