Pickens, County Ga After picking up a big win last Thursday against the Southeast Whitfield Raiders, the Pickens Dragons welcomed another region foe to the Dragons Den in the form of the Cedartown Bulldogs. In their previous meeting on January 8th, the Dragons took home a 54-41 win. Coming into the game, the Bulldogs held the 2nd spot in the 7-AAAA standings at 8-2, while Pickens came in as the 3rd place team at 6-4. Aided by a breakout game from Sophomore Jaden Stewart, the Dragons came away with a 49-40 win.
The two sides traded buckets to begin the ball game as Cedartown took an early 4-2 lead. Noah Sutton & Tucker Lowe hit back to back three pointers for the Dragons, to put them up 8-4. After a bucket by the Bulldogs, Pickens went on an 8-0 run to stretch the lead out to 16-6. 6 of those points came from two three pointers from Stewart. After a quick 4-0 run by Cedartown, the Dragons countered with a 5-0 run to end the quarter as Ean Goodwin got a tip in bucket and Stewart
Tuscaloosa Academy Continues To Roll in 46-30 Victory
Momentum continues to build for the Tuscaloosa Academy Knights as it kept its undefeated season alive with a 46-30 victory over the Evangel Christian Lions.
The Knights came out to a hot start with sophomore Walter Mckee draining four 3 s in a row establishing a potent outside threat that forced the Lions into a zone look. The Lions countered with a two-man game between senior Marcus Townsend Jr. (13 points) and junior Kennedy Holland (eight points) who operated in various pick-and-rolls and isolation sets.
However once the Knights set up its 2-3 zone it compromised the spacing and movement of the Lion’s offense, resulting in a quarter-long draught as the lead stood at 21-7 in the 1st quarter. As the 2