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turnover ratio and steals per game. He holds YHC’s records for most assists and steals in a game, and registered nine “double doubles” (points and assists) this season. Adams, the all-time scorer for the Mountain Lions with 1,573 points in his career, was named the conference’s Player of the Young Harris College’s basketball teams Week in January and was second in the displayed fierce determination in the league for free throws and free throws “Valley of Doom” as they completed their per game. first season in the Peach Belt Conference The women’s basketball team played (PBC). The men’s team finished with a the final nine games of the season 17-9 overall record and a 12-7 conference without their leading scorer and Malcolm Jackson mark, landing in second place in the PBC rebounder, junior forward Ladondra West Division and fourth overall in the Johnson, of Athens, Ga., due to an injury. conference. The women’s team finished 13-13 overall and 7-12 She led the Peach Belt in scoring and field in the league. goal percentage, finishing among the top 10 According to Men’s Basketball Head Coach Pete Herrmann, the Ladondra Johnson in rebounding. She became the first team team’s success was made even sweeter considering the Mountain member to score 1,000 points in her career Lions were picked 13th in the 14-team league in the preseason poll. and led the Mountain Lions to 10 wins this season. “We were in contention for the PBC West Division up until the The Mountain Lions led the conference in field goal percentage last day of the season,” said Herrmann. “The core players had and finished third in three-point field goal percentage and fourth a very solid season and played a highly entertaining brand of in assists per game and opponents field goal percentage. basketball. They set a good standard for future years.” Junior Lauren Smith, of Colbert, YHC joined PBC champion University of South Carolina averaged 10.9 points in Peach Belt Aiken as the only institutions to have three players named to contests, led the league with 164 assists the 2013 PBC All-Conference Team. Senior and was fourth in steals. Sophomore Malcolm Jackson, of Atlanta, was named to Keta Robinette, of Jasper, Tenn., finished the Second Team, while junior Frank Adams, third in the conference with 62 threeof Stone Mountain, and senior Vince Martin, pointers and averaged 10 points in of Marietta, were Third Team selections. PBC games. The team’s second-leading Jackson was second in the league in scorer, sophomore Peyton Robertson, of scoring, scoring average and field goals. Gainesville, was fifth in the league hitting He tied the College’s record for most half of her field goals. points in a game when he scored 38 in a “We were competitive in nearly every double-overtime victory over Azusa Pacific league game this season,” said Women’s Keta Robinette University in November. Martin led the Basketball Head Coach Brenda Paul. “We Frank Adams Peach Belt in assists, assists per game, assist/ will have everyone back next year after competing well in one of the top Division II leagues in the country.”
Play Hard in the Peach Belt
Fans S how P urple P ride in the Valley of D oom Young Harris College hosted the first-ever “Purple Out” on Feb. 7 as the men’s and women’s basketball teams took on the University of North Georgia at home. Students lined up to receive free Chick-fil-A and an official T-shirt, and all Mountain Lions fans enjoyed contests and giveaways throughout the games. The evening’s “Purple Passion Spirit Award” went to the Sigma Beta Sigma sorority and Upsilon Delta Sigma fraternity. YHC’s women’s basketball team won 71-64, while the men’s team lost in a close match 85-77.
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