The Newport Plain Talk

NEWPORT-The opening night of the 2009-10 Cocke CountyElementary Basketball Tournament was dominated by runaway contests at CockeCounty High School.

After revising the tournament brackets, the annual eventopened with two play-in contests featuring the eighth and nine seeds playingeach other and the second seed against the seventh seed in the girls bracket onopening night for the first time in the event's recent history.

The brackets were changed to allow for both No. 1 seedsin the brackets to play on Tuesday night as opposed to the original formattingof the brackets, which had the top seeds opening their tournament play onThursday, which would have put them playing on three consecutive nights shouldthe reach the championship game.

In girls play, eight seed Del Rio topped Northwest 36-9and No. 2 seed Edgemont topped Parrottsville 43-9.

The lone boys contest of the night provided the closestgame as No. 9 Northwest upset No. 8 Centerview by a 44-43 margin.

Tournament play will resume on Tuesday with threecontests.

In the boys bracket, No. 2 Smoky Mountain will play No. 7Del Rio at 5 p.m. and No. 1 Parrottsville will play Northwest at 7:30 p.m. Inthe lone girls contest Tuesday, No. 1 Grassy Fork will play No. 8 Del Rio at6:15 p.m.

Northwest tops Centerview

The opening contest of the boy's tournament was the bestgame on Monday, as the two teams battled to the wire and each having a chanceto win in the final possession.

Northwest got the go-ahead basket with 17 seconds toplay, but Centerview was unable to get a solid look at the basket out of atimeout on their final possession which sealed the victory for the Patriots.

The Patriots led the game 18-12 at halftime on thestrength of 10 first half points from Kinsler Rea.

However, Centerview came storming back to tie the game at29 at the end of three quarters, with a 17-point period. Ryder Keedwill scored10 of the Falcons' 17 points in the quarter.

Northwest however prevailed victorious in the final quarterof play.

Northwest (44): Kinsler Rea 22, Barren Pruitt 9,Francisco Torres 7, Michael Hembree 6.

Centerview (43): Colin White 16, Ryder Keedwell 12, NickMyers 6, Kelby Hayes 4, Joseph Hill 3, Dylan Brockwell 2.

No. 2 Edgemont advances

Despite being originally scheduled to play on Tuesday,the second-seed Lady Panthers were ready to play.

Edgemont led 7-0 at the end of a quarter and 22-5 athalftime over the seventh-seeded Lady Parrotts of Parrottsville.

Sharina Cofield led Edgemont in the first half with sevenpoints and Ashley Green had six.

The rout continued in the second half, as Edgemont led33-7 at the end of the third on their way to the 43-9 win.

Green scored nine points in the second half to compileher game-high 15 points.

Edgemont (43): Ashley Green 15, Sharina Cofield 11,Taylor Thornton 6, Bethanie Williams 5, Delessa Stewart 2, Ashley Hayes 2,Abigail Chambers 2.

Parrottsville (9): Cassie Holt 4, Abbie Ramsey 3, KatieHolt 2.

No. 8 Lady Trojans win easily

The Lady Trojans of Del Rio had little trouble advancingpast the Lady Patriots of Northwest.

A sloppily played first half saw the Lady Trojans widentheir 9-0 first quarter lead into a 23-2 advantage at the break. Del Rio'sAutumn Stokely scored all 13 of her game-high points in the opening 12 minutes.

Del Rio continued their dominance in the third quarter,leading 32-4 at the end of three quarters, on their way to the 36-9 win.

Del Rio (36): Autumn Stokely 13, Angel Mayes 4, EmilyStinson 6, Megan Turner 3, Amber Wilds 1, Jaycie Langston 3, Kristen Conard 6.

Northwest (9): Cherie Smith 5, Tiffany Tyler2, Morgan Cody 2

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