POCA - During the course of the game, each side faced an obstacle. Poca cleared its hurdle with room to spare and kept right on going, but Herbert Hoover never got off the deck.
POCA - During the course of the game, each side faced an obstacle. Poca cleared its hurdle with room to spare and kept right on going, but Herbert Hoover never got off the deck.
Freshman Noah Frampton scored a career-best 20 points Friday night and the Dots broke open a close game with a late run to post a 61-50 Cardinal Conference victory over the Huskies.
It was the sixth straight win for Poca (10-4) and marked the largest margin of defeat all season for the Huskies (8-6), whose other five losses came by a combined 21 points.
The Dots received solid efforts from Frampton, who also had a team-high five steals, and senior George Hamrick (15 points, three steals) to make up for the near game-long absence of 6-foot-3 senior Clinton Parsons, the Dots' leading scorer by far, top rebounder and most experienced player. Parsons missed almost the entire second and third quarters with foul problems.
"We tried to step us as a team,'' Frampton said. "We work well together as a team, and it fell into place. I just tried to help my teammates. I didn't try to score or anything.''
The game was airtight for three quarters as neither side led by more than four points and the score was tied seven times. Then it all came apart for Hoover with less than 61/2 minutes left.
The Huskies started the final period with a 33-32 lead, but Parsons buried a 3-pointer and turned a Hamrick steal into another jumper, giving the Dots the lead for good at 37-33. Then seconds later came a scuffle at Hoover's offensive end.
Cody Morris, a 6-6 junior and the Huskies' top inside player, was being hounded by two defenders as he dribbled at the top of the key and one poked the ball loose. As the Dots gained possession with bodies all over the floor, a scrum ensued between Morris and Poca's Jake Payne. Morris was whistled for both a personal foul and a technical foul at the 6:20 mark.
Payne made both ends of his 1-and-1, Cam Cottrill sank two technical free throws and Poca converted its ensuing possession with a Hamrick basket. Suddenly, a game that had been nothing but close was being blown open, with the Dots ahead 43-33. Poca scored the first 12 points of the period as was never again up by fewer than 10.
"That was the turning point in the game,'' said Hoover coach Jeff Gandee of the double foul on Morris. "It's one of those things that happens. I thought our boy got fouled pretty hard first. Obviously, he got upset and retaliated.
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Poca pulls away from Hoover
POCA - During the course of the game, each side faced an obstacle. Poca cleared its hurdle with room to spare and kept right on going, but Herbert Hoover never got off the deck.
Freshman Noah Frampton scored a career-best 20 points Friday night and the Dots broke open a close game with a late run to post a 61-50 Cardinal Conference victory over the Huskies.
It was the sixth straight win for Poca (10-4) and marked the largest margin of defeat all season for the Huskies (8-6), whose other five losses came by a combined 21 points.
The Dots received solid efforts from Frampton, who also had a team-high five steals, and senior George Hamrick (15 points, three steals) to make up for the near game-long absence of 6-foot-3 senior Clinton Parsons, the Dots' leading scorer by far, top rebounder and most experienced player. Parsons missed almost the entire second and third quarters with foul problems.
"We tried to step us as a team,'' Frampton said. "We work well together as a team, and it fell into place. I just tried to help my teammates. I didn't try to score or anything.''
The game was airtight for three quarters as neither side led by more than four points and the score was tied seven times. Then it all came apart for Hoover with less than 61/2 minutes left.
The Huskies started the final period with a 33-32 lead, but Parsons buried a 3-pointer and turned a Hamrick steal into another jumper, giving the Dots the lead for good at 37-33. Then seconds later came a scuffle at Hoover's offensive end.
Cody Morris, a 6-6 junior and the Huskies' top inside player, was being hounded by two defenders as he dribbled at the top of the key and one poked the ball loose. As the Dots gained possession with bodies all over the floor, a scrum ensued between Morris and Poca's Jake Payne. Morris was whistled for both a personal foul and a technical foul at the 6:20 mark.
Payne made both ends of his 1-and-1, Cam Cottrill sank two technical free throws and Poca converted its ensuing possession with a Hamrick basket. Suddenly, a game that had been nothing but close was being blown open, with the Dots ahead 43-33. Poca scored the first 12 points of the period as was never again up by fewer than 10.
"That was the turning point in the game,'' said Hoover coach Jeff Gandee of the double foul on Morris. "It's one of those things that happens. I thought our boy got fouled pretty hard first. Obviously, he got upset and retaliated.
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POCA - During the course of the game, each side faced an obstacle. Poca cleared its hurdle with room to spare and kept right on going, but Herbert Hoover never got off the deck.
Freshman Noah Frampton scored a career-best 20 points Friday night and the Dots broke open a close game with a late run to post a 61-50 Cardinal Conference victory over the Huskies.
It was the sixth straight win for Poca (10-4) and marked the largest margin of defeat all season for the Huskies (8-6), whose other five losses came by a combined 21 points.
The Dots received solid efforts from Frampton, who also had a team-high five steals, and senior George Hamrick (15 points, three steals) to make up for the near game-long absence of 6-foot-3 senior Clinton Parsons, the Dots' leading scorer by far, top rebounder and most experienced player. Parsons missed almost the entire second and third quarters with foul problems.
"We tried to step us as a team,'' Frampton said. "We work well together as a team, and it fell into place. I just tried to help my teammates. I didn't try to score or anything.''
The game was airtight for three quarters as neither side led by more than four points and the score was tied seven times. Then it all came apart for Hoover with less than 61/2 minutes left.
The Huskies started the final period with a 33-32 lead, but Parsons buried a 3-pointer and turned a Hamrick steal into another jumper, giving the Dots the lead for good at 37-33. Then seconds later came a scuffle at Hoover's offensive end.
Cody Morris, a 6-6 junior and the Huskies' top inside player, was being hounded by two defenders as he dribbled at the top of the key and one poked the ball loose. As the Dots gained possession with bodies all over the floor, a scrum ensued between Morris and Poca's Jake Payne. Morris was whistled for both a personal foul and a technical foul at the 6:20 mark.
Payne made both ends of his 1-and-1, Cam Cottrill sank two technical free throws and Poca converted its ensuing possession with a Hamrick basket. Suddenly, a game that had been nothing but close was being blown open, with the Dots ahead 43-33. Poca scored the first 12 points of the period as was never again up by fewer than 10.
"That was the turning point in the game,'' said Hoover coach Jeff Gandee of the double foul on Morris. "It's one of those things that happens. I thought our boy got fouled pretty hard first. Obviously, he got upset and retaliated.
"I'm not going to get into the officials as far as [what was called] but I don't understand how you get two infractions out of a play when there was no deadball incident. We had a similar incident earlier this year at Tolsia and all we got was a technical and the ball out [of bounds]. But tonight we didn't recover from there.''
Now down by double digits, Hoover had to take chances on defense, hoist more 3-pointers on offense and put the Dots on the foul line. Poca again rose to the challenge, sinking 16-of-21 free throws in the fourth quarter to ice it.
"Twenty-one foul shots - that'll break you in half,'' Gandee said. "But that's the type of game it turned into, and that doesn't fit our style well.
"It was a very physical game, and that's Poca's style. Give coach [Allen] Osborne and his team credit for that. That's the style of play he incorporates, he expects it out of his kids and they did a good job with it tonight. It definitely affected us offensively. It's one of those things that's hard to overcome.''
Parsons finally got to stay on the court in the fourth quarter and tallied 10 of his 18 points for the Dots. Poca made all six of its field-goal tries in the final period and was 11-of-14 in the second half after trailing 20-18 at halftime minus Parsons.
"Our kids really played hard, and played well defensively,'' Osborne said. "We made them work for everything they got. We got in foul trouble, but our other guys stepped up.
"You worry about playing [without Parsons] because he's your leading scorer and the guy with the most experience. We were really concerned. But the other guys made some plays. Again, if you play good defense, you can stay in the game and I'm proud of that.''
Morris led Hoover in scoring with 22 points, five off his season high, and also grabbed seven rebounds to help the Huskies to a 25-20 edge off the boards. However, top scorer Charlton Gandee (4-of-13 shooting) managed just eight points and Hoover committed 20 turnovers.
Clayton Edens also scored eight points for the Huskies with four assists.
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Poca pulls away from Hoover
POCA - During the course of the game, each side faced an obstacle. Poca cleared its hurdle with room to spare and kept right on going, but Herbert Hoover never got off the deck.
Freshman Noah Frampton scored a career-best 20 points Friday night and the Dots broke open a close game with a late run to post a 61-50 Cardinal Conference victory over the Huskies.
It was the sixth straight win for Poca (10-4) and marked the largest margin of defeat all season for the Huskies (8-6), whose other five losses came by a combined 21 points.
The Dots received solid efforts from Frampton, who also had a team-high five steals, and senior George Hamrick (15 points, three steals) to make up for the near game-long absence of 6-foot-3 senior Clinton Parsons, the Dots' leading scorer by far, top rebounder and most experienced player. Parsons missed almost the entire second and third quarters with foul problems.
"We tried to step us as a team,'' Frampton said. "We work well together as a team, and it fell into place. I just tried to help my teammates. I didn't try to score or anything.''
The game was airtight for three quarters as neither side led by more than four points and the score was tied seven times. Then it all came apart for Hoover with less than 61/2 minutes left.
The Huskies started the final period with a 33-32 lead, but Parsons buried a 3-pointer and turned a Hamrick steal into another jumper, giving the Dots the lead for good at 37-33. Then seconds later came a scuffle at Hoover's offensive end.
Cody Morris, a 6-6 junior and the Huskies' top inside player, was being hounded by two defenders as he dribbled at the top of the key and one poked the ball loose. As the Dots gained possession with bodies all over the floor, a scrum ensued between Morris and Poca's Jake Payne. Morris was whistled for both a personal foul and a technical foul at the 6:20 mark.
Payne made both ends of his 1-and-1, Cam Cottrill sank two technical free throws and Poca converted its ensuing possession with a Hamrick basket. Suddenly, a game that had been nothing but close was being blown open, with the Dots ahead 43-33. Poca scored the first 12 points of the period as was never again up by fewer than 10.
"That was the turning point in the game,'' said Hoover coach Jeff Gandee of the double foul on Morris. "It's one of those things that happens. I thought our boy got fouled pretty hard first. Obviously, he got upset and retaliated.
