West Point Christmas Classic Friday:
Game 1:
Corner 22 21 17 17 - 77 (13 & 3)
Danville 12 6 20 14 - 52 (2 & 14)
Corner: Talon Laird 19
Danville: Tristyn Barrett 21.
Game 2:
Springville 19 23 14 26 - 82 (13 & 1)
Good Hope 10 13 9 9 - 41 (5 & 8)
Springville: Cole Nixon 28
Good Hope: Kye McSwain 12, Christian Sims 11
Game 3:
Decatur Heritage 18 26 25 19 - 88 (11 & 1)
Gulf Shores 9 18 18 18 - 63 (8 & 5)
DH: Jordan Davis 21, Sam Gardner 21, Karter Jeffreys 17
Gulf Shores: Sam Vincent 34
GDW Analysis:
The winning team in each game gained a double digit advantage by halftime.
Decatur Heritage, 2nd in the 2A poll, poured in 26 in the 2nd to make it 44 to 27 on first time visitor Gulf Shores at intermission.
Consistency was on display with Corner and Springville in scoring better than 40 by the opening half. Corner led Danville 43 to 18 and Springville had Good Hope down 42 to 23 through 16:00 of play.
Laird, a shooting guard for Corner, ripped the cords for 5 treys and had his 19 points by the half.
Nixon from Springville and also a shooting guard, torched the basket for 15 in the 1st and would complete the afternoon with 28 in their victory against Good Hope.
Davis and Gardner were a 1/2 punch in the Decatur Heritage defeat of Gulf Shores.
Davis netted 13 by the break, Gardner would tally 12 in the 2nd half on 6 FGs.
Between the 2nd and 3rd, Heritage had outscored Gulf Shores 51 to 36.
Vincent was the only true weapon for Gulf Shores with 20 by halftime and 14 in the last half.
Saturday at Jim Boyd Gymnasium:
West Point vs. Danville 12:00
Corner vs. Decatur Heritage 1:30
Gulf Shores vs. Springville 3:00
The West Point game will be live on westpointwarriors.com
Photo of Good Hope SG Kye McSwain in a game vs. West Morgan December 18.
Photo courtesy of Cathy McSwain.
