By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
DEWITT -- It came down to the final shot twice for the Hughes Blue Devils at the DeWitt Invitational Tournament over the weekend.
On Friday, against Holly Grove in the semifinals, the Blue Devils survived a last-second shot to clip the Panthers 54-53 to advance to Saturday's championship game.
Hughes, 5-3 for the year, led the entire game.
On Saturday, against White Hall, the Blue Devils trailed the entire game and needed a buzzer shot by Robert Davis to take a 50-49 win and the tournament championship.
Davis scored 47 points in the two games -- getting 18 against Holly Grove and 29 against White Hall.
"R.D. is stepping up his game to a level that, right now is unbelievable," said Hughes Coach Brad Brannen. "He is playing his heart out."
Against Holly Grove, the Blue Devils were nursing their one-point lead with three seconds to play when a jump ball was called by the officials giving possession to Holly Grove under their own basket.
A last-second shot off the inbounds play was off the mark.
Hughes led 18-14 after one period and 29-28 at the half. The Blue Devils pushed their lead to 46-36 by outscoring Holly Grove 17-to-8 in the third period but watched their lead dwindle when the Panthers reversed the tables and outscored Hughes 17-to-8 in the final period.
Antonio Cotton added nine points in the game while Chris Crawford helped out with eight points.
Saturday, against White Hall, Hughes trailed 49-46 with 33 seconds left in the game when Johnny Washington scored on a layup to cut White Hall's lead to 49-48 with seven seconds showing.
White Hall missed the front end of a one-and-one free throw situation and Davis, after the inbounds play, drove the length of the floor to bank in a running jumper at the buzzer for the one-point win.
Jay Doolittle had nine points for Hughes.
White Hall led 14-11 after one period and 29-22 at the half.
Hughes will host Forrest City Tuesday night at Blue Devil Gym.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
TURRELL -- It was clean sweep for the Turrell junior high and senior high basketball teams in the four finals of their own invitational played Friday and Saturday.
The Turrell Junior Lady Rockets used a 13-to-2 run to close out the second period on their way to a 54-40 win over the Forrest City White Junior Lady Mustangs Friday.
The Turrell run broke a 17-17 tie and put the Junior Lady Rockets up 30-19 at the half. Forrest City White never recovered.
Forrest City's leading scorer, Sequoria Grady was held to six points in the game after Turrell used a box-in-one defensively to keep her from scoring.
The Junior White Lady Mustangs will travel to Blytheville tonight.
In other championship games at Turrell, the senior lady Rockets defeated Parkin 58-55 and the senior Rockets defeated Parkin 88-48 in the boys final.
In the junior high boys finals Turrell downed Earle 35-24.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
CABOT -- The Forrest City Lady Mustangs fell to 0-4 for the season on Saturday, losing to Mount St. Mary's 58-29 at the Panther Invitational in Cabot.
"We're 0-4 but we've played the right teams," said Coach Sue Jayroe. "If we're going to improve this program, we have to play up to another level of opponents and that's what we're trying to do. We're 0-4 but I think we made some progress in the three games at Cabot. The kids played hard and worked hard."
Deosha Agnew led Forrest City with 13 points, the only Lady Mustang to finish in double figures.
The Lady Mustangs will travel to Hughes Tuesday night to take on the Lady Blue Devils at 6 p.m.
After Tuesday's game at Hughes, the Lady Mustangs do not play again until Friday, Dec. 14, when they host Wynne.
West Memphis 71, Cabot 48
The West Memphis Lady Blue Devils got 15 points and 14 rebounds from senior forward Kim Turner to put away Cabot 71-48 in the finals of the Panther Invitational.
West Memphis improves to 5-1 for the year and out-rebounded the Lady Panthers 42-29.
PB Dollarway 64, Palestine-Wheatley 36
The Palestine-Wheatley Lady Patriots failed to win a game at the Searcy White County Medical Center Tournament, falling to PB Dollarway 64-36 Friday, ending their stay.
The Lady Patriots fall to 2-5 for the year and have lost three straight.
* PREP FOOTBALL
2001 STATE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
CLASS AAAAA Championship Game
Bentonville 23, El Dorado 16
CLASS AAAA Championship Game
Wynne 34, Stuttgart 33
CLASS AAA Semifinal Round
Booneville 42, Nashville 12
Warren 47, Dollarway 13
Championship Game December 8, 6:30 p.m. War Memorial Stadium
Booneville vs. Warren
CLASS AA Semifinal Round
Shiloh Christian 21, Junction City 0
Augusta 20, Barton 8
Championship Game December 8, 12:00 War Memorial Stadium
Shiloh Christian vs. Augusta
* PREP BASKETBALL
Monday's Scores
Turrell Invitational Tournament at Turrell High School
Friday's Results
Championship Games
Junior Girls
Turrell 54, Forrest City White 40
Senior Girls
Turrell 58, Parkin 55
Saturday's Results
Senior Boys
Turrell 88, Parkin 48
Junior Boys
Turrell 35, Earle 24
Lion White County Medical Center Tournament at Searcy High School
Friday, November 30
Senior Girls
PB Dollarway 64, Palestine-Wheatley 36
Senior Boys
Mt. View 50, Palestine-Wheatley 48
Monday, December 3
Junior High
Forrest City White at Blytheville
WMemphis Wonder at Forrest City Blue
Tuesday, December 4
High School
Forrest City at Hughes, 5 p.m.
Palestine-Wheatley at Ark. Baptist