What the Nash County Holiday Basketball Tournament needed was a close game. It took game five to produce one. Tonight's consolation girls game was won by Nash Central beating Southern Nash 64-48. The sixteen point difference has been the closes game so far in the tournament.
Today's bracket only had two games scheduled and the night cap was the boys semi-finals game featuring Nash Central who had a 5-2 record entering tonight an Northern Nash 4-1 at this point only having played five games due to football teams making it all the way to Thanksgiving Friday.
Jalen Hendricks hit two early three point buckets for the Bulldogs and gave them an 8-1 lead which would prove to be the biggest by either side all night. By the end of the first quarter DeShawn Freeman and Northern Nash had taken the lead 15-14.
Both teams found that putting the ball in the bucket was not easy in the second quarter as Northern outscored The Bulldogs 6-4 to lead at the half 21-18. The score was 34-32 after three and the biggest lead in the fourth quarter was 41-37 Northern.
DeShawn Freeman score 26 for the Knights playing at times as if he was the only player on the court. Northern got just enough scoring from others to beat Nash Central 45-41. Nash Central missed three of five three throws with the score 41-38. They had a chance to tie with less than five seconds left but were called for traveling while driving to the basket. Northern advances to the finals to take on Rocky Mount Wednesday night edging the Bulldogs.
Beside Freeman's 26 point Mike Bracket and Kendrick Silver were next in the scoring with six. Jalen Hendricks was the only Bulldog to hit double figures with 12.
Wednesday night's lineup will start with the boys consolation game of Nash Central and Southern Nash. The girls championship will bring Northern Nash and Rocky Mount together and the boys final will also be NN-RM. I suspect the gym will over flow Wednesday night.
You may have had to make a double take if you walked by the scoring table during the Nash Central girls game against Southern Nash. Montre the 11 year old son of Nash Central coach Terry Cash is the official score keeper for the Lady Bulldogs. Even though he's 11 he looks 7 so seeing him at the scoring table keeping the score book right is indeed a most unusual sight.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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