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© St. Petersburg Times, published February 27, 2002
WINTER PARK -- Durant's Kerry Guy hit a 3-pointer with 4 minutes, 38 seconds remaining in the third quarter Tuesday night to cut Lake Howell's lead to six points.
Unfortunately for the Cougars, it took them 10:29 to score another basket as Lake Howell ran away with a 61-29 victory.
After Guy's 3-pointer sliced the Cougars' deficit to 31-25, the teams traded baskets. Then, Lake Howell's David Edwards scored the Silver Hawks' next seven points to push their lead to 40-27 with 30 seconds to play in the third quarter.
Edwards' streak was just the start as the Silver Hawks (19-15) crushed Durant with a 20-0 run that was finally ended when Phil Alvarez scored with 2:09 left in the game and Durant (25-6) trailing 53-29.
"We normally average 73 points," Durant coach Gary Jordan said. "What we did today was not up to par. We weren't an offensive team."
Both offenses sputtered early.
The score was deadlocked at seven at the end of the first quarter as the teams combined for nine turnovers.
Lake Howell's Mac Walker opened the scoring with a layup, but it took nearly 31/2 minutes for that to happen.
"I expected it to be low scoring," Lake Howell coach Steve Kohn said. "I think it was a lot of nervousness. (Durant) just shot poorly. They couldn't hit anything."
Lake Howell opened the second quarter with an 8-0 run, but Durant closed to within three at 17-14. However, the Silver Hawks scored the next six on a 3-point play by Sean Barkman and a 3-pointer by Joey Forestier, pushing the lead to nine.
The Cougars were within four at the half, but could muster only eight points in the third quarter.
R.L. Bond, Durant's leading scorer at over 19 points per game, had eight in the first half but scored only a single point in the second half.
Bond had his chances at the line in the third but made 1 of 6, while the Silver Hawks converted on 11 of 14 attempts. "I couldn't make anything," Bond said. "We shot for nothing. Nothing was clicking on offense."
The Silver Hawks displayed a balanced attack as Jared Laskey, Isaac Codrey and Forestier all tied for the team lead with 10 points.