NEWS JOURNAL — FEBRUARY 15, 2012 — C-3

THE FACTS...

Redhounds aren’t overlooking WilliamsburgBoys Tournament Game 1 — Feb. 21, 8:15 p.m.

Corbin vs. Williamsburg

MAYORWillard McBurney

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CITY COMMISSIONERSJoe Shelton Ed Tye

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City of Corbin805 South Main St.,

Corbin, KY 606.528.0669

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CorbinBoard of

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1510 South Main Street, Corbin, Kentucky

Established1966

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Corbin Redhounds33 Travis Smith Sr24 Kyle West Sr14 Victor Berezutchi Sr 1 Eric Jones Sr42 Kory Morris Jr44 Robbie Igo Jr11 Hunter Grubb Jr22 Zach Farley Jr15 Kaleb Maguet Jr23 Joey Shelton So25 Zach Henson So10 Donnie Wilson So 4 Kevin Goins So32 Taylor Waddle So 3 Tucker Jones So21 Andrew Johnson So20 Trevor Hill 8th

Head Coach: Tony Pietrowski

2012 ResultsKnoxville Catholic 68-41 Wat Clay Co. 58-61 Lat Lynn Camp 64-48 WJellico, Tn 53-53 Wat South Laurel 67-64* WCarter, Tn 77-58 W

Cumberland Falls InvitationalBlue Ridge, SC 64-45 WEvangel Christian 48-52 LLee, Al. 63-74 L

Knoxville Catholic InvitationalKnoxville West 48-75 LLoudon, Tn 59-48 WKnoxville Catholic 46-62 L

Williamsburg 49-55 Lat Middlesboro 79-51 Wat Whitley Co. 68-51 Wat North Laurel 54-61 LKnox Central 50-58 LSouth Laurel 58-51 WBell Co. 46-42 WPineville 68-54 Wat Williamsburg 59-52 WWhitley Co. 66-54 WNorth Laurel 52-50 Wat McCreary Cent. 50-46 WHarlan Co. 64-71 LFeb. 17 HarlanFeb. 20 Williamsburg

Williamsburg Yellow Jackets20 Jared Barton Sr14 Hunter Williams Sr44 Cameron Smoak Sr 1 Donnie Bowlin Sr11 Chris Odell Sr25 Micah Purdie Jr13 Ryan Bowlin So34 Tyler White So 2 Addison Anderson So15 Dalton Sizemore So12 Corey Shelton Fr 5 Skylar Griffith Fr 3 Eric Poore Fr 4 Michael Rose Fr33 Garrett Faulkner Fr32 Chase Lowrie Fr

Head Coach: Patrick Robinson

2012 ResultsJackson Co. 54-56 LKnoxville Catholic 49-57 LPineville 74-46 Wat Clay Co. 49-88 LLloyd Memorial 47-62 LBarbourville 61-77 LWhitley Co. 56-57 L

Cumberland Falls InvitationalLee, Al. 36-61 LPontotac, Ms 66-56 WJackson Co. 60-52 W

Williamsburg InvitationalGarrard Co. 59-55 WScott, Tn 55-53 WUpperman, Tn 44-54 LKnox Central 38-60 L

at Corbin 55-49 Wat Lynn Camp 66-39 WSouth Laurel 76-73* Wat Jackson Co. 61-56 WLynn Camp 58-38 WHarlan 75-73 WBarbourville 50-60 Lat Whitley Co. 52-58 Lat South Laurel 46-49 LCorbin 52-59 LLynn Camp 57-45 WEstill Co. 55-51 WBerea 43-33 Wat Middlesboro 454-68 LFeb. 14 Owsley Co.Feb. 15 at Pineville

Team: CorbinRecord: 16-10Mascot: RedhoundsCoach: Tony Pietrowski50th District Titles: 39Last Title: 201113th Region Titles: 13Last Title: 2010Season High: 79 vs. MiddlesboroSeason Low: 46 vs. Bell Co.Offensive Avg: 58.9Defensive Avg. 54.3District Record: 5-1Region Record: 10-4Home Court: 9-4Road Record: 6-3Neutral Court: 1-1

Team: WilliamsburgRecord: 14-14Mascot: Yellow JacketsCoach: Patrick Robinson50th District Titles: 5Last Title: 199813th Region Titles: 3Last Title: 1946Season High: 76 vs. S. LaurelSeason Low: 36 vs. Lee, Al.Offensive Avg: 55.4Defensive Avg. 56.1District Record: 2-4Region Record: 9-9Home Court: 8-9Road Record: 3-3Neutral Court: 3-1

By Jim [email protected]

The Corbin Redhounds have put themselves in a posi-tion to win their fourth 50th District Title in a row after taking the number one seed in next week’s tournament.

Coach Tony Pietrowski’s team earned the number one seed by winning five of their six district games. Their only loss came at the hands of the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets 55-49 back on Jan. 6. The Redhounds were without leading scorer Travis Smith in that game.

Pietrowski is concerned about the Yellow Jackets and will not be over-looking Williamsburg.

“For us being a number one seed, it is a difficult match-up,” said the veteran coach.

“I think Williamsburg has shown the ability to play with anyone in our district. So, we know we have got our hands full. They have played us well both times that we

have played them.”“We are going to have to

key in and play well to be able to advance to the region-al tournament,” Pietrowski said.

Corbin is currently 16-10 and have been led by Smith, juniors Zach Farley, Robbie Igo, Hunter Grubb and Kaleb Maguet from a scoring stand-point along with exchange strudent Victor Berezutchi.

The first time the two teams met at Corbin the Yellow Jackets came out with the victory.

That was a big win for Williamsburg and Coach Patrick Robinson.

Robinson knows his team can play with the Redhounds and must be ready for Monday’s game.

“We need to be 100 percernt focused on exactly what we are trying to do,” Robinson

said. “Stick to the game plan and play as one cohesive unit for four quarters.”

What concerns Robinson most about the Redhounds?

“The biggest concern I have going into the game is making sure we do a nice job defensively. I want our guys to play super hard and exe-cute on offense,” he added.

“Travis Smith really hurt us the last game so hopefully we can defend him much better.”

“We play really hard and focus a lot on guarding peo-ple as tough as we can,” he said.

Williamsburg had com-piled a 14-14 record going into their final two games

Photo By JIM McALISTERCORBIN’S Victor Berezutchi dribbles down court against the pressue of Harlan County’s James Bond in Monday night’s loss to the Black Bears.

of the regular season against Owsley County and Pineville. Wins over both of those teams would give the Yellow Jackets a winning season, the first for Robinson.

Williamsburg put together an impressive run early in January when they won six straight games before los-ing to Barbourville 60-50 in the championship game of the 13th Region All “A” Tournament.

The Yellow Jackets have been led by seniors Jared Barton (12.4) and Cameron Smoak (8.8). Sophomore Dalton Sizemore and fresh-men Skyler Griffith, Corey Shelton, Chase Lowrie and 8th grader Andrew Griffth have played key roles in the Jackets’ success.