Falcons hit a century against the Silver Foxes
Tabias Dixon takes the ball up court for the Falcons.
Photos by Drake Horton
By Drake Horton, Contributing Writer
The Darlington Falcons put on an impressive show this past Tuesday, December 13, defeating the Lamar Silver Foxes 100-50 – and while a 50 point victory is impressive, it was how the Falcons accomplished that was even more impressive.
Darlington finished the game with six players, Tyshaun Johnson, Kris’shawn Hickman, Tabias Dixon, Aazon Cannon, Ingram Harrison and Jalian Smith all scoring in double digits, with Dixon leading the way with 18 points.
“Games like this are good where everybody gets to play,” Darlington boys head coach Ken Howle said after the game. “We needed to have some fun tonight. We’ve been on the road a good bit and had some tough losses.”
The lopsided victory did not look like it was going to be so lopsided when the game first started. Having already beat the Silver Foxes back at home earlier this season by a score of 84-15, the consensus thought was Darlington would dominate from beginning to end against a Lamar squad that is still depleted due to football still going on.
Somewhere between that “consensus thought” and reality, the Silver Foxes never got the memo and shocked everybody in the opening period going shot for shot with the Falcons, down only three, 22-19 as both teams headed to the second quarter.
“Our first quarter was kind of sluggish,” Howle said on the Falcons slow start to the game. “I don’t know if it was because who we were playing, knowing that they were shorthanded.”
After that first quarter, however, reality did set in and the fact that Darlington had twice the depth than Lamar began to show quickly as what was just a three-point lead after the first quarter became a 27-point Falcons lead at halftime.
In the third quarter Darlington began having some fun as Hickman had impressive dunks on back-to-back possessions.
“He needs to attack the basket more often,” Howle said about Hickman, who finished third on the team in scoring for the night with 15 points.
Smith and Harrison both added a nice dunk of their own in the fourth quarter.
Weekly Recap
Darlington avenged one of its losses this past Wednesday as the Falcons defeated the Marion Swamp Foxes 66-61 in overtime, improving their overall record to 4-4 on the season.
Having lost to Marion on the road back at the start of the season the Falcons repaid the favor despite nearly blowing the game with a dreadful fourth quarter performance that almost let the Swamp Foxes steal the game.
The Falcons now head into Christmas Break where it will compete first in the A&J Christmas Tournament in Marion and follow that up with Carolina Pepsi Classic at West Florence.