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PREP SPORTS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2015
THE SUMTER ITEM
AREA ROUNDUP
LMA girls, TSA boys win play-in games ORANGEBURG -- Laurence Manning Academy’s varsity girls basketball team defeated Calhoun Academy 60-57 in overtime on Saturday in a play-in game in the SCISA Region II-3A tournament at the Orangeburg Prep gymnasium. Courtney Beatson led LMA with a double-double of 23 points and 12 rebounds. Cora Lee Downer had 12 points while Brooke Bennett added 10 points. Maggie Eppley had nine points, nine assists and nine rebounds. The Lady Swampcats will face Wilson Hall in a semifinal game on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Sumter County Civic Center. CLARENDON HALL 36 ANDREW JACKSON 28
HOLLY HILL -- Clarendon Hall opened the SCISA Region III-1A tournament with a 36-28 victory over Andrew Jackson Academy on Saturday at the Holly Hill Academy gymnasium. The Saints will play in the semifinals on Monday at 3:30 p.m. SCOTT’S BRANCH 50
JV BASKETBALL WILSON HALL 45 LAURENCE MANNING ACADEMY 12
ORANGEBURG -- Wilson Hall defeated Laurence Manning Academy 45-12 in a semifinal game in the SCISA Region II-3A tournament at the Orangeburg Prep gym. Zan Beasley scored 10 points and had five assists to lead Wilson Hall (16-0). Courtney Clark added eight. Wilson Hall will play Thomas Sumter Academy in the championship game on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at Sumter County Civic Center. THOMAS SUMTER 26 CALHOUN 23
ORANGEBURG – Thomas Sumter Academy defeated Calhoun Academy 26-23 on Saturday in the SCISA Region II-3A tournament at the Orangeburg Prep gymnasium on Saturday. Josie Reed led TSA with 11 points, while Taja Hunley had five. TSA will meet Wilson Hall in the championship game on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at Sumter County Civic Center.
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TURBEVILLE – Scott’s Branch High School defeated East Clarendon 50-44 on Thursday at the EC gymnasium. Ashley Leonard led Scott’s Branch with 28 points.
BOYS VARSITY BASKETBALL THOMAS SUMTER 55 CALHOUN 50
ORANGEBURG – Thomas
Sumter Academy defeated Calhoun Academy 55-50 on Saturday in a play-in game in the SCISA Region II-3A tournament at the Orangeburg Prep gymnasium. Tanner Brunson led TSA with 23 points, while Drew Stengel added 20. The Generals, who are 6-17, will play Laurence Manning Academy on Monday in a semifinal game at 8 p.m. at Sumter County Civic Center.
JV BASKETBALL WILSON HALL 31 THOMAS SUMTER 24 ORANGEBURG -- Wilson Hall 31 advanced to the championship game of the SCISA Region II-3A tournament with a 31-24 semifinal victory over Thomas Sumter Academy on Saturday at the Orangeburg Prep gymnasium. Brandon Carraway and Corbin Bruce both had six points to lead the 9-10 Barons. Ryan Dixon led TSA with 11. Wilson Hall will face Laurence Manning Academy in the championship game on Tuesday at 4:45 p.m. at Sumter County Civic Center.
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FROM PAGE B1 plays host to 11-11 Berkeley. The 17-4 Lady Knights, the defending 3A state runner-up, will be at home against 10-12 Hilton Head Island. The 3A boys playoffs begin on Tuesday. Crestwood will be at home against Beaufort for a 7 p.m. game, while Lakewood will be on the road against Orangeburg-Wilkinson in a 7 p.m. game. Beaufort, the No. 3 team from Region VIII, is being coached by former Sumter High School head coach Nathan Livesay. The Eagles bring a 12-12 record into the
game against the 17-4 Knights, who tied for the Region VI title with Darlington. Lakewood is 9-14 while Region VIII champion O-W is 16-6. The Lee Central girls will be on the road on Tuesday for a 7 p.m. contest against Mullins. Lee Central’s boys will be at home against Waccamaw on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The Scott’s Branch girls will travel to Latta on Monday for a 7 p.m. contest. The Scott’s Branch boys will be at home against Hemingway on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The SCISA Region II-3A semifinals will be played on Monday at Sumter County Civic Center. The girls games
will have No. 2 seed Thomas Sumter Academy taking on Orangeburg Prep at 3:30 p.m., while No. 1 seed Wilson Hall will meet Laurence Manning Academy at 6:30. The boys games will have No. 2 Wilson Hall taking on No. 3 OP at 5 and No. 1 LMA will meet TSA at 8. The Generals beat Calhoun Academy in a play-in game on Saturday at the OP gymnasium. In the SCACS 2A state playoffs, the Sumter Christian School boys will play host to Maranatha Christian on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. The SCS girls will travel to Florence on Monday to face Maranatha in a quarterfinal game at 5:30 p.m.
PREP BASKETBALL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE SCHSL MONDAY
Girls 3A Berkeley at Lakewood, 7 p.m. Hilton Head Island at Crestwood, 7 p.m. 1A Scott’s Branch at Latta, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY
Girls 4A River Bluff at Sumter, 6 p.m. 2A Lee Central at Mullins, 7 p.m. Boys 3A Beaufort at Crestwood, 7 p.m. Lakewood at Orangeburg-Wilkinson, 7 p.m. 1A
Hemingway at Scott’s Branch, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Boys 4A South Aiken at Sumter, 7 p.m. 2A Waccamaw at Lee Central, 7 p.m.
SCISA REGION II-3A At Sumter County Civic Center
MONDAY
Thomas Sumter vs. Orangeburg Prep (Girls), 3:30 p.m. Wilson Hall vs. Orangeburg Prep (Boys), 5 p.m. Wilson Hall vs. Laurence Manning (Girls), 6:30 p.m. Laurence Manning vs. Thomas Sumter (Boys), 8 p.m.
Sumter Christian School’s T.J. Barron puts up a shot during a recent practice at the SCS gymnasium. The Bears host Marantha Christian on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the second round of the SCACS 2A state playoffs.
THOMAS SUMTER Brunson 23, Stengel 20, York 6, Decker 6. CALHOUN Spiers 22, Lewis 10, Moore 7, Conger 6, Fleming 5.
Crestwood’s Devin Nelson, left, and Sumter’s Brandon Parker will look to help lead their respective teams to victory next week when the SCHSL state playoffs begin. Both teams with be at home.
BEGINS
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TUESDAY JV Girls Championship — Wilson Hall vs. Thomas Sumter, 3:30 p.m. JV Boys Championship — Wilson Hall vs. Laurence Manning, 4:45 p.m. Varsity Girls Championship, 6 p.m. Varsity Boys Championship, 7:30 p.m.
SCACS MONDAY
Girls 2A Sumter Christian at Christian, 5:30 p.m.
Maranatha
TUESDAY Boys Maranatha Christian Christian, 5:30 p.m.
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BEARS FROM PAGE B1 beaten Maranatha Christian twice this year, 74-55 on Jan. 2 and 71-45 on Jan. 9. Senior TJ Barron said all the team has to do is continue what it’s been doing all season long. “They’ve got a good team, but both times we played them we played out of our heads,” Barron said. “As long as we play like we’ve been playing we can compete against anybody. It’s big playing a team that you already know everything about because we know they have some good guards, but we know if we shut them down we’ll be fine.” Barron leads the team with a scoring average of 16.8 points per game, one of three players scoring in double figures. Sophomore Desmond Sigler averages 13.3 while junior Lamel Sanders is the only player to average a double-double at 10.2 points and 10 rebounds a game. The team has been excelling offensively, averaging 61.6 points per game and shooting around 45 percent from the floor. Baker said the reason for the team’s success this year has been its unselfishness. “We’ve got talent, there’s no doubt about it, but the biggest asset to them is they really respect each other, their teamwork is great,” he explained. “They get the ball to the open person and nobody cares who scores. They don’t care who’s the high scorer as long as we score, that’s their philosophy.” The team is comprised
of two seniors (Barron and Aaron Pekuri), two juniors (Sanders and Daniel Barwick), four sophomores (Donzell Metz, Jeffrey Jones, Chris Leverette and Sigler) and one freshman (Grayson Dennis). The team has also gotten contributions from seventh-grader Kobe Barnett, eighth-graders Lawrence Fraser and Joshua DeWitt and sixth-grader Jonathan Fraser. “(Assistant head coach) Tom Cope, who is the JV head coach, has been instrumental in helping this team succeed this year,” Baker explained. ‘He helped bring up most of the younger boys who moved up from the JV squad that won last year’s state championship.” The Bears play a zone defense and rarely switch to man-to-man due to its depth and experience on the team. Baker said he likes his team’s chances to advance, but he has stressed the importance of playing better defense. “If we’re not outmanned, and that could be an issue, like I said depth is a big factor with us,” he explained. “But if we can play a game with anybody in the Christian association without getting in big foul trouble and losing one of our key players then, yes, I think we can compete with almost anybody.” “If we keep playing the way we’ve been playing all season,” was Sigler’s response when asked what it would take to win a state championship. “If we change anything that’s when we’ll go downhill, but if we just play it like another game we’ll just continue to win.”
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