Trojan basketball battles Spartans

All four Garner basketball teams return home to Trojan Coliseum tonight as they take on the Smithfield-Selma Spartans.

Both JV teams will kick off the evening with the JV Girls at 4 followed by the JV boys at 5:15. Varsity action begins with Coach Mays and his lady Trojans who look to remain in the race for a playoff spot when they battle the Spartans at 6:30.

Coach Gray and his league leading Trojans provide the nightcap as they take on the slumping Spartans with tip-off slated for 8:00.

The Trojan Sports Network will be on the air with a LIVE WEB CAST BEGINNING AT 7:45.

You can also listen to the game on your iPhone by downloading the TuneIn Radio application and search "Garner High School."

Tack has good showing at conference championship

Congratulations to Theodore Brown who placed second in the Boys Triple Jump
Kameron Manley finished third in the Girls 500 meter Dash. Boys 4x400 relay finished third with time of 3:38 one second off the qualifying time.

Coach George said, "Overall proud of the efforts of all participants in the meet, and we are looking forward to the spring season."

For a complete list of results, CLICK HERE.

Vote for Coach Gray for Sports Council Award

Garner head basketball coach, Eddie Gray has been selected by the Raleigh Sports Club as a finalist for their Amateur Athletics Award. The award is presented to someone in amateur sports who has made an impact over the past year(s) on their community.

The winner will be announced and the award presented on February 16th in an event at the RBC Center.

However, Trojan Nation needs to do their part to rally behind the head coach of the Trojans and cast your vote for Coach Gray.

In order to vote, CLICK HERE and follow the instructions. The voting runs until February 10th so make sure your voice is heard.

Congratulations, Coach Gray!

This Week in Trojan Athletics Show returns tonight

The Trojan Sports Network will return to Aversboro Restaurant tonight at 7:00 as they take a look at what's going on this week around Trojan Sports.

We encourage you to attend the show at Aversboro Restaurant at 1411 Aversboro Road in Garner.

However, if you can't make it to the show you can listen live to the show which begins at 7:00 by CLICKING HERE.

Aversboro Restaurant

Balanced effort leads Trojans past Warriors

WEB CAST.

Garner placed five players in double figures on Tuesday night as they hammered East Wake 88-63 to sweep the season series from the Warriors.

The Trojans (15-2, 8-1) started off on an 8-0 spurt before East Wake finally got on the board midway trough the first quarter. Garner's big men took advantage of their size in the pain as Dominique Reed and DaShawn Stabler led the men of Troy to a 20-10 lead after the opening stanza.

East Wake (7-11, 5-4) tried to mount a comeback in the second quarter an managed to pull to within 10 points before Garner got on a roll as Stabler scored six of his 10 first half points in the second quarter while the Warriors was paced by Quincy Jackson who poured in six of his 10 in the second stanza but it wasn't enough for East Wake as Garner lead 42-26 at the break.

The game began to slip away from the Warriors in the third quarter as Josh McClain dropped in six of his 18 points in the third and helped pace the Trojans to a 62-48 advantage heading into the final quarter.

Garner got sloppy in the final quarter which, in turn allowed the Warriors to make it a 10-point game at 64-54 with 7:10 left in the game. After a Trojan timeout, Garner outscored East Wake 12-9 to pull away in the end with eight points in the final 30 seconds, six of them by Larry Richardson to take home the 88-63 victory.

The Trojans finished the game with 82 of their 88 points in the paint.

Garner returns home on Friday night at 8:00 when they welcome Smithfield-Selma to Trojan Coliseum.

FINAL SCORING

Garner: Dominique Reed 20, Josh McClain 18, Larry Richardson 16, DaShawn Stabler 12, Cameron Redd 10, Demarcus Sanford 8, Julius Barnes 4.

East Wake: Alex Cowen 15, Josh Siler 14, Shaquille Leach 11, Quincy Jackson 10, Chris Pernell 5, Zavier Strickland 3, David Field 2, Jerry Goodson 2, Mitchell Beck 1.

Lady Trojans Fall

Garner couldn't complete their upset bid of East Wake on Tuesday night as they dropped the road contest 54-39.

The Lady Trojans trailed by just six at 29-23 at the break however, in the second half the Warriors used their size and full court pressure to stifle the Garner comeback.

Coach Mays and his squad returns to Trojan Coliseum on Friday night at 6:30 when they host Smithfield-Selma.

JV Splits

JV Girls fall to East Wake 47-31. They return home to host SSS on Friday at 4:00

JV Boys down East Wake 37-35, they will be back at home on Friday night at 5:15 when they take on Smithfield-Selma.

Swimmers take top spot

Congrats again to the Lady Trojan swimmers on their second straight GNRC swim team title. The boys team finishes runner-up with 355 to allow Garner their first combined team title.

Jessica Martin in the 50 freestyle, Lindsay Wright in the 100 butterfly, Natalie Buitrago in the 100 freestyle and Emily Martin in the 100 breaststroke take individual titles.

Lady Trojan relay teams taking 1st place: 200 yard medley & 200 yard freestyle (Maggie Ennis, E.Martin, J.Martin & Buitrago), 400 yard freestyle (Buitrago, Gabi Dugal, Ennis & E.Martin). Daniel Gerrald wins the One Meter Diving for the boys team. Congrats to Coach Tad Berube and the teams!

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Trojan Athletics - Saturday Update

Several Trojan teams were in action on Saturday and we are happy to provide you with updates as they are made available to us.


Theodore Brown claims second in the Triple Jump at the Eastern High School Challenge track meet at UNC-Chapel Hill. Full results for the meet can be found HERE.

The Garner swim team captured the Greater Neuse River Conference Championship on Saturday at Smithfield Aquatic Center. The Trojans won the combined team score with 788 points. Clayton High School finished second.

Congratulations also to the Varsity cheerleaders posted a third place finish in competition at Dorton Arena. The Wake County Championship meet is slated for next weekend.

Great job Trojans!

Garner thwarts Clayton

WEB CAST.

In their first game in a week, Garner placed three players in double figures as they downed the Clayton Comets 76-60 on Friday night inside Trojan Coliseum.

Garner (14-2, 7-1) start off sluggish scoring just 13 points in the opening quarter but the men of Troy were paced by Josh McClain who scored six of his 19 points in the first stanza to help lift Garner to a 13-11 lead after one quarter. Adonis Banks became the go to player for the Comets as he scored 19 to lead the visitors but scored 11 of those in the first half.

After both coaches received technical fouls in the second quarters, the momteum shifted toward the Trojans as they fed the ball inside to Dominique Reed who poured in 11 of his game high 22 in the first half and helped send Garner to the locker room up 38-28.

Clayton (10-5, 5-3) came out to start the second half and gave up four quick points as they managed just 10 points for the majority of the third allowing the Trojans to pull away as they led 61-43 after three.

In the games final period, the Trojans managed to grow their lead and finish the game contest with the 76-60 victory.

The Trojans return to action on Tuesday night when they travel to East Wake, tip off is slated for 8:00.

Varsity Girls lose heart breaker

Garner managed just three first quarter points on Friday night but battled their way back to a 24-23 halftime deficit and managed to work their way back into the game against the Comets before dropping the game in overtime 56-54.

Trailing by two late in the game, Kelsey Bryan hit a lay up before the buzzer sounded to send the game to the extra period knotted at 46.

The game was not decided until the final seconds with Clayton up by two, the Lady Trojans couldn't complete the comeback as they fell to the Comets 56-54.

Garner will be back in action on Tuesday night at 6:30 when they travel to East Wake.

JV Basketball Splits with Comets

Coach Ellerbee and her JV Lady Trojans earned a win over Clayton on Friday night with a 51-29 victory. Garner will travel to East Wake on Tuesday night at 4:00

The JV boys couldn't hit a shot to tie the game at the buzzer as they fell to Clayton 48-46, the JV Trojans will be at East Wake on Tuesday at 5:15.