Breach of trust - Alexandria Times

10 | January 12, 2012 ALEXANDRIA TIMESSportsFrustrated at first, Episcopalsmothers resurgent LandonRoundballroundupTitans suffer another district lossThe T.C. Williams Titans fell to yet anotherPatriot District rival Tuesday night. The SouthCounty Stallions rode to a 52-42 victory despitea powerful performance by T.J. Huggins.With a one-point halftime lead, T.C. struggledto slow down South County’s third-quarter rise. TheStallions scored 16 to the Titans’ nine and added to their leadwith a 19-point fourth quarter.Huggins, T.C.’s senior forward, led the team in scoring,netting 17 points in the conference matchup. Shooting guardJordan Byrd also enjoyed impressive offensive production.The junior scored 13 points — his second-best performanceof the season.The loss leaves the Titans at 6-3 on the season and 3-3 inthe conference heading into a Friday matchup with a 9-3 LakeBraddock squad. The Bruins are undefeated in Patriot Districtplay.DeMatha rolls through IretonPhoto/Derrick PerkinsArnaud Adala-Moto looks on as a teammate takes a foul shot during Tuesday night’s home victoryagainst Interstate Athletic Conference rival Landon.Maroon top Bears 71-55By Derrick PerkinsStaring down a resurgentLandon squad early in thesecond quarter, Episcopal seniorforward Arnaud Adala-Moto noticed every InterstateAthletic Conference gamewould be a hard-fought battle.After coming out strongagainst their conference rivalin the first quarter — enjoyingan 11-point lead — theMaroon hit a wall Tuesdaynight. Landon surged back totie up the game before goingtit-for-tat with Episcopal.“We were just trying tofind our defense,” Adala-Moto said. “We didn’t expectthem to play like that … Theywere pushing. They kind ofjumped to the ball.”Clawing for the ball,roughing up Episcopal’spoint guards and disruptingtransitions meant Landon,to that point, had seen morethan a few turnovers go theirway.Adala-Moto, dominatingthe game offensively earlyon, had become a nonfactorand the Bears showed nosigns of slowing when theyhad a chance at the net.Though the 9-1 Maroonkept the score close, the 8-5Bears landed a buzzer-beaterat the end of the second quarterto go up 35-34 against theNo. 9 team in the region.“I’ll give Landon a lotof credit — they closed thegap,” said coach Jim Fitzpatrick.“Once you get intoa tight game, then there areenough good players [onany IAC team] to stay in thegame.”Fitzpatrick pointed to histeam’s early struggles withrebounding and layups as keyproblems. With Landon unwillingto roll over and playdead the Maroon returned tothe court for the second halfready to get “back to basics,”the coach said.“We played zone andslowed Landon’s surge,”Fitzpatrick said. “Our zonedefense forced them to missshots … The momentumchanged.”The turning point came alittle more than four minutesinto the third quarter. Juniorguard Doug Chappell hit a3-pointer to tie up the game.About 20 seconds later,Landon fouled senior guardKethan Savage. He went onefor-twofrom the line, but itSEE Episcopal | 11After enjoying a three-game win streak tostart the new year, the Bishop Ireton Cardinalsmet their match against a top-ranked DeMathasquad Tuesday.The Stags lived up to their on-court reputation,grabbing an early lead and putting together a pairof 20-point-plus quarters in a 70-53 victory. Facing a teamranked No. 1 in the region by the Washington Post and No.2 nationally by CBS Sports, Ireton still managed to outscoreDeMatha in the second quarter.Ireton’s sophomore forward Ty Quarles netted 14 pointson the night while teammates Louis Khouri, a junior guard,and Daniel Noe, a fellow forward, came away with nine andeight points respectively.Ireton, 9-5 overall and 2-3 in the conference, looks tocome back against a 9-8 McNamara team in a Friday nightroad game.Saints struggle against Little HoyasWith just two wins to their names, the St.Stephen’s and St. Agnes Saints fell again at thehands of a high-flying Georgetown Prep team inAlexandria on Tuesday evening.The Little Hoyas came out firing, racking up21 points to the Saints’ 11 in the first quarter. With junior AlexFabian-Scotch enjoying a career night — the 5-foot-9 guardput up 31 points — there was little St. Stephen’s could do toslow Georgetown Prep.Despite the 76-59 loss, St. Stephen’s senior Justin Goldsboroughposted a second impressive showing in as manygames. Goldsborough netted 20 points in the defeat, matchinga season high of 20 against St. Anne’s-Belfield on Saturday.The 2-7 Saints, 2-0 in the division, face Benedictine on Fridayand St. Albans on Saturday in back-to-back road matchups.- Derrick Perkins