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Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014
The Journal
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Preparing for the conference 22 championship!
Leonard Banks
The Drifters varsity girls’ basketball team rallied in the second half to defeat a tough Northumberland Indian team.
Drifters dispose of Northumberland Leonard Banks Sports editor The Drifters girls’ varsity basketball team is sitting on cloud nine. After dispensing of the third seeded, Northumberland Indians (1-2, 8-3), 43-36, the Drifters have a golden opportunity to win the 1A Conference 43 regular season championship. However, to solidify their chances, they must win their final two games against Rappahannock. With a record of 8-0, 16-1, the Drifters have quickly elevated their status as a potential conference tournament and regional title contender. If they win the regular
season outright, they will have a first round bye, and an opportunity to host the second round of the conference tournament. The top two teams will earn the right to play in the Regional Championship. On Tuesday, during senior night, the Drifters will host second ranked Conference 43 rival, Rappahannock (5-2, 9-4), and the following day they will travel to play the Raiders again. From the start of the first quarter, the Drifters charged out on the floor with a press, man-on-man defense. After the Drifters took a 4-2 opening lead, Northumberland refused to submit, as they tied the game up on
three occasions before the end of the quarter. However, Sydni Carey, with 11 seconds left in the quarter, gave the home-standing Drifters a onepoint lead. In the second quarter, the Indians utilized two trailing outlet players to offset the Drifters’ press defense to take a 18-11 lead, with less than a minute and a half left in the half. With 41 seconds remaining in the period, Deniya Newman blocked an Indian shot attempt, and went from end-to-end to score on a fast break to cut the the Northumberland lead to seven. Newman later finished the game with 12 points, seven rebounds and four steals
Courtesy of three opening backto-back fast break baskets by Billie Gould, the Foxes opened the third quarter with a 6-0 run. Less than a minute later, Carey extended the run to 8-0 with an assist to Newman to take a 19-18 lead. Carey exchanged scores with Indian guard, Rajaa Shabazz to eventually give the Drifters a 25-22 lead. Shabazz later finished the game with 22 points, while Carey led all Drifter scorers with 19 points, seven steals and five assists. In the final quarter, the Drifters fought off several attempts by the Indians to rally to win 43-36.
Drifters JV basketball improves to 14-1 At the start of the second quarter, the Drifters opened the period with four points from Rudzynski, on assists from Shaleah Rudolph and Jordan McGinnis. With the Indians offense virtually non-existent (one field goal), McGinnis scored five points on two fast breaks and one foul line appearance to close out the first half. After limiting the Indians to two field goals in the first half, the Drifters defense duplicated their efforts in the third quarter with the same result. Although the pace of the game was slow, and methodical, the Drifters added an additional nine points to their 33-7 lead. In the final quarter, with both teams emptying their benches with second-string players, the Indians managed to score an additional five points to eclipse double digits and bring the game to a close.
Leonard Banks Sports editor
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