Quinton Cross Leads Northeast Eagles to 48-43 Middle School Championship Win Over Rossview Hawks

Friday, January 31, 2014

Clarksville, TN – Quinton Cross made six 3-pointers on his way to 26 points to lead the Northeast Eagles in their 48-43 win in the championship game on the boys side of the Middle School Basketball Tournament held at West Creek Middle School Thursday, January 30th.

The Championship game became a 3-point shootout as both teams buried 5 shots from downtown in the final period. Cross made the first and last 3-pointer of the game. His last broke a 41-41 tie with less than two minutes remaining in the game. The lead changed 13 times before Cross’ last 3-pointer gave the Eagles a 44-41 lead.

Northeast Middle School boy's basketball defeats Rossview at Middle School Championship. — Northeast Middle School boy’s basketball defeats Rossview at Middle School Championship.

Afterwards Cross made two free throws with 1:19 left on the clock to extend the Eagles lead to 5 points. The Hawks began fouling in order to close the gap in the last minute, but the Eagles remained out of reach. Cross made 4 of 6 free throws in the last minute for the Eagles.

Cross was one of four Eagles to score in the game. Rossview made five 3-pointers in the game, three in the final period. Clayton Spence led the Hawks with 12 points.

The win gave the Eagles first place in the tournament and made Rossview the runner up.

The Kenwood Knights defeated the Dickson Cougars 44-40 in the consolation round to earn third place in the tournament.

Kenwood’s Xa’von Johnson Clement led all scorers with 21 points. Darius Clark scored 9 points and Tashawn Wright added 8.

Demontez Coleman was one of two Cougars to score double digits. Coleman scored 14 and Darin Burns scored 12.

Down 19-15 at halftime, the Cougars scored 17 points in the third period to tie the game at 32. However, the Knights took advantage of turnovers and fouls to outscore the Cougars 12-8 in the last period and win the game.

Box Score

Championship Game

	1	2	3	4	Final
Northeast Eagles	13	4	14	17	48
Rossview Hawks	11	8	13	11	43

Northeast
Quinton Cross 26, Kaleb Mack 10, Isaiah Baker 7, Gus Antoine 5.

Rossview
Clayton Spence 12, Austin Jackson 10, Isaiah Phillips 9, Trey Galliday 6, Maximus Leinweber 6.

Consolation Game

	1	2	3	4	Final
Kenwood Knights	11	8	13	12	44
Dickson	8	7	17	8	40

Kenwood
Xa’von Johnson Clement 21, Darius Clark 9, Tashawn Wright 8, Allen Zirker 2, Elijah Vincent 2, Curtis Patterson 2.

Dickson
Demontez Coleman 14, Darin Burns 12, Chase Edmisson 7, Noah Edmisson 3, Kody Pardue 4.

Boys All-Tournament Team

Darin Burns – Dickson
Xa’von Johnson Clement – Kenwood
Allen Zirker – Kenwood
Isaiah Phillips – Rossview
Clayton Spence – Rossview
Kaleb Mack – Northeast
Gus Antoine – Northeast
Quinton Cross – Northeast
Tyree Bailey – West Creek
Skyler Luna – Richview
Jarius Satterfield – Montgomery Central
Isaiah Pridgen – New Providence