Knights Shine, Reach Beach Final
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Topple Tallwood:
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Run's win over top-seeded Landstown in the opening
game of the Beach District semifinals at Ocean Lakes High School, the #2
class=SpellE>Kellam Knights met the #3 Tallwood
Lions in Thursday night's second game to determine who would play the Stallions
for the district tournament title.
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by Old Dominion commit Ramone
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Knights notched a 51-42 victory using tenacious defense, Snowden's superior
playmaking ability and toughness down the stretch.
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Summary:
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Kellam 10 11 12 18 - 51
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of the Game:
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senior Ramone
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19 points, pulling down 13 rebounds, dishing out 8 assists and notching 4
blocks. More impressively, the future
Old Dominion Monarch, who had only three points at the half (with six rebounds
and six assists) took over the contest in the third quarter scoring ten of his
team's twelve before adding another six in the final period.
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class=SpellE>Tallwood plays good defense and has done that all year,"
Snowden said. "They put different people
on me and I try to look for my teammates as much as possible and attack myself
when I get the chance."
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Norman Hassell
liked what he saw from Snowden, particularly in crunch time with the game
on the line.
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really finds his teammates well. We've
been talking to him about trying to take games over, but it's his free-throws
that he's really been trying to focus and concentrate on," Hassell
noted. "Tonight, he closed it out with
some big free-throws."
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to Victory:
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Active Zone Defense:
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contest started well for the Knights whose defense had Tallwood
twisted a bit early forcing the Lions to make five or six passes before taking
a shot that was usually contested as Kellam opened up
a 7-3 lead. Though the Lions cut the
lead to one with a three-pointer, Kellam stretched
the lead back out to four by the end of the first quarter.
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the offensive side of the ball, Snowden wasn't scoring much for the Knights but
he was having a big impact on their productivity as his one bucket and four
assists accounted for 10 of their first 14 points.
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answered the Kellam zone pressure with a little
defensive heat of their own getting back-to-back turnovers and buckets with the
quick hands and feet of Tallwood guard
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Knights' ball handlers. Combined with their seven offensive rebounds and six
forced turnovers at this point, the Lions knotted the game at 14 late in the
first half.
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it or not, we practice rebounding out of it and there's just times where we
fail to identify a target. We know we're
taller and longer, we try to use our size advantage, but that's a scrappy
group. They don't care if you're tall or
long, they're going to fight you for rebounds," commented Hassell
on the zone and Tallwood's
crashing of the glass."
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both teams playing solid defense, the Lions carried a 23-21 lead into the
halftime locker rooms.
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Halftime Stats:
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Will Howard 8pts
Darius Howard 6 pts, 5 reb,
3 ast
Tommie Flournoy 3 pts, 1-10
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Kellam:
William Shook 8 pts off bench
Tyler Vinsand 6 pts two 3's
Ramone Snowden 3 pts, 1-7
shooting, 6 reb, 6 ast
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break, it was clear that Kellam was intent on
pounding the ball into the teeth of the Lions defense with Snowden working hard
in the paint. Trailing 30-28 in the
third, the Knights got back-to-back scores as Snowden hit a bucket in the paint
then got fouled on the next trip and converted the ensuing free throws to put
class=SpellE>Kellam up 32-30 with just over a minute to play in the
half.
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teams traded a two for a three as the quarter ended with Kellam
leading 33-32 as Snowden scored 10 of the Knights' 12 points in the period.
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knew we had a size advantage with him (Snowden), so we tried to put him in the post
and let him go to work, understanding with everybody around him that going to work
means I'm going to look for you if I get collapsed on, and he's always a
pass-first kind of guy."
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#3 - - Composure Down
the Stretch: The game changed
physically in the fourth quarter as the intensity picked up with the outcome on
the line. Kellam
landed the first big punches as they used an 8-0 run to run out to a 41-32 lead
with just under six minutes to play.
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Tallwood answered with seven straight points to cut
the deficit to two with 2:40 to play in the contest.
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the Lions answered back with a trey from Will
Howard from the corner making it a 43-42 game with 1:47 to go.
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out of timeout, Kellam responded to the
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in an open layup for Kobe Copeland
to go up three then the Knights defense forced a missed shot and got a pair of
free throws from Snowden to lead by five effectively salting the game away.
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mso-highlight:yellow'>Wrap Up: A
back-and-forth battle of a game that saw both teams make runs but essentially
play neck-and-neck for most of the contest resulted in an exciting battle won
by the team with the best athlete on the floor as Snowden did everything that
his team needed him to do in order to win and advance.
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in the game, he concentrated on rebounding and involving his teammates in the
offensive flow, but in the second half, he shouldered the team's offensive load
by banging inside then salting the contest away by making key throws from the
charity stripe.
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into the Beach District championship game, the Knights have to feel pretty good
about how they are playing as they battled hard all evening and took everything
that Tallwood could throw at them.
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regular season games with Green Run so the title game has a shot at being
another tremendous test for both teams before heading into the regional
tournament.
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a very big game," Snowden said. "We want
to stay in Virginia Beach for the first round of [regionals], so we need to get
that W."
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will hit the road next as they will meet #1 Great Bridge in the opening round
of the regional bracket where they will be an underdog but not one that will be
physically overmatched. If they continue
to play hard and get a few more shot to fall, the Lions will pose a very
serious threat to Great Bridge's title hopes.
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Key Stats:
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19Pts. 6-14FG, 7-12FT, 13Reb.
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8Ast. 4Blk.
William Shook - - 10Pts. (SH) 5-7FG, 4Reb. 2Ast.
Tyler Vinsand - - 8Pts. 2-4FG, 4Reb. 4Ast. 2Stl
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Kobe Copeland - - 8Pts. 4-4FG, 3Reb.
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Tallwood 42:
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5Reb. 3Ast. 3Stl.
Will Howard - - 11Pts. 3-5 3's, 6Reb. 3Blk.
Tyler Peterson - - 7Pts. 2-5FG, 3-5FT, 4Reb. 3Stl.
Tommie Flournoy - - 5Pts. 1-19FG, 2Ast.
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Records:
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