COVINGTON, Ga. – Tuesday’s dwelling matchup between the Newton Rams and the visiting Grovetown Warriors resulted in two extra dwelling victories.
Whereas the Woman Warriors pushed for the street upset with a halftime lead, the Woman Rams charged again within the closing 11 minutes of the sport to attain a 51-42 victory.
The narrative was not the identical within the boy’s contest, as Newton dominated the sport all through the stretch. The Rams had been led by junior Bryce Jackson, who scored a career-high 31 factors within the Rams’ 89-62 win.
Woman Rams pull out victory in closing 11 minutes of the sport
The primary half of Tuesday’s contest was not too sort for the Woman Rams. Going into the sport, the Woman Rams had been 12-3 and had been closely favored over the Woman Warriors.
Nevertheless, Grovetown went bucket-for-bucket with Newton, ending the primary quarter tied at 9-9. The second quarter was a lot of the identical, because the Woman Warriors went into the locker room at halftime with a 20-19 lead.
Regardless of a fast three from sophomore London Smith at first of the third body, it appeared as if the Woman Warriors had been going to construct off of their first half momentum, occurring a 7-0 run within the opening minutes of the quarter.
Nevertheless it was the offensive prowess of Smith, fellow sophomore Mya Perry and senior Camille Recordsdata who rallied the Rams to a 9-0 run to shut the third body with a 38-30 lead.
From there, Newton by no means seemed again, as scores from Smith, Perry, Recordsdata, Jazmine Flournoy and Zoey Jackson put the sport out of attain for Grovetown, giving the Woman Rams their thirteenth victory of the season.
Head coach Jawan Bailey informed The Covington Information that the slower begin was as a result of group trying to finish objectives that they had set for themselves in apply.
We’ve been struggling in sure areas so we determined to set objectives per quarter associated to the ideas we wished to enhance. With these objectives we sacrificed a few of our free flowing play that we usually begin with,” Bailey mentioned. “We’ll ultimately get again to opening video games extra free flowing with hopefully extra self-discipline in our ideas.”
Bailey famous that constructing sturdy group habits will lead the Woman Rams to a profitable postseason, which is true across the nook.
“We all know we now have a proficient group however we may be very undisciplined and lazy,” Bailey mentioned. “Constructing good habits round our core ideas offensively and defensively is our focus heading by means of these previous couple of weeks of the common season.”
Rams dominate in bounce again victory
Going into Tuesday’s contest, Newton head coach Barry Browner informed The Covington Information that his group was “able to play” following a loss to area foe Grayson. That turned out to be precisely the case, because the Rams got here out sizzling within the first quarter.
It was junior Bryce Jackson – who was a game-time determination because of sickness – who made the biggest influence, scoring 15 factors within the first quarter alone and main the Rams to a 23-12 rating to finish the primary body.
Whereas Grovetown rallied again inside 5 factors, it was Appalachian State commit Ted Neal who scored 11 factors within the second body to place the Rams up 42-28 at halftime.
The scoring frenzy continued for Newton, because the Rams went on a 16-0 run within the opening minutes of the third body. Buckets from Jackson, Neal in addition to Jordan Inexperienced and Marcus Smith gave the Rams a 71-43 result in shut out the quarter.
With the sport out of attain for Grovetown, a ribbon was placed on the sport because of a poster-esque dunk from Smith over a Warrior defender.
Ultimately, the Rams secured their highest-scoring victory of the season at 89-62.
Jackson led all scorers with a career-high 31 factors. Smith additionally logged an enormous night time on the stat sheet, scoring 17 factors and 15 assists.
Head coach Barry Browner harassed the group’s sense of urgency after falling quick to No. 1 ranked Grayson just a few nights prior. Browner mentioned that Tuesday’s win affirmed Newton’s standing as one of many prime groups in Georgia.
“We nonetheless really feel like we’re one of many prime groups within the state,” Browner mentioned. Each time we come out right here, we show it… They bounced again tonight and I assumed they did very properly. I used to be actually happy with them.”
