WHITLEY WINS

The Williamsburg Yellow Jackets lost to the Cumberland Redskins in the quarterfinals of the 13th Region All “A” Classic while the Corbin Redhounds put a scare into 13th region favorite, South Laurel before going down to defeat.
However, the Whitley County Colonels won for the sixth time as they knock off the North Laurel Jaguars at Lawson Gym.

Cumberland 67, Williamsburg 46
The Cumberland Redskins opened up a bug first quarter lead and cruised over the Yellow Jackets in the All “A” Regional at Cumberland.
” It’s a frustrating time,” said Williamsburg coach Patrick Robinson. “There is still a lot of things we have to work on but it’s getting kind of late in the year.”
“We didn’t shoot the ball well and we didn’t look inside enough,” said Robinson. “We’ve got to establish an inside game early and we didn’t do that.”
“We’ve got a lot of improvement to do over the next little bit,” said Robinson.
Williamsburg will be on the road Saturday when they travel to London to take on the South Laurel Cardinals.

Cumberland 67, Williamsburg 46
Williamsburg (46) – McCray 5, Taylor 8, Cunningham 9, Teague 7, Frazier 6, Kilgore 9, Williams 2.
Cumberland (67) – Simpson 13, Washington 2, Leski 14, Hogue 5, Johnson 17, Polson 5, Blanton 7, Hogue 4.

South Laurel 67, Corbin 60
The Corbin Redhounds led by six at the half but couldn’t hold off the region’s top team and lost to the Cardinals, 67-60.
South Laurel broke open a close game in the fourth quarter but was never able to put away Corbin.
Corbin (12-7) controlled the tempo in the first half and held a 26-20 lead at the break. But, the Cardinals came back in the second half to outscore the ‘Hounds, 47-34 to take the home-court win.
Sophomores Josh Smith and Josh Crawford led the Redhounds with 17 and 15 points respectively.
“I’m very proud of the way the kids was able to carry over the game plan tonight,” said Corbin coach Tony Pietrowski.
“The first half was really good and a well-coach South team made some adjustments and hurt us a little bit,” Pietrowski said. “It was really something to build on.”

South Laurel 67, Corbin 60
South Laurel (67) – Proffitt 8, Gilbert 4, Hamm 9, Smith 12, Hammonds 19, Bortrim 10, St. John 4.
Corbin (60) – Crawford 15, Barley 4, Johnson 13, Sewell 4, Smith 17, Wilson 2, Manns 4

Whitley Co. 71, North Laurel 62
The Colonels shot 59.1 from the field (19 of 49) to beat the cold shooting Jaguars (17 of 50).
However, Whitley County had to overcome the free throw shooting of the Jags who hit 25 of 34. The Colonels went to the line 18 times, hitting 12 of those.
Freshman Jamie Lebanion led the Colonels to the win, hitting 9 of 11 from the field. He had eight points in the opening quarter when the Colonels led 18-12.
North Laurel caught the Colonels in the second period but a basket by Michael Crawford gave the Colonels the lead for good (28-27).

Whitley Co. 71, North Laurel 62
Whitley Co. (71) – Lebanion 23, Lowrie 16, Crawford 9, Prewitt 10, Wynn 4, McCumbers 5, Roaden 2.
North Laurel (62) – Shannon 20, Stediel 18, Cottongim 10.