Feb 2, 2008
By Joseph Chilton
Special to the Times-News
Pisgah guard Austin Moore drained a 3-pointer one minute into Friday night’s game between Pisgah and West Henderson to give his team a 3-0 lead. The visiting Black Bears would never trail for the remainder of the evening, as they rolled past West 74-53.
Pisgah (15-3, 5-1 WAC) came out firing, connecting on their first three long range attempts and jumping out to a 13-5 lead with 4:45 remaining in the first quarter. The Falcons (9-11, 3-3 WAC) slowly chipped away at the lead until a 3-pointer by Kevin Thomas tied the game 21-21 early in the second quarter.
That was as close to leading as the Falcons would get, however, as Pisgah responded with an 11-0 run over the next four minutes to push its lead to 32-21.
West would pull close again early in the third quarter, when a Zach Corliss 3-pointer narrowed the gap to 37-33. Pisgah fired back quickly again, however, this time with 9-0 run to push its lead back into double digits at 46-33.
In the fourth quarter, West spread its defense out trying to pressure the Black Bears, and Pisgah responded by splitting the defense for several point-blank-range scores.
“We went out of our norm and went into a scrambling defense late. We don’t do that usually, but when you’re down you have to take some chances. Unfortunately, that gave them some easy layups late in the game,” said West coach Rob Bliss, whose team gave up 38 points in the paint.
Corliss poured in 25 points, including four of West’s five 3s, but his scoring barrage was overshadowed by Pisgah’s balanced attack, which saw four players reach double figures.
Austin Moore and Zack Hollifield led Pisgah with 20 points apiece.
“Zach played hard, but we struggled to find other people to score with him,” said Bliss. “Our effort was there, but our execution was poor. We missed a lot of open looks.”
In the girls game, West led throughout until a furious fourth quarter comeback llowed Pisgah to come away from Mills River with a 57-50 victory.
The Lady Falcons led throughout the first three quarters of the game and carried a 34-27 lead into the fourth.
Pisgah’s Katie Hargrove scored 13 of her game-high 16 points in the final period, as Pisgah outscored West Henderson 30-16 in the fourth for the come-from-behind win.
Summer Kremer scored 13 points and Erica Cantrell added 10 in the losing effort for the Lady Falcons. Brittney Clark joined Hargrove in double figures for Pisgah with 14 points.
Pisgah moves to 10-8 overall and 5-1 in the WAC with the win, while West falls to 4-14 and 2-4.
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