THE CITIZEN-TIMES, Scottsville, Ky., Thursday, February 2, 2012—PAGE 17

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Patriot junior Austin York (5) drives past a Clinton County bulldog and into the paint last Thursday. York and his teammates played solid basketball for over three periods before falling to the Bulldogs.

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AC-S’s Connor Ross (10) grows strong toward the hoop for a basket against Clinton County. Ross is one of AC-S’s lead-ing rebounders and will be called upon to step up his game as AC-S goes on the road to Monroe County this Friday, Todd County Central Satur-day and Greenwood next Tuesday.

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Senior Thaxton Spears (23) takes the ball toward the rim in action Thurs-day against the Clinton County Bulldogs. Spears scored 12 points in AC-S’s setback to the Bulldogs.

By Don MeadorC-T Sports Editor

The Allen County-Scotts-ville Patriots split a pair of games with 16th District opponents in the past week. Tuesday, Jan. 24 the Patri-ots had little trouble in de-feating the Metcalfe County Hornets 60-32. Thursday, Clinton County—a region-al favorite this season—downed AC-S 68-57 last

Thursday night at Patriot Gym.

Ten Patriots contributed offensively in the AC-S win over Metcalfe County. Se-nior Josh Jones led the way with 10 points—seven points below his season average. Junior Austin York added nine points with junior Con-nor Ross scoring eight. Se-nior Thaxton Spears, junior Austin Napier and junior

Matthew Holder pumped in seven each.

The Patriots all but settled the game with a 23-4 fi rst period. Led by a balanced of-fensive attack and a strong defense, AC-S raced to the early double-digit lead. The Hornets regrouped and matched AC-S point-for-point in the second half. At halftime, AC-S led 34-15.

Not willing to let Metcalfe County creep back in to the game, AC-S outscored the visitors 16-8 in the third period. The Patriots record-ed their biggest lead of the game early in the fourth—56-25—before cruising to the 60-32 win.

The Patriots’ dominance centered on several fac-tors—starting with over 50 percent shooting from the fl oor for much of the night. Taking advantage of a weak defensive effort by the Hor-nets, the Patriots were 16-31 from the fl oor in the fi rst half. AC-S sank a three and one of two free throws. The Patriots shooting tapered off in the second 16 minutes (12-30 for 40 percent) leav-ing AC-S 28-61 for the game for a 45.9 percent clip. At the line, the Patriots were three of six for the game.

On the glass, AC-S grabbed 39 rebounds—led by the seven boards grabbed by Ross and Spears. The Patriots grabbed 16 offen-sive rebounds leading to 13 points. Metcalfe County fi n-

ished with 35 rebounds. Another key stat was

turnovers. Metcalfe County committed 25 turnovers in the game—miscues that led to 28 Patriot points. AC-S turned the ball over 17 times but the Hornets only score fi ve points as a result.

The Patriots also domi-nated with their play in the paint and their ability to penetrate past Metcal-fe’s sluggish defense. Stats show that AC-S scored 48 of their 60 points from the paint area. In addition, the Patriots got 24 points off their bench.

Thursday, AC-S played well but a key stretch at the start of the fourth period proved costly for the hosts.

“We played about 28 re-ally good minutes,” Patriot Coach James Willett said. “We had that lapse at the end of the third and begin-ning of the fourth, and it kind of got us on our heels.”

Clinton CountyIn reality, the lapse was

the second of the night. Clin-ton County opened the game with a 7-0 run before a de-termined group of Patriots closed the quarter on a 12-6 run to pull to within a point, 13-12. The Patriots built on their success to take an 18-13 lead by the 4:47 mark of the second.

The Bulldogs are a team that can score baskets in bunches as evident in the fi nal four minutes of the second. Four three-point baskets against a shagging Patriot defense capped off by a long shot by Clinton County’s Keifer Dalton at the halftime buzzer gave Clinton County a 31-27 lead.

AC-S was able to stay within two or three for much of the third frame. However, things went down hill late in the period as the Bulldogs put together a back-breaking run. A score at the 46 second mark in the third period sent the Bulldogs on a 14-0 run. At the 5:49 point of the fi nal period, the Bulldogs led 53-37. AC-S outscored Clinton County 20-15 the rest of the way—too little and too late as the Bulldogs secured the

game with free throws down the stretch. It was Clinton County’s second win over the Patriots this year—their fi rst being a 55-40 win in the South Central Bank/Halton Classic in December.

“It was kind of a chess match,” Willett said. “They made adjustments to what we did. We countered. They countered. It was a fun game to coach, but they just made big plays at big times. Good teams are going to take ad-vantage of that.”

AC-S was led by Mat-thew Holder. The 6’1” ju-nior recorded a career high 18 points in the loss. Spears added 12 points. Senior for-ward Sawyer Stalcup’s 19 led the Bulldogs (17-3).

AC-S (9-14) will close out the regular season district schedule Friday night at Monroe County (5-13). The Patriots are 2-3 in district play while Monroe County is 0-5. Saturday, the Patri-ots will face the Todd Coun-ty Central Rebels (6-17) in a game added this week to the schedule. Next Tuesday, AC-S is at Greenwood (15-7).

triots managed double fi g-ures.

“Clinton shot somewhere around 50-55 percent from fi eld and 75 percent from line while we shot 22 percent from fi eld,” Coach Bonds pointed out. “We missed somewhere in the neighbor-hood of 15 to 20 shots in the paint and went 11-22 in free throws. But, we won and that’s important for us at this point.”

Edmonson CountyThe Lady Patriots re-

turned to the hardwood Friday night against former 15th District rival Edmon-son County. The result was a solid effort that resulted in a 10-point win.

“We shot the ball really well,” Coach Bonds said. “Our offense worked really well.”

Looking as good offensive-ly as they had all season, the Lady Patriots wasted little time in grabbing the lead. Baskets by Boards, Sandy Young and Robinson staked AC-S to an early 6-2 lead. Edmonson tied the game at seven before the Lady Patri-ots were able to build a 13-8 lead after the fi rst.

A 16-6 Lady Patriot sec-ond period put the game in the Lady Patriots hands. Behind strong inside play by Sandy Young, AC-S stretched their lead well into double digits. Young’s putback of a Jordon Brooks miss gave AC-S a 23-10 lead midway through the sec-ond. Young added another hoop and her third offen-sive board and put back at

the 1:21 mark of the second gave AC-S their biggest lead of the game, 29-12.

Edmonson County trailed 29-14 at the half and re-mained in a double-digit defi cit throughout the third. The Lady Patriot shoot-ing dipped somewhat in the third, yet, AC-S led by 12, 40-28, with a quarter to play.

The AC-S defense start-ed to suffer mental break downs in the fi nal frame—thus allowing the Lady Wildcats to trim the defi cit to under 10. A basket by Lady Cat MacKenzie Rich narrowed the game to seven at the 3;36 point. Less than two minutes later, Hannah Glenn’s inside hoop pulled the Lady Cats to within four.

AC-S answered as Lau-ren Yokley took a Boards pass and scored at the 2:05 mark. Following an Edmon-son County miss. Young fed Robinson for a basket in the paint to stretch the lead to eight. With just under a minute left, AC-S’s Rich sank two free throws to stretch the lead to 10. The team traded baskets with the fi nal margin being 10.

The Lady Patriots were 21-45 from the fl oor for the game and 12-20 at the foul line. Edmonson was 17-41 from the fl oor and seven of 11 at the foul stripe.

Three Lady Patriots were in double fi gures. Rich led the way with 14 points while Robinson added 14. Young fi nished with 13. Rich and Young shared rebounding honors with eight.

AC-S (13-9) travels to Monroe County Friday night to face the Lady Falcons (19-

By Don MeadorC-T Sports Editor

The Allen County-Scotts-ville Patriots will play the Todd County-Central Reb-els Saturday night in junior varsity/varsity action. The game was not on the origi-nal AC-S schedule but added this week. The junior varsi-ty tips at 6 p.m. followed by varsity action around 7:15 p.m. at Todd County Central High School in Elkton.

The new contest gives the Patriots’ back-to-back road games on consecutive nights for the second time in three weekends. The game will also be a part of a three-game road swing, starting with a Friday night district match-up at Monroe County (5-13) and concluding next Tuesday with a game at Greenwood (15-7).

The Rebels (6-17) will also play a district game Friday night on the road at Franklin-Simpson (10-10). The Patriots (9-14) host the Wildcats Friday, Feb. 10 for homecoming at Allen Coun-ty-Scottsville.

AC-S Adds ToddCentral Game

3). The schedule doesn’t get any easier as the Lady Pa-triots travel to Greenwood (19-5) next Tuesday.