Bowling Green splits with Silliman
By Darron Thomas
By Darron Thomas
Special to The Daily News
In Franklinton Friday night the Bowling Green Buccaneers and Lady Bucs opened up district play against the Silliman Wildcats and came away with a mixed bag. In the boys contest Bowling Green shook off a sluggish start against the Silliman 2-3 zone to earn a 63-34 win, but in the girls matchup Silliman pulled away in the 4th quarter to win 46-34.
In Franklinton Friday night the Bowling Green Buccaneers and Lady Bucs opened up district play against the Silliman Wildcats and came away with a mixed bag. In the boys contest Bowling Green shook off a sluggish start against the Silliman 2-3 zone to earn a 63-34 win, but in the girls matchup Silliman pulled away in the 4th quarter to win 46-34.
Coach Pat King’s varsity boys improved to 10-6 on the year, but more importantly, opened up district play with a 29 point win over the visiting Silliman Wildcats. After ending the first quarter tied at 11 Bowling Green’s pressure defense enabled the Bucs to build a 27-18 advantage at the midway point. Bowling Green came out in the third quarter and took complete control of the game capitalizing on Silliman turnovers to increase their lead to 49-23 after three quarters. The fourth quarter saw Bowling Green up its lead to 30 on numerous occasions before the ultimate 63-34 outcome.
Bowling Green was led by Shod Fortenberry’s 12 points, Blake McGehee and Jaron Edwards each contributed with 10, Dean King had 8, Andrew Wood, 7, Dylan Varnado, Brady Edwards and Buster Brown all had 4 each, and Seth McVea had 1 point.
Florian Doeinck led Silliman with 7 points.
In the girls contest a slow start put the Lady Bucs in catch-up mode quickly as they trailed 11-4 after the first quarter. As with the boys game, Silliman played an aggressive zone defense throughout the game but Bowling Green was able to cut the lead to 19-12 at halftime. The Lady Bucs opened up the third quarter with a run and eventually cut the margin to 25-23 after three quarters. But the wheels came off in the final period as cold shooting and turnovers hampered the Lady Bucs’ effort and Silliman put together a 21-point final quarter to earn the 12 point win. The Lady Bucs fell to 10-8 on the year and 0-1 in district play. Sophomore Brittany Cooper led Bowling Green with 15 points, Cadie Robertson added 11, Beth Reedy, and Whitney Crowe had 2 points.
Holly Weaver led Silliman with 18 points.
� Bowling Green traveled to Oak Forest on Saturday and will host Central Private Tuesday.
