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go in the first half. Shew- maker then was fouled on another 3 from the right wing and made the free throw to make it 26-24 with 3:01 to go in the half. “I thought we got in there and were really attacking them at the basket. And they missed some easy shots, too,” Irvine said. “They missed some at point blank, and that helps, obvi- ously. It helps get our run- ning game going. And I thought in transition we gave them a lot of trouble there.” A putback and a steal and three-point play from Robby Irgang pushed the lead back to 31-24, but Beckerson’s three-point play with 28 seconds left in the half made it 31-27 at halftime. A bucket from Zack Irvine and two free throws from Beckerson cut West Jessamine’s lead to 35-33 with 3:05 left in the third, but the Colts (18-12) went on 16-0 over the rest of the third quarter and into the fourth for a 51-33 lead. “I thought they got more aggressive on offense and defense and kind of took us out of what we were want- ing to do,” he said. “We’ve been going to the line 20, 25 times a game and we only had two in the first half and 11 for the game. That does- n’t fit into our strength. We like to attack the goal and get to the line, and we didn’t do much of either one. “Their inside game is real skilled. And they really shut us down.” Burgin never got closer than 16 points the rest of the way, finishing 17 for 37 from the floor and 9 for 11 at the free-throw line. “Our defense in the third quarter did a good job of not giving them buckets. The first few minutes of the third quarter, we were set- tling for 3s and not hitting them,” West Jessamine coach Damon Kelley said. “We’re normally a good shooting team and I want my kids to have the confi- dence to shoot when they’re open because they are good shooters. The shots weren’t falling, so we finally started attacking the rim a little bit.” Chase Fain led West Jes- samine with 14 points, and Irgang, DeShawn Eubanks and Daulton Peters each scored 11. West finished 24 for 57 from the field and made 9 of 11 free throws. Burgin was without Myles Hill, who injured his ankle in pregame warmups and did not play. Irvine said that was a loss. “Myles is our vocal leader, and puts a lot of physical play on it. He’s not a big points and rebounds guy, but he would lay a body on somebody, and that’s one less we had and we can’t hardly stand to do that. And that made an im- pact on us I thought,” he said. But Irvine said Tuesday’s loss would not take away from what was a historical season for Burgin, which had its highest win total since 1941. ”It was a whole body of work,” he said. “We didn’t expect to win 20 games. We don’t expect to lose any of them, but we don’t expect to win 20, and that’s some- thing that hasn’t been done in years and years. It doesn’t really stand out until you read it in the pa- pers, that it’s been 71 years since it’s been done.” 46th District Tournament At Mercer County Semifinal Burgin 9 27 33 46 West Jessamine 21 31 46 62 BURGIN (22-9) — Austin Shewmaker 7, Nick Beckerson 1, Jared Robbins 7, Travis McEachern 12, Alex Beckerson 15, Zack irvine 4. WEST JESSAMINE (18-12) — Jeff Ziemann 8, Chase Fain 14, Will Henderson 3, Robby Ir- gang 11, DeShawn Eubanks 11, Heath Jack- son 4, Daulton Peters 11. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 B3 SPORTS THE ADVOCATE-MESSENGER WWW.AMNEWS.COM could make them work on offense and that would be to our advantage.” East Jessamine plays West Jessamine in Friday’s final. e Colts beat Burgin 62-46 in the other semifinal. Russell Sims led Mercer with 14 points and eight re- bounds, Jordan Duncan had five points and seven boards, and Mercer was out- rebounded 37-27. Ronnie Carson had 16 points, Cody Collins added 13 points and nine rebounds and Michael Rexroat and Tashan Hairston each scored 10 for East Jes- samine. A putback from Sims made it 25-11, but the Jaguars closed on a 10-5 run and led 35-17 at the half. e Jaguars were 13 for 27 in the first half and finished 26 for 59 from the field and made 19 of 22 free throws. ey also had just four turnovers in the first half, and 12 for the game. “at’s just execution and being focused,” O’Bryan said. “I liked our focus, I liked our intensity, there were a couple of moments where a couple of guys may have let up, but for the most part I thought they all brought it the whole game. I thought that was a great team effort.” Collins scored seven straight points as East Jes- samine scored 15 of the first 17 points of the third quarter for a 47-15 lead. Timmy Bradshaw’s 3-point then made it 50-21 going to the fourth quarter. Over the second and third quarters, Mercer was just 6 for 24, and it made 19 of 43 shots for the game. e Ti- tans were 2 for 10 from 3- point range, 3 for 8 from the free throw line and commit- ted 18 turnovers. Britt said not being able to run hurt his team. “ey didn’t pressure us as much, and that elimi- nated the transition bas- kets,” Britt said. “ey’re one of the most athletic teams in our region, and senior-dom- inated and very experi- enced.” O’Bryan said the key was not letting Mercer get out and run. “eir transition has killed us the first two games, and we had to try and limit that,” he said. “I think in the first half they only got one, and a couple in the second half, and that was key, mak- ing sure we got back.” e Titans return the bulk of their team next season, losing only seniors Austin Horn, Matthew Hamilton and Nathan McGinnis, and Britt said this has been a great season of learning. “What we gained from it is we can’t step on the floor, just like any other team, and expect to win,” he said. “Get- ting better happens in the offseason, getting better happens over the summer. And there’s a lot of things we can get better at.” 46th District Tournament At Mercer County Semifinal East Jessamine 15 35 52 75 Mercer County 9 17 21 43 EAST JESSAMINE (26-4) — Cameron Thomas 7, C.J. Boyd 6, Tashan Hairston 6, Michael Rexroat 10, Taylor Harper 10, Mike Jones 2, Ronnie Carson 16, Cody Collins 13, Timmy Bradshaw 5. MERCER (9-22) — Chris Goodman 5, John In- gram 5, Drew Davis 4, Russell Sims 14, Austin Sparrow 4, Louis Price 4, Jordan Duncan 5, Tommy Craig 2. GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE Celebrating 70 Years of Family Owned Business! BEAUTY SCHOOL 100 Fox Harbor (Behind Tractor Supply) Danville • 859-236-6268 Wed-Fri 8:30-5:00 Sat 8:00-4:30 Full set of Acrylic Nails for $15 00* *Exp. 02/29/12 Must have coupon to redeem Does your BODY need WORK? Does your BODY need WORK? 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The Admirals committed only three turnovers and forced KSD (11-20) into 29. The 73-point margin broke the KSD record for margin of defeat, which was 69 points in a 108-39 loss to McKinney in 1972. It was also the fewest points scored by the Colonels since an 18-7 loss to Illinois School for the Deaf in 1931. Bruce Gemmer, Adam Turner, Dillon Maynard and Valdin Kudic scored two points each for KSD, which was 3 for 24 from the field and didn’t have a field goal in the second half. Turner also had five rebounds. The Colonels broke a school record for games played set in 1996-97. 45th District Girls Boyle County 81, Ken- tucky School for the Deaf 6 — At Stanford, sisters Emmie and Hannah Harris combined for 30 points to lead Boyle (15-15) over KSD (1-22) in a first-round game. Eleven different players scored for the fourth- seeded Rebels, who ad- vance to play top-seeded Lincoln County in a semi- final tonight at Lincoln. Charlotte Judge hit two 3-pointers in the first half for KSD, but the Colonels did not score again. They were 2 for 22 from the field with 23 turnovers. Kaley Vickers led KSD with five rebounds. 47th District Boys Casey County 55, Som- erset 53 — At Mount Ver- non, Clay Cannon and Baylen Hill scored 14 points each as Casey (4- 26) ended an eight-game losing streak with a semifi- nal win over Somerset (11- 13). Luke Carman added 12 points for the Rebels, who had lost by 35 and eight points to the Briar Jumpers during the regular season. They will play Pulaski County in Friday’s final. Tuesday’s Area High School Linescores BOYS 45th District Tournament At Lincoln County First Round Kentucky School f/t Deaf 2 6 7 8 Danville 24 42 63 81 KSD (11-20) — Bruce Gemmer 2, Adam Turner 2, Dillon Maynard 2, Valdin Kudic 2. DANVILLE (13-14) — Tryston Ford 8, Christian Gateskill-Fuqua 2, Leroy Hawkins 3, Rob Caudill 9, Katon Emerson 7, Jay Hunn 15, Jawan Grey 17, Damir Karapandzic 8, Kyle Lange 8, Alex Burnside 4. 47th District Tournament Semifinal At Rockcastle County Casey County 12 27 38 55 Somerset 8 26 37 53 CASEY (4-26) — Cannon 14, Bianconi 1, Carman 12, Scott 3, Leigh 6, Smith 3, Hill 14. SOMERSET (11-13) — Cheuvrant 13, Lange 8, Gordon 9, McWilliams 5, Dishman 18. GIRLS 45th District Tournament At Lincoln County First Round Kentucky School f/t Deaf 3 6 6 6 Boyle County 27 50 69 81 KSD (1-22) — Charlotte Judge 6. BOYLE (15-15) — Emmie Harris 17, Han- nah Harris 13, Kalin Bottoms 9, Cami Holton 8, Mary Fyfe 7, Marlee Smith 6, Natalie Set- tle 6, Lauren Richards 4, Shelby Bishop 4, Dee Foster 5, Ashley White 2. Danville, Boyle win big DISTRICT TOURNAMENTS BURGIN, from B1 Hal Morris/[email protected] Mercer County’s Russell Sims drives on East Jessamine’s Cameron Thomas in Tuesday’s loss. Sims led the Titans with 14 points. MERCER, from B1 “Once they hit two 3s back to back and we got down by double digits, we had to come away from our game plan a little bit. And that led to forcing some things, getting some turnovers.” Mercer County coach Brian Britt Hal Morris/[email protected] Burgin’s Zack Irvine scores and is fouled by West Jessamine’s Daulton Peters (34) in the second half Tuesday. The Bulldogs ended their most successful season in 71 years with a loss to the Colts.
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go in the first half. Shew-maker then was fouled onanother 3 from the rightwing and made the freethrow to make it 26-24 with3:01 to go in the half.
“I thought we got in thereand were really attackingthem at the basket. Andthey missed some easyshots, too,” Irvine said.“They missed some at pointblank, and that helps, obvi-ously. It helps get our run-ning game going. And Ithought in transition wegave them a lot of troublethere.”
A putback and a stealand three-point play fromRobby Irgang pushed thelead back to 31-24, butBeckerson’s three-pointplay with 28 seconds left inthe half made it 31-27 athalftime.
A bucket from ZackIrvine and two free throwsfrom Beckerson cut WestJessamine’s lead to 35-33with 3:05 left in the third,but the Colts (18-12) wenton 16-0 over the rest of thethird quarter and into thefourth for a 51-33 lead.
“I thought they got moreaggressive on offense anddefense and kind of took usout of what we were want-ing to do,” he said. “We’vebeen going to the line 20, 25times a game and we only
had two in the first half and11 for the game. That does-n’t fit into our strength. Welike to attack the goal andget to the line, and wedidn’t do much of eitherone.
“Their inside game is realskilled. And they really shutus down.”
Burgin never got closerthan 16 points the rest ofthe way, finishing 17 for 37from the floor and 9 for 11at the free-throw line.
“Our defense in the thirdquarter did a good job ofnot giving them buckets.The first few minutes of thethird quarter, we were set-tling for 3s and not hittingthem,” West Jessaminecoach Damon Kelley said.“We’re normally a goodshooting team and I wantmy kids to have the confi-dence to shoot whenthey’re open because theyare good shooters. Theshots weren’t falling, so wefinally started attacking therim a little bit.”
Chase Fain led West Jes-samine with 14 points, andIrgang, DeShawn Eubanksand Daulton Peters eachscored 11. West finished 24for 57 from the field andmade 9 of 11 free throws.
Burgin was withoutMyles Hill, who injured hisankle in pregame warmupsand did not play. Irvine saidthat was a loss.
“Myles is our vocalleader, and puts a lot ofphysical play on it. He’s nota big points and reboundsguy, but he would lay abody on somebody, andthat’s one less we had andwe can’t hardly stand to dothat. And that made an im-pact on us I thought,” hesaid.
But Irvine said Tuesday’sloss would not take awayfrom what was a historicalseason for Burgin, whichhad its highest win totalsince 1941.
”It was a whole body ofwork,” he said. “We didn’texpect to win 20 games. Wedon’t expect to lose any ofthem, but we don’t expectto win 20, and that’s some-thing that hasn’t been donein years and years. Itdoesn’t really stand outuntil you read it in the pa-pers, that it’s been 71 yearssince it’s been done.”
46th District TournamentAt Mercer CountySemifinalBurgin 9 27 33 46West Jessamine 21 31 46 62BURGIN (22-9) — Austin Shewmaker 7, NickBeckerson 1, Jared Robbins 7, TravisMcEachern 12, Alex Beckerson 15, Zackirvine 4.WEST JESSAMINE (18-12) — Jeff Ziemann8, Chase Fain 14, Will Henderson 3, Robby Ir-gang 11, DeShawn Eubanks 11, Heath Jack-son 4, Daulton Peters 11.
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could make them work onoffense and that would be toour advantage.”
East Jessamine plays WestJessamine in Friday’s final.e Colts beat Burgin 62-46in the other semifinal.
Russell Sims led Mercerwith 14 points and eight re-bounds, Jordan Duncan hadfive points and sevenboards, and Mercer was out-rebounded 37-27.
Ronnie Carson had 16points, Cody Collins added13 points and nine reboundsand Michael Rexroat andTashan Hairston eachscored 10 for East Jes-samine.
A putback from Simsmade it 25-11, but theJaguars closed on a 10-5 runand led 35-17 at the half.
e Jaguars were 13 for 27in the first half and finished26 for 59 from the field andmade 19 of 22 free throws.ey also had just fourturnovers in the first half,and 12 for the game.
“at’s just execution andbeing focused,” O’Bryansaid. “I liked our focus, Iliked our intensity, therewere a couple of momentswhere a couple of guys mayhave let up, but for the mostpart I thought they allbrought it the whole game. Ithought that was a greatteam effort.”
Collins scored sevenstraight points as East Jes-samine scored 15 of the first17 points of the third quarterfor a 47-15 lead. TimmyBradshaw’s 3-point thenmade it 50-21 going to thefourth quarter.
Over the second and thirdquarters, Mercer was just 6
for 24, and it made 19 of 43shots for the game. e Ti-tans were 2 for 10 from 3-point range, 3 for 8 from thefree throw line and commit-ted 18 turnovers.
Britt said not being ableto run hurt his team.
“ey didn’t pressure usas much, and that elimi-nated the transition bas-kets,” Britt said. “ey’re oneof the most athletic teams inour region, and senior-dom-inated and very experi-enced.”
O’Bryan said the key wasnot letting Mercer get outand run.
“eir transition haskilled us the first two games,and we had to try and limitthat,” he said. “I think in thefirst half they only got one,and a couple in the secondhalf, and that was key, mak-ing sure we got back.”
e Titans return the bulkof their team next season,losing only seniors AustinHorn, Matthew Hamiltonand Nathan McGinnis, andBritt said this has been agreat season of learning.
“What we gained from itis we can’t step on the floor,just like any other team, andexpect to win,” he said. “Get-ting better happens in theoffseason, getting betterhappens over the summer.And there’s a lot of things wecan get better at.”
46th District TournamentAt Mercer CountySemifinalEast Jessamine 15 35 52 75Mercer County 9 17 21 43EAST JESSAMINE (26-4) — CameronThomas 7, C.J. Boyd 6, Tashan Hairston 6,Michael Rexroat 10, Taylor Harper 10, MikeJones 2, Ronnie Carson 16, Cody Collins 13,Timmy Bradshaw 5.MERCER (9-22)— Chris Goodman 5, John In-gram 5, Drew Davis 4, Russell Sims 14, AustinSparrow 4, Louis Price 4, Jordan Duncan 5,Tommy Craig 2.
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Jawan Grey scored 17points and Jay Hunnadded 15 as Danville ad-vanced to the semifinals ofthe boys 45th DistrictTournament with an 81-8victory over KentuckySchool for the Deaf in afirst-round game Tuesdayat Stanford.
Danville dealt KSD itsworst loss ever and heldthe Colonels to their low-est point total in 82 years,according to KSD assistantByron Wilson.
The fourth-seeded Ad-mirals will play host andNo. 1 seed Lincoln Countyin a semifinal tonight.
Rob Caudill scored ninepoints for Danville (13-14),which hit 11 3-point shots.The Admirals committedonly three turnovers andforced KSD (11-20) into 29.
The 73-point marginbroke the KSD record formargin of defeat, whichwas 69 points in a 108-39loss to McKinney in 1972.It was also the fewestpoints scored by theColonels since an 18-7 lossto Illinois School for theDeaf in 1931.
Bruce Gemmer, AdamTurner, Dillon Maynardand Valdin Kudic scoredtwo points each for KSD,which was 3 for 24 fromthe field and didn’t have afield goal in the secondhalf. Turner also had fiverebounds.
The Colonels broke aschool record for gamesplayed set in 1996-97.
45th District GirlsBoyle County 81, Ken-
tucky School for the Deaf6 — At Stanford, sistersEmmie and Hannah Harriscombined for 30 points tolead Boyle (15-15) overKSD (1-22) in a first-roundgame.
Eleven different playersscored for the fourth-seeded Rebels, who ad-vance to play top-seededLincoln County in a semi-final tonight at Lincoln.
Charlotte Judge hit two3-pointers in the first halffor KSD, but the Colonelsdid not score again. Theywere 2 for 22 from the fieldwith 23 turnovers.
Kaley Vickers led KSDwith five rebounds.
47th District BoysCasey County 55, Som-
erset 53 — At Mount Ver-non, Clay Cannon andBaylen Hill scored 14points each as Casey (4-26) ended an eight-gamelosing streak with a semifi-nal win over Somerset (11-13).
Luke Carman added 12points for the Rebels, whohad lost by 35 and eightpoints to the Briar Jumpersduring the regular season.They will play PulaskiCounty in Friday’s final.
Tuesday’s Area High School LinescoresBOYS
45th District TournamentAt Lincoln CountyFirst RoundKentucky School f/t Deaf 2 6 7 8Danville 24 42 63 81KSD (11-20) — Bruce Gemmer 2, AdamTurner 2, Dillon Maynard 2, Valdin Kudic 2.DANVILLE (13-14) — Tryston Ford 8,Christian Gateskill-Fuqua 2, Leroy Hawkins3, Rob Caudill 9, Katon Emerson 7, Jay Hunn15, Jawan Grey 17, Damir Karapandzic 8,Kyle Lange 8, Alex Burnside 4.
47th District TournamentSemifinalAt Rockcastle CountyCasey County 12 27 38 55Somerset 8 26 37 53CASEY (4-26) — Cannon 14, Bianconi 1,Carman 12, Scott 3, Leigh 6, Smith 3, Hill14.SOMERSET (11-13) — Cheuvrant 13,Lange 8, Gordon 9, McWilliams 5, Dishman18.
GIRLS45th District TournamentAt Lincoln CountyFirst RoundKentucky School f/t Deaf 3 6 6 6Boyle County 27 50 69 81KSD (1-22) — Charlotte Judge 6.BOYLE (15-15) — Emmie Harris 17, Han-nah Harris 13, Kalin Bottoms 9, Cami Holton8, Mary Fyfe 7, Marlee Smith 6, Natalie Set-tle 6, Lauren Richards 4, Shelby Bishop 4,Dee Foster 5, Ashley White 2.
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Mercer County’s Russell Sims drives on East Jessamine’s Cameron Thomas in Tuesday’s loss. Sims led theTitans with 14 points.
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“Once they hit two 3s back to back and we got down by double digits, we had to come awayfrom our game plan a little bit. And that led to forcing some things, getting some turnovers.”
Mercer County coach Brian Britt
Hal Morris/[email protected]
Burgin’s Zack Irvine scores and is fouled by West Jessamine’s DaultonPeters (34) in the second half Tuesday. The Bulldogs ended their mostsuccessful season in 71 years with a loss to the Colts.
