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The Paper | Thursday, March 5, 2015
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Mill Creek’s Melissa Hanken (10) competes against a Dacula defender during last Friday’s 5-0 win.
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of a Dacula player and past the keeper to give the Lady Hawks a 3-0 lead. Navas made the score 4-0 with 17 minutes left when she received the ball close to the net and booted it home. “Basically, tonight I was at the right place at the right time,” said Navas, whose two goals led all scorers. She also had an assist. “They were all created by other players, balls that were played in and I just happened to be there for a one-touch finish.” Erin Johnson ended the Lady Hawks’ scoring when her shot attempt bounced off of a Dacula defender and back to her. She didn’t squander the secondchance opportunity, making the score 5-0. Dacula 2, Mill Creek 1 The Hawks held rival
Dacula scoreless and controlled the ball for the first 59 minutes of the game, but gave up two goals in the final 21 minutes in last Friday’s defeat. “This team is still trying to find itself,” said head coach Sean Garnett. “I feel like we’re living in the shadow of what we accomplished in the past. “We finally scored. That was our first goal of the season. That’s not going to cut it. Hopefully it’ll make these guys a little upset and make them want to do what it takes to come out on top.” The first half was dominated by the Hawks, who didn’t get many shot attempts off. They thought they had a goal with 18:36 left in the first half when a penalty kick from 40 yards away found the net, but the referees ruled there was interference with the keeper and the score remained 0-0. Dacula’s first goal found
the net 62 minutes into the game when Alex Cedeno connected on a 35-yard strike, which was just over the hands of Mill Creek goalkeeper Jason Chavez. “We were coming after them and I feel like we were more in control, but they just took a shot, something our guys haven’t done. They just don’t want to take shots,” Garnett said. The Hawks tied the game with nine minutes left on a header by David Quiceno after a great serve from Billy Johnson. With seven minutes left in the game, Dacula keeper Bryce Lackey made two great saves seconds apart to keep the game tied at 1-1. Nearly 25 seconds and a couple of passes later, Jaison Brown got past every Mill Creek defender with the ball and put a shot past Chavez to give Dacula the go-ahead goal and a 2-1 advantage.
LACROSSE: Hawks down Etowah; Lady Hawks pound Norcross BY CHARLES PHELPS
cphelps@clickthepaper.com
The Mill Creek Hawks’ lacrosse team upended the Etowah Eagles 13-10 last Saturday and host Parkview this Friday. Junior Eddie Grieco scored four goals. Seniors Blake Christian and Brandon Savoie each scored two goals. Five other Hawks scored a goal. Nick Eldridge and Ian Miller each recorded two assists. Head coach Bo Adams called Etowah a “great” team and the win was good for his squad’s “confidence” and proved they can “play with anybody.” “It was awesome,” he said. The Hawks recorded three goals in the opening seven minutes of the game (Blake Siegmund, Colton Eubanks and Grieco) to take an early 3-0 lead. Grieco added his second later in the quarter. Etowah added back-toback goals at the end of the first and start of the second quarter to cut the Hawks’ lead to 4-3. The Hawks responded with two goals (Miller and Christian) The Eagles added another pair of goals to cut the margin back to one before Eldridge connected (7-5). They held a 7-6 lead at halftime. The Eagles scored two
goals in the opening minutes of the third quarter to take an 8-7 lead. But, the lead last only six seconds as Savoie scored his first goal with 10:13 left in the third to tie the game at 8-8. Junior Zach Roper broke the tie when he received a pass from Grieco and put the ball into the net (9-8). Forty-eight seconds later, the Hawks found themselves tied at 9-9 after an Eagles’ goal. Christian broke the tie with the go-ahead goal (109), his second of the game. When Grieco added his third goal the Hawks’ lead was 11-9 . The Eagles cut the deficit to one, 11-10, with 9:21 left in the game, but Savoie added his second goal (12-10) and Grieco finished the Hawks’ scoring with his fourth goal (13-10). They defeated Norcross 15-0 on Monday night. Lady Hawks 21, Lady Blue Devils 1 Maddie Peek recorded four first-half goals, including three straight (5-0, 6-0, 7-0), and an assist during Monday night’s season-opening win. Dallas Thomas added three goals (1-0, 3-0, 18-1) and an assist. Amya Hudson scored two goals (8-0, 10-0) and racked up three assists. Head coach Brian Williamson said the team did
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everything he asked them to do and called their play “awesome.” “I thought they (the girls) showed up well,” he explained. “They were so intense preparing for the game. They played hard. They played well, even up to the end. They moved the ball around well. They did a lot of good things, so I was really proud with the way they played.” They play Northview at home today.
Donavon Spry, left, and brother Robert Spry, right, qualified for the youth state wrestling tournament this past weekend. Donavon finished first in the 6-and-under 37-pound weight class. Robert finished first in the 6-and-under 43-pound weight class. They also competed at the Liberty Nationals two weeks ago in St. Joseph, Mo. Donavon finished first. Robert finished fourth. They competed against over 3,000 kids from 47 states.
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Continued from 1B Panthers managed just one hit. Griggs’ stellar pitching day resulted in seven strikeouts. He left in the sixth. “You can’t say enough about how the way Chris pitched tonight,” Fountain added. “He pitched his butt off. And, not to mention he did a good job with the bat as well. Griggs said, “Flowery Branch’s first four batters are lights out, so I was doing my best to hit the corners and throw as many curveballs as I could to sit them down, and I did that.” Even away from the mound, Griggs’ stellar play continued at the plate as he knocked Vickers home with a text book hit-and-run play. The Panthers led 10-3. The Falcons weren’t going away lightly in the last inning as they cut the deficit to three runs (10-7) after the Panthers committed three errors. Sartain finally put the Falcons away by striking out the last two batters for the save.
The Panthers allowed three hits on the night. “I was really confident in myself at the plate tonight,” Sartain stated. “My teammates put me in a good position offensively with good at-bats, so I credit my team. “They called on me to finish the game. I just focused on throwing strikes and giving my defense a chance to get outs. It was a great win for us.” Fountain added, “We played some really sloppy ball at the end, but maybe it’s good that it happened now and not later in the season. When you play a good team like Flowery Branch you can’t let them hang around when you have opportunities to close the door. “I feel bad for Chuckie (Allen). We did a poor job defensively behind him and couldn’t help him out. But, Sartain came in cold and made some really good pitches to finish the game for us. I’m proud of our team tonight. We have to learn how to finish games, because if you do that again, it will come back to bite you, but we will take the win and prepare for our next game.”
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