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February 7, 2018
MARY PERSONS BULLDOGS
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SPRING SPORTS
5 p.m.
C-Team Girls Sbccer
(vs. Jones County)
5:30 p.m.
Varsity Boys Basketball
(vs. Spalding)
6p.m.
C-Team Boys Soccer
(vs. J0nes C0unty)
8:30 p.m.
Varsity Boys Basketball
(vs. Ups0n-Lee)
4 p.m.
Varsity Girls and Boys Tennis
(vs. N0rthside)
5:30 p.m.
Varsity Girls Soccer
Jackson)
7:30 p.m.
Varsity Boys Soccer
(vs. Jackson)
BOYS BASKETBALL
1.Ups0n Lee 244)
2.St.Pius 22-3
3.Ame.-Sumter 23-2
4. Sandy Creek 20-5
5.Westover 19-6
6. Baldwin 19-6
7.Salem 19-5
8, Cartersville 18-5
9. Carver-Col. 18-7
10. Mary Persons 22-3
Source:AJC.com
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MP enters home
region tournament
with record
number of wins
By Richard Dumas
forsyth@mymcr.net
The Mary Persons Bulldogs.set anew school.
record for most wins in a single season with an
85-77 home victory over Perry on Senior Night
on Tuesday, Jan. 30.
The Bulldogs, 22-3 overall (7-3 in Region
2-AAAA), whose postgame joy was tempered
by a first-haft ankle injury to all-around star
Cam Holden, broke MFs previous school
record of 21, set in 1967. MP also previously
reached 20 wins in 1996, 2005 and 2008.
After honoring the team's seven seniors
before the game, MP got off to an electric start
against a talented Panthers' squad, scoring the
first 10 points of the contest, including three-
pointers by Rekia Weaver and Dee Morton.
MP would eventually lead 22-13 after one
period. The Bulldogs still led by seven points at
26-19 with 5:06 left in the second quarter when
Holden, who had already scored 12 of MP's
26 points, went up for an offensive rebound
and landed on the foot of a Perry player.
After several minutes Holder/, who roned
right ankle, was ass' ted off the court by 1VIP
trainer Jeff Quinn and head coach Greg Nix
and returned to the bench late in the game on
crutches with ice taped to his ankle. Without
Holder MP, which only defeated the Panthers
by three points in their previous meeting,
unexpectedly added to its lead in the second
quarter. MFs Tre Edge buried a three-po'mter
from the top of the key with 1:45 left in the
Mary Persons senior Tre Edge, converting thistayup over a Perry defender, was one of seven MP boys'
seniors honored prior to MP's 85-77 home win over the Panthers.The victory set a new school record
for single season wins and clinched MP's spot as the No. 2 seed in this week's Region 2-AAAA Tourna-
ment at James R Evans Gymnasium. MP has finished as the runner-up to Upson-Lee in each of the
past two years. (Photo/Kim Holderfield)
second quarter, and MP finished the first half
on a 17-7 run fonowir g Holdeffs injury to take
a 43-26 halftime advantage.
MP ext6nded its lead to 19 points at 51-32
with six minutes left in the third quarter on
an old-fashioned three-point play by Weaver,
but the Panthers began to slowly chip away
at the Dogs' lead. Back-to-back Perry layups,
including a three-point conversion by Rontren
Harrell, pulled the Panthers back to within
single digits at 57-48 with 1:58 left in the third
period. However, a driving layup by Edge with
just one tick left on the third quarter clock
gave MP a 12-point lead heading into the
See MP BOYS. Page 2B
Mary Persons senior Abigail Hightower, trapped in the
corner by a Perrydefender during the fourth quarter
of MP's 47-42 home win over the Panthers on Jan. 30,
hit the go-ahead three-pointer in MP's unlikely victory.
(Photo/Richard Dumas)
region tourney
By Richard Dumas
forsyth@mymcr.net
The Mary Persons girls basketball team finished
up a dismal 3-24 season with a 57-37 Region
2-AAAA tournament loss to Upson-Lee on Monday
afternoon.
Playing on its home floor, MP led 15-8 through
one quarter before the Lady Knights erupted for
24 points in the second period, outscorifig the Lady
Dogs 24-10 to take a seven-point halftime at 32-25.
Led by senior Kver Shannon, who scored a
team-high 16 points in her final game in an MP
uniform, the Lady Dogs mounted a fierce charge
early in the third quarter as Shannon's corner
three-pointer capped an 8-2 run that pulled MP
to within one point at 34-33. But with MP trail-
ing 38-33, Shannon was called for a reach-in foul,
her fourth of the game, late in the third period,
and MP head coach Lamon McElhaney elected
to sit Shannon on the bench for the next several
minutes. With Shannon out, Upson-Lee's Lashae
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