WEB CAST.
Coming into Conference play, Coach Gray had one goal and that was to be the first team to win all their conference games, and on Tuesday night, the Trojans took another step toward achieving their goal as they blasted Clayton 73-49.
Garner and Clayton played a typical Garner/Clayton first quarter as the Trojans held a 17-13 after one, but in the second quarter, Garner really began to separate themselves thanks to the inside play of Stephon Drane and D'Andre Anderson, and Garner also had a great defensive effort in the first half on Clayton's Adam Parrish.
Parrish scored 17 points and hit five three pointers in the first meeting with Garner, but in the first half of Tuesday's game, Parris had yet to score a point as the Trojans had a 34-23 halftime lead.
Clayton began to come back on Garner in the third quarter, as the Trojans left a lot of points at the free throw line, but they made up for those lost points with style points as Stephon Drane and D'Andre Anderson got loose for some impressive dunks to put the game out of reach as the Trojans opened up a 20 point lead early in the fourth quarter and never looked back as for the second straight year, Garner sweeps the season series with the Comets.
Garner (9-6, 8-0) extends their win streak to seven games, while Clayton (14-5, 6-3) had their eight game winning streak snapped.
***NOTE: The Varsity Game that was originally scheduled for Friday has a good chance of being moved to THURSDAY NIGHT at Knightdale due to a possible winter storm. A final decision will be posted as soon as it becomes known. Stay tuned***
Scoring:
Clayton: A. Parrish 11, J. Getty 11, S. Clayton 7, D. Johnson 6, K. Frasier 6, T. Jones 3, T. Williams 3.
GARNER: S. Drane 21, G. Wilson 14, D. Anderson 13, D. Johnson 10, D. Reed 6, E. McClain 5, J. McClain 4
Varsity Girls Fall to Comets
The Varsity Girls had another tough test on Tuesday night as they faced a Clayton team that was sitting atop the conference along with Southeast Raleigh.
But, for the first quarter, Garner hung with the Comets, however, in the second quarter, Clayton began to pull away and the Lady Trojans just couldn't stay with the Comets quickness as the Comets downed Garner 68-41.
