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Intra-county rivals collide
• Lady Lions, Hawks grab victories

By CLAUDE VINSON
Sports Editor

Photo by Ronnie Day

Battling for basketball

Holly High’s Shakerra Dawkins (left) and Byers’ Teresha Woods go the floor Saturday night battling for possession of the basketball.

It doesn’t matter when or where the teams in Marshall County meet, there is going to be maximum interest and intrigue. And it almost always begs for a larger facility.

For the game between H.W. Byers and Holly High Saturday, not only did they need a larger gym they could have used a super parking lot. The crowd at Byers was standing-room-only before the first ball was jumped.

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Streak ends for Lady Cards

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

The Potts Camp Lady Cardinals’ unbeaten streak to start the season ended last week in the “Battle of the Best” at Pontotoc.

The Lady Cards, facing bigger schools, lost by three to the host school and by one to Senatobia. Their record went to 13-2.

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Lady Pats second in tourney; boys 13-5

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

Each Marshall Academy basketball team won two of three in the Magnolia Heights Classic last week, the Lady Patriots’ lone loss coming in the championship game.

The MA girls defeated Lewisburg and North Delta on their way to the title contest, where they lost a two-point heartbreaker to Madison Ridgeland Academy.

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Behind The Scoreboard
By Claude Vinson

Bowl games

The bowl series administrators began dishing out post-season crowns on December 19 (2009) in the New Mexico Bowl. And it really took off after that with some oddities and interesting sidelights.

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Lady Indians go 2-2 in Dragon Fire

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

The Byhalia Lady Indians went 2-2 in the annual Dragon Fire Invitational Tournament at Collierville, Tenn., last week.

All four games were tight, the largest margin being a nine-point win over Bartlett, Tenn.

Head coach Markeith Washington’s squad opened the tourney with a 53-50 loss to the host school on Sunday evening, Dec. 27.

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Hawks scorch Devils

The Holly Springs Hawks closed out the old year with success.

Coach Naylond Hayes’ basketball squad blasted Booneville 60-44 on December 29 in the Blue Devils’ own tournament. The high-flying Hawks improved to 13-1.

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H.W. Byers girls drop two in Ohio

By BARRY BURLESON
Editor

Mission accomplished.

Those were the words of coach Jason Thompson after he carried his H.W. Byers Lady Lions on a very long road trip between Christmas and New Year’s.

The Byers girls lost to a couple of big Ohio schools last week in the prestigious Braggin’ Rights Classic at Columbus, Ohio.

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