Okaloosa-Walton wins in first round action of FCCAA tourney
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DUSTIN KENT / Jackson County Floridan
Published: March 5, 2008
The Raiders, who advanced to play Broward in Friday's semifinal round, led for the final 35 minutes of the game and by as much as 15 in the second half.
Tay Waller added 13 points for the Raiders, while Josh Hunter scored 11 and Johnny Lett added 10.
Roderick Emanuel led Santa Fe with 17 points.
The Raiders jumped out to a 14-point lead in the first half after an 11-0 spurt, which included three steals and three dunks, a pair of thunderous two-handers from Lett, pushed the lead to 29-15 with 11:17 left in the first half.
The Saints kept contact with OW, however, getting a 3-point play by Emanuel to trim the deficit to seven points at halftime.
But OW came out scorching in the second half, getting a pair of 3-pointers from Waller and another triple from Ramsey to take a 50-36 lead.
A 9-0 run by the Saints midway through the second half brought them as close as they would get after halftime at 60-54 with 10:21 to play.
Hunter had the answer for OW with a 3-point play to push the advantage back to nine points and the Raiders would keep the lead at a safe distance the rest of the way.
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The Raiders' opponent Friday will be the Broward Seahawks, who defeated the Polk Vikings in the first game of the day.
The Seahawks staged a remarkable turnaround in the second half, then nearly gave it all away at the end before holding on to the 78-73 victory.
Broward trailed 35-25 in the opening minute of the second half, but responded by outscoring Polk 40-16 over the next 13 minutes to take a 65-51 lead with six minutes to play.
The Seahawks took their first lead of the second half on a putback by Miklos Szabo to make it 44-42 with 13:56 to play.
Devon Peterson made three 3-pointers over a five-minute stretch to extend the lead to 14 points.
Broward maintained an 11-point lead with 1:36 to play before Polk stormed back to nearly steal the game.
Destin Damachoua scored and drew a foul to cut the deficit to nine.
After missing the free throw, the Vikings got the rebound and kicked it back out to Damachoua, who drained a 3-pointer to make it 76-70 with 1:22 to play.
Polk got a steal on the other end, then raced back down court to get a dunk by Quincy Hankins with 59.8 seconds left, making it 76-72.
The Vikings got another stop on the next possession, then got to the foul line for two shots with 34.6 seconds left.
But Tyron Johnson missed a pair of free throws that could've made it a two-point game.
Szabo gave the Vikings life again with two missed free throws with 32.4 seconds left.
Hankins got to the foul line with 11.4 seconds left, but only made 1-of-2 at the line before Szabo knocked down a pair of free throws at the other end to seal the win.
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