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ThursdayFebruary 21, 2013

BY STEVE KEENANSPORTS EDITOR

Playing without a keystarter, the Fayetteville Pi-rate girls still had enough inthe tank to defeat Ansted 25-19 to earn their fifth straightcounty middle school basket-ball championship Friday.

Valley defeated Collins 38-33 to capture the top boys tro-phy.

A stout defensive effort pro-pelled the Pirates to the victo-ry, said coach Phil Samples.Fayetteville scored five pointsin the fourth while holdingAnsted scoreless.

“We pride ourselves on ourdefense,” Samples said. “Wetold our girls if they (Ansted)didn’t score in the last quar-ter, we would be champions.

“These girls increased theirdefensive intensity to holdAnsted scoreless in the finalquarter.”

The Pirates played withoutFaith Norris, their co-captainand second-leading scorer,who suffered a concussion inthe tournament openeragainst Valley.

“We had to make some mi-nor lineup changes, which Ithought the girls adjusted tovery well,” said Samples. “Ithink the emotions from nothaving Faith able to play fi-nally caught up with ourgirls.”

After trailing by one point,9-8, Ansted moved into a 15-9lead on the strength of scoringfrom Mallory Stonestreet,Jennifer Wilson and HaleyNickell, with Nickell’s stealand subsequent free throwpushing the lead to six pointswith 1:42 left until halftime.

“We called a timeout andtried to calm them down,” saidSamples. “Kendall Malaythen decided to take things in-to her own hands, scoring thelast seven points of the (sec-ond) quarter, giving us a 16-15 lead at halftime.

“It seems like we play wellwhen we get down.”

Malay’s three-point play intransition with six secondsleft helped the Pirates regain

the lead at the break.“Phil Samples has a way of

working magic with thosegirls,” said Ansted coachLeonard Varner Jr. “We gotouthustled.

“I felt good about the waymy girls played. They (Fayet-teville) earned the win.”

After concluding the seasonat 13-5, Varner said he seesthe program making obviousprogress.

“Two years ago, I was happyto get one win,” he said. “I’mtickled to death.

“And we’ve got some girls tobuild on.”

“This feels probably betterthan the other four (titles),”Samples said. “This team hadto face a lot of adversity.”

Malay, the girls tourney

MVP, wound up with 18points to lead Fayetteville (16-4).

Stonestreet and Wilsonscored six each for the Trail-blazers.

In the semifinal round,Fayetteville eased by Valley42-18 following an 11-10 firstquarter.

Malay tallied 19 points andNorris had nine to lead the Pi-rates. Others in the scoringcolumn were: HannahFranklin, 6; Caroline Fenton,4; Rachel Mankins, 2; and Sa-vannah Kincaid, 2.

Paris Fairfax and JerseyThompson scored six each forValley.

The Pirate defense forced 22turnovers.

The Meadow Bridge girlsdefeated Valley 37-18 in theconsolation game.

Shauna Harless scored 15and Micah Farr 14 to pace theWildcats (9-9). Other scorerswere: Makayla Church, 4;Taylor Smith, 2; and KayliePersinger, 2.

Fairfax tallied eight pointsto lead the Greyhounds.

On the opening night of thetournament, the Greyhoundgirls topped Collins 37-32.

Thompson tallied a game-high 16 points for Valley.

Madison Lilly scored 13 topace Collins. Also in the scor-ing column were: EmilyReeves, 3; Morgan Adkins, 2;Cydney Thomas, 3; BrookeDaniels, 4; and Tae’a Scruggs,7.

For a complete rundown oftourney awards and morephotos, see future issues.

Ansted 6 9 4 0 — 19Fayetteville 7 9 4 5 — 25AnstedMallory Stonestreet 2 2-2 6, Jennifer Wilson 30-0 6, Haley Nickell 2 1-3 5, Makenna Nickell0 2-2 2, Jacklyn Nuckols 0 0-1 0. Totals: 7 5-8 19.FayettevilleKendall Malay 8 1-3 18, Caroline Fenton 1 1-2 3, Hannah Franklin 1 0-0 2, Savannah Kin-caid 1 0-0 2. Totals: 11 2-5 25.

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The Fayetteville Middle School girls and managers and their coaches pose for a photograph afterwinning their fifth consecutive county basketball title last week.

Tournament games in theMount Hope Youth Basket-ball League are ongoing, withaction to conclude Saturday,Feb. 23. Scheduled starttimes will be from 10 a.m. to3 p.m. on Saturday.

For more on the league,visit Mount Hope Youth Bas-ketball League on Facebook.

Following are Week 6 re-sults:

KindergartenOwls 13Pintos 2

Owls — Tyler Snyder 3, IsaiahRinehart 2, Hayden Hiser 1, Clay-ton Wood 1, Rubin Wood 1, TyAustin 5Pintos — Devin Banister 1, LillyDavis 1

Palominos 5Shetlands 4

Palominos —- Aydrean Hunt 2,Jacob Meadows 2, Isaac An-gelona 1Shetlands —- Montana Carrico1, Alonzo Dillon 1, Landon Jones1, Turtle Walton 1

Grades 1-2Leopards 14Dolphins 9

Leopards — Ty Wilburn 6,Chance Minor 6, Logan Lemon 2Dolphins — Ian Maynor 7, JayJones 2

Bears 10Lions 8

Bears — Noah McClung 5,Davion Parker 4, Isaac Under-wood 1Lions -— Adam Davis 4, JohnRose 4

Hawks 9Tigers 1

Hawks — Zayne Anderson 7,Nicholas Treadway 2Tigers —- Alan Baxter 1

Grades 3-4Panthers 15Stallions 14

Panthers — Ryan Adkins 6,Raizon Wells 4, Caleb Austin 2,Dylon Osborne 2, KeynanRichardson-Cook 1Stallions — Cam Elmore 6, J.R.Maynor 4, Cade Maynor 2, Natal-ie Underwood 2

Bulldogs 35Falcons 4

Bulldogs — Ezra Drumheller 15,Jaden Lowe 6, Te’Amo Shelton6, John Watson 4, Shali Hutchi-son 2, Andrew McKinney 2Falcons — Khalil Gray 2, Tim Lo-effler 2

Cardinals 23Mavericks 21

Cardinals — Kaden Smallwood13, Maddex McMillion 8, HunterWood 2Mavericks — Leonard Farrow18, Moses Manns 2, AntwjuanPagan 1

Grades 5-6Ponies 27

Broncos 11

Ponies — Antonio Ovalle 10,Wesley Daniels 6, Benjamin An-derson 4, Andrea Staples 4, Bri-an Manley 2, Madison Bailey 1Broncos — Marcos Ovalle 5, Jay-den Hinton 4, Shyan Wells 2

Eagles 30Wildcats 11

Eagles — Justin Bragg 10, Ja-son Manns 10, Tre King 8,Zhanayea Christian 2Wildcats — Rhodell Allen 5, JayTucker 4, Cameron Underwood 2

Jaguars 31Cougars 24

Jaguars — Alec Love 16, Phix-ious Gray 11, NaNa Jackson 2,Keyanna Jones 2Cougars — Taih Richardson 14,Direick Allen 8, Danielle Stover 2Grades 7-8

Sharks 46Hornets 23

Sharks — Xavier Torrence 14,John Waddell 6, Dylan Hudson 4,Cohen Blevins 2, Philip Endicott2, Chase Clark 1, BlakeWingrove 17Hornets — Larid Price 8,Michael Hodge 5, Curtis Johnson4, Savannah Scarbrough 2

Cobras 32Bengals 18

Cobras — Ethan Waddell 13,Tathan Gray 8, Chandler Hayner7, Dakota Burnett 2, Alex Lan-ham 2Bengals — Isaiah Newsom 10,Ryan Muse 6, Daryl Shelton 2

Meadow Bridge trimmed Valley 37-18 in the girls consolationcontest.

Fayetteville’s Kendall Malay is guarded closely by Ansted’s Mal-lory Stonestreet in the county championship game won by the Pi-rates. Malay was the tournament MVP.

Pirate girls win fifth straight

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Oak Hill’s Joey Re leans in on a baseline jumper during theRed Devils’ 55-46 loss to Liberty Saturday. The Red Devils,who fell 83-42 to Winfield Tuesday, will renew their rivalrywith Class AAA power Woodrow Wilson at 7:30 p.m. tonightat the Lilly Center.

Baseline strong

MHYBL enters tourney play

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BY STEVE KEENANSPORTS EDITOR

As it had all season,defense helped lift theValley Greyhounds totheir third straight boysFayette County middleschool basketball cham-pionship Friday.

The Greyhound boysfound themselves in a10-point hole early be-fore rallying for a 38-33defeat of Collins to con-clude a 16-3 campaign.

“The defense was thekey the whole season,”said Valley assistantcoach John Whitt.“(With shooting thatwasn’t the best at times)We had to play good de-fense.”

Boys tournament

MVP Tracy Conliffe ledValley with 13 pointsand 17 rebounds, whileNathan Kincaid con-tributed 12 points — allon 3-point field goals —and had five boards.Devin Williams collectedfive points, five re-bounds and four steals.

“This one means a lotmore to us, because no-body gave us a chance,”said Whitt. “These kidsworked hard all season,and we got it done.”

Collins pulled to with-in 31-30 on a MichaelMartin 3-pointer withunder 2:00 remaining,but a turnover with 1:10to play gave Valley anopportunity, and Kin-caid stepped up with acrucial 3-pointer from

the left corner, makingit 34-30 with 0:57 to go.The lead grew to 36-31on a pair of free throwsby Spencer Dean, thenWilliams canned bothends of a one-and-onewith 10 seconds left togive Valley its final mar-gin.

“(The week before) wefound out we were goingto be down another guy,”said CMS coach AndyKees, whose team had toreadjust its lineup dueto losing another starter(Collins finished theyear with only two of itsoriginal starters stillplaying). “But that’spart of it. It’s not an ex-cuse for losing.

“It was a tale of twohalves. We executed andran our offense and(played pretty well de-fensively) in the firsthalf. Then, Valley wenton a little run and westarted pressing a littlebit and got tight.”

Collins didn’t help it-self by missing eight ofits 13 free throw at-tempts and misfiring onseveral easy shots, Keesadded.

“Tracy played great,Nate Kincaid stepped upbig and had a hugethree, and Spencer andDevin were 4-for-4 fromthe foul line in the last15 seconds,” said Whitt.

The Little Devils (8-10) were led by a game-high 21-point effort byMartin, which includeda trio of 3-pointers.Sixth-grader Khori Bassadded 10.

Collins led 10-9 after aConliffe transition buck-et midway through thesecond period, but theLittle Devils later gotfive straight points fromBass to go ahead 19-9with 1:38 left until half-time.

“We started out really

slow and turned the ballover,” said Whitt. “Assoon as they were up 10we went on a little run.”

Valley — sparked byfour straight Conliffepoints — eventuallypulled to within 22-20and wound up leading25-24 heading into thefourth period.

Whitt felt a 38-24 set-back to Collins late inthe regular season gavethe ‘Hounds impetus fora successful postseason.“We all played badagainst Collins at home.That loss was good forus; it got everyone’s at-tention.”

Fayetteville ended asuccessful 15-5 seasonby romping over Ansted50-26 in the boys conso-lation.

Will Fenton paced thePirates with 17 points,and Ricky Meadows andMicah Bates chipped in11 each. Other scorerswere: Dalton Dempsey,4; Steve Price, 2; C.J.Dooley, 4; and CalebChamberlin, 1.

Jacob Allport ledAnsted with sevenmarkers. Other scorerswere: Matt Skaggs, 3;Noah Minor, 4; JamesCarte, 2; Trent Brown-ing, 2; Nathan Han-shew, 1; Colin Dempsey,4; Austin Isaacs, 2; andCurtis Gray, 1.

In the semifinals, Val-ley endured a difficultchallenge from Fayet-teville before advancingby a 31-26 score.

“They jumped on us(the Pirates led 16-13 athalftime),” said Whitt.

The Greyhounds wereled by 10 points and 16rebounds from Conliffeand 10 points and sixboards from Kincaid.Other scorers were: Jay-lun Craig, 7; RyanCopeland, 2; and Dean,2. Craig’s output includ-

ed a “huge” three-pointplay in the final secondswith Valley clinging to atwo-point lead.

Fenton led Fayet-teville with 11 points.Also in the scoring col-umn were: DaltonDempsey, 5; MarcusLively, 7; Meadows, 2;and Bates, 1.

“We played great de-fense,” said Whitt, whopraised Williams for his

prevent efforts againstMeadows.

ValleyTracy Conliffe 6 1-4 13, Nathan Kin-caid 4 0-0 12, Devin Williams 1 3-85, Jaylun Craig 2 0-0 4, SpencerDean 1 2-2 4, Ryan Copeland 0 0-10. Totals: 14 6-15 38.CollinsMichael Martin 8 2-4 21, Khori Bass3 3-6 10, Jacob Cassidy 1 0-0 2,William Gibson 0 0-3 0. Totals: 12 5-13 33.V 5 11 9 13 — 38C 8 12 4 9 — 33

Valley topples Collins in boys middle school tourney

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Michael Martin clears a rebound for Collins in itstournament final loss to Valley Friday.

Valley’s Tracy Conliffe shoots over the defense of Is-siah Moore of Collins.

BY STEVE KEENANSPORTS EDITOR

Off the top of his head,Richie Cantrell couldn’tremember his team’soverall record.

However, he was sureof one thing followingValley’s matchup withMeadow Bridge in aClass A Region 3, Section2 girls basketball semifi-nal at Smithers Tuesday.

“Right now, we’re 1-0,”exclaimed the first-yearGreyhound coach.

No. 2 seed Valley (12-6) jumped ahead early,withstood a brief second-quarter flurry by Class ANo. 10 Meadow Bridgeand controlled the actionin the second half enroute to a 63-53 triumphto set up a Section 2championship matchupversus top-seeded Fayet-teville Thursday at theFayette County Soldiersand Sailors MemorialBuilding. The Pirates de-feated Midland Trail 53-43 Tuesday.

“Our senior playersheld the line and ouryounger players steppedup,” said Cantrell. “Thekey was following ourshots and getting second-ary rebounds, and welimited (MeadowBridge’s) number ofshots.”

“It seemed like theywere just one step aheadof us all night,” saidMeadow Bridge coachSteve Taylor. “I tried touse my timeouts to keep(the score) inside 10, buthats off to Valley.

“They did a great job.”Valley used one good

surge to basically put thegame away. After theWildcats’ Sarah Flesh-man scored a two-pointerto pull her team to with-in three points, 26-23,with about 4:30 left inthe first half, Valleyclosed the half with 11consecutive points totake command with a 37-23 halftime lead.

Alexis Payne initiatedthe crucial spurt with aputback at the 4:20mark and followed thatwith a runner in thelane 50 seconds later,making it 30-23. Team-

mate Kelsey Bird thenscored a two-point goal,which was followed byan Abby Buchan 3-pointer and a MeadowBridge timeout.

Payne finished therun — and a 19-pointfirst half for the seniorstandout — with anoth-er offensive putback tocreate the 14-point half-time cushion. Buchansupported Payne’s scor-ing with 11 points of herown in the opening twoquarters.

“Everything Paynewas throwing up wentin,” said an exasperatedTaylor. “Then, we puttwo (defenders) on herin the second half, andBuchan hurt us.”

While Payne wasscoreless in the secondhalf, Buchan helpedkick the Valley transi-tion game into high gearduring that span byscoring 20 of her game-high 31 points.

“We got what we callour transition offensegoing and filled thelanes,” said Cantrell. “Ithink we’re peaking atthe right time.”

Valley’s lead reached17 points on three differ-ent occasions in the sec-ond half before MeadowBridge cut into thedeficit slightly in theclosing minutes.

Caitlin White tallied14 points to pace Mead-ow Bridge. Fleshmanchipped in 12, AllisonGilkerson 10 and AllyRedden eight. Leadingscorer Chandra Harrahwas limited to fourpoints — partly due toillness she’s been suffer-ing and partly due todogged defense providedby Valley’s Alaysha Tay-lor, whom Cantrellpraised for her efforts.

“She’s really come for-ward,” Cantrell said.“She didn’t complain,and she worked hard.”

“Chandra’s been see-ing a lot of box-and-onethe last month,” Taylorsaid. “She showed up toplay.

“Anybody that scores1,400 (career points),that’s amazing.”

Meadow Bridge endsits season at 16-6.

“I‘m really proud ofour girls,” said Taylor.“We’ll be back.”

Fayetteville and Val-ley split during the regu-lar season, with theGreyhounds winning 55-52 on Dec. 17 and the Pi-rates whipping Valley66-45 on Jan. 28.

Thursday’s game willtip at 7 p.m.

Meadow Bridge (16-6)Chandra Harrah 1 2-2 4, Sarah Flesh-man 5 2-4 12, Allison Gilkerson 3 3-510, Ally Redden 4 0-0 8, Caitlin White5 3-4 14, Courtney Mullins 1 0-0 2,Sam Adkins 0 0-0 0, Brittany Pen-nington 1 0-0 3, Mary Winters 0 0-00, Erica Pugh 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 10-15 53.Valley (12-6)Alexis Payne 8 3-3 19, Abby Buchan11 7-8 31, Kelsey Bird 3 0-0 7, Gra-cyn Grubb 1 0-2 2, Emily Beard 1 0-22, Emily Smallman 1 0-0 2, TennelGreen 0 0-0 0, Lauren Pleva 0 0-0 0,Alaysha Taylor 0 0-0 0, Chelsey Lively0 0-0 0. Totals: 25 10-15 63.MB 11 12 16 14 — 53V 17 20 14 12 — 633-point goals — MB: 3 (Gilkerson,White, Pennington); V: 3 (Buchan 2,Bird). Fouled out - None.

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In other tournamentgames:

Fayetteville 53Midland Trail 43Class A No. 8 Fayet-

teville fought off apesky Midland Trail

squad inthe semi-f i n a lround ofthe Re-gion 3,Section 2t o u r n a -ment.

The Pi-r a t e swere ledby Jessi-c aB r o w na n dA v i n aSedlockwith 22p o i n t sa p i e c e .Sedlocks c o r e d16 of herpoints in

the decisive fourthquarter, and Brown col-lected 11 rebounds.

Madison Syner ledthe Lady Patriots with15 points.

Fayetteville (16-6)hosts Valley Thursdayfor the sectional cham-pionship. Midland TrailKennedy Cochran 1 2-3 5, Jesika Cooper 10-0 2, Emily Carte 3 0-0 6, Marissa Work-man 3 0-0 7, Emily Keeney 4 0-0 8, Madi-son Syner 7 1-2 15. Totals: 18 4-5 43.Fayetteville (16-6)Jessica Brown 6 10-14 22, Avina Sedlock 78-11 22, Maddie Pritt 2 4-6 9, Erica Hogan0 0-0 0, Katherine Peelish 0 0-0 0. Totals:15 22-31 53.MT 20 3 7 13 — 43F 15 11 7 20 — 533-point goals — MT: 3 (Workman, Ken-ney 2); F: 1 (Pritt). Fouled out — MT(Workman).

Shady Spring 65Oak Hill 24

Morgan Hylton scored

a game-high 17p o i n t sa n dK e l s e aC o l l i n sadded 14to leadt h eS h a d y

Spring Tigers past OakHill in the openinground of Class AAA Re-gion 3, Section 2 playMonday. Hylton fin-ished the night withfive 3-point baskets.

Kaylee Dickensoncontinued her steadyplay, scoring 11 points,and McKenzie Severtadded nine points for

Shady Spring (8-14).Kaitlyn Goodman led

the Red Devils with 10points.

Oak HillAlyssa Barron 1 0-0 2, Kaitlyn Good-man 5 0-4 10, Caelea Teel 1 0-0 2,Sarah Kessler 1 2-2 4, Destiny Davis2 0-2 4, Jasmine Albury 1 0-0 2. To-tals: 11 2-8 24.Shady Spring (8-14)Kaylee Dickenson 4 3-6 11, MorganHylton 6 0-2 17, McKenzie Severt 33-6 9, Brooklyn Meador 1 0-0 2,Kelsea Collins 6 2-4 14, MorganBrown 2 0-0 4, Keyra Chitwood 0 1-21, Rebecca Rhudy 0 4-6 4, EmilyRainey 0 1-2 1, Marlana Adkins 1 0-0 2, Heather Ratcliff 1 0-2 2. Totals:24 14-30 65.OH 6 10 4 4 — 24SS 18 15 10 20 — 653-point goals — OH: None; SS: 5(Hylton 5). Fouled out — OH (Good-man, Teel).

Valley, Fayetteville advance in basketball section play

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Valley’s Gracyn Grubb, center, claims a rebound in front of Meadow Bridge’sCaitlin White Tuesday night in the Greyhounds’ win in Smithers. Looking on isValley’s Chelsey Lively.

Sedlock

Syner

Goodman

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Class A No. 9 Valleyearned the top seed innext week’s Region 3,Section 2 boys highschool basketball tour-nament.

The Greyhounds andNo. 2 seed GreenbrierWest will each receivebyes on the openingnight of Feb. 25 beforeplaying their first

games on Wednesday,Feb. 27.

Following Valley andGreenbrier West in theseeding are MidlandTrail, Richwood, Mead-ow Bridge and Fayet-teville.

Tug Valley, last year’sClass AA state champswho moved down to thesingle-A ranks this win-ter, is the top seed inSection 1, and Greater

Beckley Christian is No.2. That section play be-gins Saturday, Feb. 23.

Section 2 pairings areas follows (each game isin the home gym of theteam with the betterseeding):

Monday, Feb. 25■ Meadow Bridge at Richwood, 7p.m.

■ Fayetteville at Midland Trail, 7p.m.

Wednesday, Feb.27

■ Richwood-Meadow Bridge winnerat Valley, 7 p.m.■ Midland Trail-Fayetteville winner atGreenbrier West, 7 p.m.

Friday, March 1■ Championship, 7 p.m.

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Greyhound boysclaim top seed

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Fayetteville’s Aaron Krise drives to the basket lastweek against Midland Trail’s Austin Burdette in a Pi-rate loss. The two teams will be among thosestatewide beginning postseason play in the comingdays.

Trail’s Tyler Skaggs passes to a teammate in thesecond half of his team’s 62-54 victory. Defending isFayetteville’s Zach Semple.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

MONTGOMERY —Both WVU Tech basket-ball teams were victori-ous Saturday on SeniorDay.

The men improvedtheir record to 18-10with an impressive 89-69 defeat of NCAA Divi-sion II foe Central State.

Tech, which led 40-26at halftime, was pow-ered by senior DavidRawlinson’s 12-point,21-assist, four-steal per-formance. Fellow seniorTerrale Clark scored 18

points, as did FloydCampbell. Brandon Bur-graff chipped in 13points, and Jaren Mari-no scored 10 points andcleared seven rebounds.

Lee Tabb scored 18 forCentral State.

Tech plays at WVU atParkersburg on Satur-day, Feb. 23.

The Golden Bearwomen evened theirrecord at 13-13 with a61-45 conquest of PointPark.

Seniors CourtneySturdivant, Amy Gard-ner and Amber Tully

were honored.Gardner had 15 points

and eight rebounds, go-ing over the 1,000-pointcareer scoring plateau inthe process.

Sturdivant led Techwith 24 points and eightboards.

Nia Nolan contributedeight points, eight re-bounds and seven as-sists, and CheyannaLusk had four points, sixrebounds, four stealsand three assists.

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The Tech GoldenBear Alumni Associa-tion has partnered withGolden Bear Athleticsto become the titlesponsor of online livehome game broadcasts.All home games forwomen and men’s bas-ketball, baseball, soft-ball and volleyball arebroadcast via the Gold-en Bear Athletics web-site at goldenbearath-letics.com.

“This sponsorship is a

way for the Associationto support Tech andgive back to the schoolthat we love,” saidSteve Claywell, presi-dent of the Tech GoldenBear Alumni Associa-tion. “By providing theathletic teams with away to broadcast theirgames, alumni, as wellas parents of currentstudents, can keep intouch with the campusno matter where theyare located.”

To learn more aboutthe Tech Golden BearAlumni Association vis-it the website at alum-ni.wvutech.edu. Mem-bership is extended toall dues-paying mem-bers of New River StateCollege, West VirginiaInstitute of Technology,the Community andTechnical College ofWest Virginia Instituteof Technology and WestVirginia University In-stitute of Technology.

WVU Tech teams secure weekend basketball victories

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Terrale Clark makes a strong move to the basket during WVU Tech’s recent 100-97 win over Ohio Mid-Western College. Clark scored 25 to support David Rawlin-son’s 26-point output in the contest.

Tech’s Kornilous Donnell and Jaren Marino are involved in a battle for a rebound.

Sports briefsThe Clay County High School

annual 3 on 3 basketball tour-nament fundraiser will be heldon March 16 at Clay CountyHigh School. It will be hostedthis year by the sophomoreclass.

Teams must have at leastthree players and no more thansix players.

Deadline to enter is March8.

Cost of pre-pay will be $10per player, and cost the day ofthe tourney will be $15 perplayer.

For more information, con-tact the school or Amy Nicholsat 304-632-0220.

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North American YouthSports announced still has sev-eral remaining openings in itsannual spring youth basketballtournament at George Wash-ington High School on March22-24.

This tournament will feature10 different brackets. They in-clude 5th-6th grade boys; 5th-6th grade girls; 7th grade boys;7th grade girls; 8th grade boys;8th grade girls; 9th-10th gradeboys; 9th-10th grade girls;11th-12th grade boys; and11th-12th grade girls. Allgrades are based on the gradein which a student is currentlyenrolled.

The entry fee for this tourna-ment is $110 and guaranteeseach team a minimum of twogames. There will be awardspresented in each bracket.

The entry deadline is March1.

For additional information oran entry form, call the toll-freeNAYS spring tournament hot-line at 866-352-5915 or tour-nament director Rick Greene at304-741-1566, or go to theNAYS website atwww.northamericanyouth-sports.org.

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Coaches at the college, highschool, junior varsity, juniorhigh and recreational league(adult or youth) levels areurged to submit game resultsand/or updated statistics toThe Fayette Tribune.

When turning in scores orstatistics, coaches/statisti-cians are reminded to provide

at least the last names of par-ticipants; information will notbe accepted with only the firstname.

Spring schedules and ros-ters can be submitted whenavailable.

Information can be sent avariety of ways: via e-mail toskeenan@register-herald.com;by U.S. mail at The Fayette Tri-bune, P.O. Box 139, Oak Hill,WV 25901; by fax at 304-469-4105; or in person at the officeat 417 W. Main Street in OakHill.

Anyone with questions cancall Steve Keenan at 304-469-3375.

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Banquet tickets for the100th celebration dinner inconjunction with the boys statehigh school basketball tourna-ment in March are now onsale. The banquet will be heldon March 12.

Individual tickets are pricedat $35 while a reserve table for10 will cost $400. The goal ofthe banquet is to create a re-union for teams and individualsthat have competed in previ-ous state tournaments.

Everyone purchasing ticketswill receive a complimentarypictorial book highlighting thelast 100 years of boys basket-ball.

For information and orderingof banquet tickets, go to theWVSSAC website at www.wvs-sac.org and click on the 100thCelebration link.

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John Marshall girls basket-ball and the WV Lady Rebelswill once again host the B&BClassic Middle School GirlsBasketball Tournament onMarch 15-17 at the John Mar-shall High School gyms in GlenDale.

Entry fee is $150, with athree-game guarantee. Therewill be three age divisions: 6thgrade, 7th grade and 8thgrade.

All teams (school, all-star,travel, club, AAU, etc.) are wel-come.

For more information, e-mail:BBClassicTourney@aol.com orcall 304-281-5100.

Entry deadline is March 5.Early registration is encour-aged.

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BY GARY FAUBERTHE REGISTER-HERALD

Odd as it may seem tothose who know him, Je-remy Tincher could notrelax.

The Greenbrier Westwrestling coach doesn’tmind telling you he wasnervous during thechampionship finals ofthe Class AA/A Region 3tournament Saturday.

“Regionals just havesuch an impact on whathappens next weekend(at the state tourna-ment),” Tincher said.“Even as many times asI’ve done it, it’s stillnerve-wracking. It’s hardto control your nervesand not get nervous.”

Eventually, Tincher’smind was put at ease.

Greenbrier West wasable to hold off host Inde-pendence, finishing with246 points to claim itssecond regional champi-onship in three seasons.

The tournament hadthe promise of being abattle between two of thetop teams in the state,and that’s what fans got.West, the state’s co-No. 1team, and fourth-rankedIndy both had five indi-vidual champions, andeach will send 12 of its 14wrestlers to the statetournament that startsThursday in Huntington.

The Patriots finishedwith 219.5 points.

“Throughout the week-end, we had a couple(matches) that went badthat we thought we couldhave got,” said Patriotscoach Cliff Warden,whose team won the re-gional last season andfinished second in thestate tournament.

One of those matcheswas the 132-pound titlematch between Indepen-dence’s Colton Ward andthe Cavaliers’ DustinYoakum. Ward (38-8)has been ranked first inthe state most of the sea-son, but a two-pointmove by Yoakum at thebuzzer gave the Cavaliersophomore a 3-1 win andhis first regional title.

“They were just in thatlittle dump that Coltondoes, and I don’t thinkhe got Dustin’s hipspulled in tight enough,”Tincher said. “Dustinwas able to go aroundthere and book his foot.

When he booked the footand hipped into him —and he was behind thearm — that’s two(points). That’s how therule reads. And he gottwo right at the buzzer— wow!”

“We didn’t make upany ground. They start-ed about 26 points aheadof us going into the fi-nals,” Warden said.“They won as manymatches as we did. ThatColton Ward match wasan 8-point swing. Thatwasn’t going to make upfor 26.”

Three matches later,West ran off a string ofthree straight wins thatall but sewed up the ti-tle.

Malik Boatwright (38-0) defeated Liberty’s R.J.Elam for the 152-poundtitle. That was followedby Marquis Frazier’s vic-tory over Matthew Bai-ley of Liberty at 160.Tyler Parker (39-0) thenbeat Jake Tyler ofNicholas County for the170 championship.

Only then was Tincherable to breathe easier.

“You just want eachkid to perform to theirability. That’s all Iwant,” Tincher said. “Ifthey do that, then I’mhappy. You don’t wantthem to make a mistake

and beat themselves.”Liberty (109) was third

despite having just fivewrestlers. All five will bein the state tournament,including championsDonavan Vance at 285and Tristen Harvey at120. Cody Clifton fell toIndependence seniorChris Clark at 138.

Bluefield was fourthwith 106.5 points andFayetteville fifth with95. The Beavers’ JuliusThomas downed CodyLoudermilk of Greenbri-er West in the 220-pound finals.

Independence sopho-more Dustin Justice hada huge one-year turn-around. Last season, hewas the only Patriot notto qualify for the statetournament. But hecame full circle, beatingWest’s Jordan Tincherfor the 145 champi-onship.

Also winning champi-onships for the Patriotswere Teddy Stover at106, Will Cox at 113 andDylan McBride at 195.

Jordan Grimmett tookthe 126-pound title forthe Cavaliers.

Midland Trail’s EthanBarker, who beatNicholas’ Drew Hicks inovertime to claim the ti-tle at 182, was namedthe tournament’s Most

Outstanding Wrestler.The senior has a 33-4record going into thestate tournament. Histeammates Trisha Lee(sophomore, 113 pounds,19-18) and Devon Steele(senior, 120, 40-12) willjoin him in Huntington.

Fayetteville wrestlersadvancing include: Bai-ley Bowles (junior, 113,33-11); Troy Farrell(freshman, 126, 30-13);Tracey Lovins (senior,152, 25-15); Hunter Pul-lens (junior, 170, 29-18;and River Pullens (jun-ior, 195, 20-12).

■ ■ ■Shady Spring’s first

year in Class AAA hasbeen a success, and itcontinued Saturdaynight.

The Tigers were sec-ond to champion andhost Ripley at the ClassAAA Region 3 tourna-ment. The Vikings fin-ished with 238 points,edging Shady, which had222.

Shady will send 11wrestlers to the statetournament. The Tigershad four champions: Lo-gan Robertson (106),Johnny Forren (120),Nick Farley (138) andBrandon Stump (145).

Farley defeated Rip-ley’s Jake Martin in thefinals. Martin won the120-pound state champi-onship a year ago.

Greenbrier East fin-ished third with 168.5points and qualifiedeight for the state tour-nament. Junior CharlesWithrow (27-4) defeatedCapital’s Pat Vance forthe 182-pound title.

Woodrow Wilson (127)was fifth in the teamstandings and had eightstate qualifiers, includ-ing 113 champion Le-land Swafford.

Oak Hill was sixthwith 110.5 points andwill have five wrestlersat the state tournament.They include: CodyGillespie (sophomore,106, 37-9); MarcWilliams (junior, 132,37-3); Dakota Miller(junior, 138, 37-3); ChrisShumaker (junior, 145,35-6); and Wesley Legg(freshman, 195, 22-24).

— E-mail: gfauber@register-herald.com

Wrestlers headed to state tournament

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Ethan Barker, on top, the Most Outstanding Wrestler at last weekend’s Class AA-ARegion 3 championships, is one of the local grapplers who will participate this week-end in the state tournament in Huntington.

Oak Hill’s Marc Williams is one of five Red Devil wrestlers who qualified for thestate event.

In recent high schoolbasketball games:

Meadow Bridge 53Richwood 51

The host MeadowBridge Wildcatsoutscored Richwood 22-14 in the final period toerase a six-point leadfor the Lumberjacks.

Cody White led theWildcats( 1 0 - 1 0 )with 22p o i n t sand Lo-g a nPomeroya d d e d19.

Z a c hBennettled Rich-w o o dwith 14p o i n t s ,J o h nB a r da d d e d12 andBen We-b e rs c o r e d11.RichwoodLevi Mowery 0

4-6 4, Zach Bennett 5 1-2 14, John Bard 42-2 12, Josh Kidwell 1 0-0 2, Braden John-son 2 2-4 6, Ryan Bennett 1 0-0 2, BenWeber 5 1-2 11. Totals: 18 10-16 51.Meadow Bridge (10-10)Cody White 8 6-9 22, Cole Porter 0 1-2 1,Logan Pomeroy 7 3-4 19, Marvin Bragg 20-1 5, Kaleb Farr 2 1-3 5. Totals: 20 10-17 53.R 12 14 11 14 — 51MB 15 8 8 22 — 53

3-point goals — R: 5 (Z. Bennett 3,

Bard 2); MB: 3 (Pomeroy 2, Bragg).

Fouled out — R (Bard); MB (Porter).

Winfield 83Oak Hill 42

John Bellomy scored24 points, includingfive 3-point baskets, tolead the Winfield Gen-erals past Oak HillTuesday.

Zach Fisher added 18points, while KennethPrice and Chris Turneradded nine pointsapiece for Winfield.

Oak Hill was led byMarc Logan with 10points and Ervin Fruitwith eight.

Oak Hill (3-16) hostsClass AAA No. 2Woodrow WilsonThursday.Oak Hill (3-16)Kadrin Goodman 1 1-2 3, Josh Jones 2 1-26, Marc Logan 5 0-0 10, Joey Re 1 2-6 4,Ervin Fruit 2 4-4 8, Chris Hysell 3 0-0 9, Col-by Gray 1 0-1 2. Totals: 15 8-16 42.Winfield (14-8)Jake Lemmerman 1 0-0 2, Cole Schoolcraft1 0-0 2, Toby Show 3 0-0 6, Chris Turner 40-2 9, Zach Fisher 7 0-0 18, John Bellomy 83-4 24, John Hathaway 1 0-0 2, Aaron Fer-rell 1 1-1 3, Kenneth Pence 4 1-4 9, GarrettGrafton 4 0-0 8. Totals: 34 5-11 83.OH 8 8 18 8 — 42WE 17 24 19 23 — 833-point goals — OH: 4 (Jones, Hysell 3);W: 10 (Turner, Fisher 4, Bellomy 5). Fouledout — none.

G. West 55Midland Trail 48Brandon Gwinn and

Zack Johnson each had14 points in the Cava-lier victory Tuesday.

Josh Martin added10 for Greenbrier West(16-5).

Trail was led byRickie Carter, who had24 points.

Midland Trail willtravel to WebsterCounty on Thursday.

Greenbrier West 55, Midland Trail 48Greenbrier West (16-5)Corey Cox 2 0-2 4, Chris Gabbert 2 0-1 4,Alex Hendrix 2 2-4 6, Pat Hendrix 1 0-0 3,Brandon Gwinn 5 0-0 14, Zack Johnson 70-0 14, Josh Martin 4 2-4 10. Totals: 224-11 55.Midland Trail (8-12)Collin Carte 3 0-0 6, Jake Grimmett 1 2-25, Tyler Skaggs 3 0-0 9, Rickie Carter 8 7-8 24, Austin Burdette 2 0-0 4. Totals: 189-10 48.GW 15 14 14 12 — 55MT 11 10 15 12 — 483-point goals — GW: 5 (Gwinn 4, Hen-drix) ; MT: 3 (Grimmett, Skaggs, Carter).Fouled out — None.

Greater Beckley71

Midland Trail 51Class A No. 6

Greater Beckley Chris-tian (15-3) raced out toa 42-16 halftime leadand rolled past Mid-land Trail Monday.

Elisha Kidd scorchedthe nets for a game-high 32 points to leadthe Crusaders. KeithMullins added 14 andJavonne Staunton-Bai-ley nine for GreaterBeckley. Staunton-Bai-ley also had 10 assists.

Jake Grimmett ledthe Patriots (8-12) with16 points, while RickieCarter had 15 andCollin Carte 10.

Greater Beckley Christian (15-3)Javonne Staunton-Bailey 4 1-4 9, El-isha Kidd 13 3-4 32, Adam Cook 10-0 2, Brent Daniels 2 1-2 5, KeithMullins 4 2-2 14, Anthony Helton 40-0 9. Totals: 28 7-12 71.Midland Trail (8-12)Collin Carte 5 0-0 10, Jake Grim-mett 6 0-1 16, Tyler Skaggs 1 0-03, Rickie Carter 7 1-9 15, AustinBurdette 1 0-0 2, Ryan Wilson 1 0-0 2, Glen Neal 1 0-0 3. Totals: 221-10 51.GBC 18 24 19 10 — 71MT 12 4 21 14 — 513-point goals — GB: 8 (Kidd 3,Mullins 4, Helton); MT: 6 (Grimmett4, Skaggs, Neal). Fouled out — MT(Grimmett).

Greenbrier East 71Fayetteville 50

The Class AAA No. 1Spartans (22-0) fin-ished off a perfect regu-lar season Saturday at

t h eFayetteCountySoldiersa n dSai lorsMemori-al Build-ing withthe wino v e rClass ANo. 8

Fayetteville (15-6).Elizabeth Romeo

paced the Spartanswith 17 points.

Jessica Brown pouredin 30 points for the Pi-rates.

Greenbrier East (22-0)Chloe Honaker 7 0-0 16, ElizabethRomeo 8 0-0 17, Taylor Hill 2 1-26, Chaunté McDowell 5 6-6 16,Lexi Tincher 0 1-2 1, Bianca An-dré 3 0-0 7, Maddee Carroll 0 1-21, Kaitland Mize 1 3-4 5. Totals:26 11-16 71.Fayetteville (15-6)Jessica Brown 13 4-5 30, EricaHogan 2 0-0 4, Katherine Peelish1 0-0 3, Avina Sedlock 3 0-0 6,Maddie Pritt 2 1-2 5, Alyssa Sed-lock 1 0-1 2. Totals: 22 5-8 0.GE 9 32 21 9 — 71F 10 9 13 18 — 50

3-point goals — GE: 7

(Honaker 2, Romeo 3, André, Hill);

F: 1 (Peel ish). Fouled out —

none.

High school roundup

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North AmericanYouth Sports still hasseveral remainingopenings in its annualspring youth basketballtournament at RipleyHigh School on April 5-7.

This tournament willfeature 10 differentbrackets. They include5th-6th grade boys; 5th-6th grade girls; 7thgrade boys; 7th gradegirls; 8th grade boys;8th grade girls; 9th-10th grade boys; 9th-10th grade girls; 11th-12th grade boys; and11th-12th grade girls.All grades are based on

the grade in which astudent is currently en-rolled.

The entry fee for thistournament is $110 andguarantees each team aminimum of two games.

The entry deadline isMarch 15.

For additional infor-mation or an entryform, call the toll-freeNAYS spring tourna-ment hotline at 866-352-5915, tournamentdirector Rick Greene at304-741-1566 or go tothe NAYS website atw w w . n o r t h a m e r i -canyouthsports.org.

Registration is openfor the second Sustain-able Schools West Vir-ginia Summit, scheduledfor April 28-29 at the Ra-mada Inn in Charleston.

Sponsored by the WestVirginia Department ofEnvironmental Protec-tion and ZMM Architectsand Engineers, the sum-mit is designed to bringtogether educationalleaders in primary, sec-ondary and post-second-ary education to discussthe important rolesschools, colleges and uni-versities have in creat-ing sustainable campus-es across West Virginia.

The summit’s goal is to

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The summit is freeand is open to fiscal andfinancial officers; facili-ties, maintenance or op-erations professionals;civic engagement orcommunity volunteer co-ordinators; and, sustain-ability directors from alllevels of education.

A reception is sched-uled from 6 to 9 p.m. on

April 28. The summitwill run from 8:30 a.m.to 4 p.m. on April 29.The summit agenda willbe available soon. Theregistration deadline isApril 1.

To register or for more

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Sustainable Schools Summit set for April 28-29

NAYS has tourney openings