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Westover did a good job hanging around and even cut the lead to eight with its fresh second team on the floor, but the Hornets responde by closing the quarter on a 10-4 run.

Westover holding its own against SA. With a run in the second quarter they cut it to seven and had the ball. They may be outsized and outphysicaled on the inside, but they don’t appear overmatched.

Terrance Noel leads the way Westover in the first half and did a great job of attacking the basket. He was visibly frustrated after not getting some calls driving to the hole late. He has 12 at halftime.

As far as getting SA in foul traobule, that has not been happening. Nicklaus Jacobs has two, but Favors only has one foul. He is just dominating on the inside. He has 16 points and 12 rebounds already. Just unreal what he can do. Some TV guy has been walking around with a huge, white styrofoam hand. I am not sure why exactly, but the Pats might want to try stealing it and using it to defend Favors.

South Atlanta owned Westover’s first team, jumping out to a 13-2 lead. The second team held its own for the last four minutes, though. Greg Green really enjoying himself out there, he was talking a little trash with some of the SA guys and even told them to sit down while he shot three free throws at the end of the quarter.

Reminder to everybody showing here to follow the blog, feel free to follow along, but the game is on TV at Georgia Public Broadcast. It is set to tip at approx. 8:55 p.m.

I will be updating the blog with updates at the end of every quarter and more periodically during the fourth quarter. I will also have stats and some analysis at halftime.

Down press row the approximation on the spread on this game is Westover +30. Needless to say, not many people in the know giving the Patriots a chance. They said yesterday they love the underdog role. Be sure, if they can pull off the upset it will rank among the biggest upsets in recent GHSA tourney history. South Atlanta beat Region 1 rival Cairo in Round 2 by 43 points and haven’t lost to team in state all year.

Enjoy the game.

Whitefield shoots 33 of 52 from the free throw line and Turner commits 41 fouls while six players foul out – is that even possible?

Turner loses in the title game for the second straight season. And for the third straight season advance to the Final Four and come away empty-handed. Turner finishes the year 30-2.  

GPB running highlights of last year’s upset defeat against Hancock Central. Turner now has a new nightmare to try to wipe off its brain. For teh record. Turner has 10 fouls against and Whtiefield has four. Spears and Aadrian Jackson have fouled out. Breon Dixon has four. If he goes out, it will be lights out for Turner.

Disastrous start to the second half for Turner. Whitefield with an 11-0 run and Turner is in deep foul trouble. Chris Spears has four, Breon Dixon has four and Ternell Davis has three.

Turner and Whitefield exchange runs in a first half filled with fouls. Both teams ran deep into the double bonus. Kind of concerned at the insane amount of fouls called over the course of the week here in Macon, not letting them play. Though, for tonight’s game, a tightly called contest would swing heavily into the Patriots favor.

This game has been up and down the floor as expected. Whitefield is more than prepared to handle Turner.

Ternell Davis just missed 3-pointer after 3-pointer and jumper after jumper. At some point he will eithe eheat up or Turner will have to change its gameplan.

Well, one game in, we are already running 15 minutes late. This has the feeling of real long day until Westover and South Atlanta finally hit the floor in the finale tonight.

As for this game, remember, this game is on TV. I repeat, this game is on TV. Georgia Public broadcast.

I will be updating the score at every quarter, but it will not be as constant as if you followed the previous because, well, read the bold print.