The annual Alumni games along with the Father/Son JV game and GCS varsity boys playing the Faculty games took place on Friday, January 6. The Alumni even year graduates won for the first time since the new format was added. Led by 14 points from 2006 graduate Michael Fulmer and 12 points from Xavier Coker (2010) the even alumni pushed ahead after trailing at halftime 22-16. The final score was 59-39. Also scoring for the winners were John Scahill 9, Cody Morrison 8, Josh Ham and Daniel Monney 5 each and John Winn 4. Scoring for the losers were Brandon Nicholson (09) 15 points, Ryan Gaskins (09) 10 points, Derek Knight (05) 8 points, Cole Lanigan (07) 4 points and Kenny Knight (95) 2 points.
The Alumni girls defeated the GCS Varsity girls team 39-24. After a close 3 quarters the alumni pulled away in the fourth quarter for their final margin of victory. Jen Colwell (09) contributed 12 points with Leigh Partlow (05) scoried 9 points to pace the alumni ladies. Also scoring for the lady alumni were Amber Scahill, Laurynn Gorski, Katie Stevens, Skylar Lawrence, Brittany Webster with Katie Colwell and Olivia Downs also playing. The varsity girls were led in scoring by seniors Rachel Hair and Brittany Masqualier.
In the first game of the evening the dads defeated their JV sons. The games final game saw the faculty defeat the GCS varsity boys team 59-47. The faculty pulled away in the fourth quarter to secure the victory. Mr Kizzire and Mr Stevens scored 13 point a piece to lead the faculty. The Varsity was led by Andrew Kirchinger with 15 points and Caleb Martin, 13 points.
The Lions get back to action this Friday facing Sumter CS. This is also the Homecoming game and the 2012 Homecoming Queen will be crowned before the final game of the evening. |