Basketball

BY Harold Trull

Sports Correspondent

GORDO - The Gordo Lady wave took on Holt Thursday night, in a battle of winless teams, unless you count Aliceville's recent forfeit against Gordo as a win. It would be Holt that came out on top with their first win of the season, a 47-29 win.
The Lady Wave got on the board first on an Emily Bryant layup for a 2-0 lead. Holt would then tie the game at 2-2 on a Williams layup.
Neither team scored for almost three minutes until Williams broke a 2-2 tie with a layup with 3:39. Gordo's Taylor Clegg would answer shortly after with a steal and layup to tie the game at 4-4.

The Pickens County Tornadoes, ranked sixth in Class 1A, captured the regular season Area 9 championship on January 14, by defeating the Holy Spirit Saints 67-63.
It was Senior night at Pickens County and all varsity basketball seniors were honored between the boys and girls games.
The Seniors honored were Kelcei Phillips, Jacoris Barnes, Ladesmon Brown, K.J. Byrd, Jaylon Jones, Xavier King and Xerrance Washington.

The Pickens County Lady Tornadoes had a tough week of play, dropping to 1-9 on the season. On Saturday, January 9, the Lady Tornadoes played the Sipsey Valley Lady Bears and lost a heartbreaker 49-47 in overtime. Sipsey Valley led 9-6 after one period and then held a one-point lead at halftime, 19-18. Pickens County took the lead after three quarters, 28-25, but the Lady Bears came back in the fourth to tie the game at 45-45 at the end of regulation. The Lady Tornadoes could score only two points in overtime and Sipsey Valley came away with a 49-47 victory.

BY BARRY AMBROSE
Sports Correspondent

The #1-ranked team in Class 1A, the Pickens County Tornadoes upped their record to 5-1 (4-0 in the Area) with an easy 77-27 win over the Hubbertville Lions.
Pickens County went on a 7-0 run to start the game, and had a 17-11 lead at the end of the first quarter.
To begin the second quarter, Pickens County went on a run again, this time 12-0, to open up a 29-11 lead.

BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
brian@pcherald.com

BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
brian@pcherald.com

Heritage Christian started fast and finished fast, as the Eagles cruised to a 57-34 region win Monday night.
The Eagles jumped out to a quick 9-0 lead, as Tobias Stoutermire nailed two corner threes, followed by a three by Ty Stoutermire.
Pickens Academy got on the board with a jumper by Rafe Brown, cutting the lead to 9-2. A layup by Aidan Johnson would make the score 9-4 with 2:52 left in the first quarter, as Heritage went on a scoring drought.

By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor

The Lady Pirates fought back from a four-point deficit with just over a minute left to take a one-point lead, however, Lowndes Academy would score with 25 seconds left in the game to win 31-30.

“It’s a tough loss and it needs to hurt,” Pickens Academy head coach Wade Goodman said. “When they hurt like that and we’ve got four juniors and a couple sophomores coming back, that should make them get in that gym and get better. We didn’t do that this year. It needs to hurt so bad that it gets them in the gym.”

By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor

Pickens County was able to withstand a scoring barrage by Meek due Payton Key and Caleb Aaron last Tuesday night to win 85-60 in the subregional playoff and advance to the northwest regional semifinals in Hanceville. Key finished the game with 35 points, while Aaron added 18, as the two career 1,000-point accounted for 53 of Meek’s 60 points. The Tornadoes would use a stingy full-court press, however, to pull away and win comfortably.