Posted by Chris Myers - Sat, Jan 26, 2008 - [Men's Basketball] - Viewed 207 times
Jarred Soles became the sixth UVa-Wise men’s basketball player to reach 1,500 career points Saturday. After three back surgeries, the senior stands sixth in career scoring with 1,508 points and should move into fifth past Mario Walker (1992-96), who had 1,584 points, in the coming weeks.
Jarred Soles became the sixth UVa-Wise men’s basketball player to reach 1,500 career points Saturday but Bryan College spoiled his enjoyment by edging out the win 61-59 in Appalachian Athletic Conference action.
Soles, a senior from Yorktown, Va. needed 10 points heading into the game and posted 12 tallies in the first half before finishing the night for the Highland Cavaliers (9-13/5-6 AAC) with 18. After three back surgeries, the senior stands sixth in career scoring with 1,508 points and should move into fifth past Mario Walker (1992-96), who had 1,584 points, in the coming weeks. Jarred entered the 2007-08 season with 1,196 points and has 302 tallies this season with a team-leading 14.2 ppg average.
Adam Hood (Rye Cove, Va.) was the home team’s lone other double digit performer with 16 points including four treys.
Bryan (9-12/3-7 AAC) won the rebound battle, 35-29, and held UVa-Wise to just 38.5% from the field in the deciding second half, 10-percent less than the 48.0% in the first half. Lamarr Shorts led all scorers with 21 points and Damond Craig hit for 12 points.
Trailing 31-30, the Lions roared out of the intermission to outscore the Cavs 21-9 in the first 10 minutes to take an 11-point lead, 51-40, which they wouldn’t relinquish. The Cavs came back to pull to within one two times in the last three minutes with the final coming at 57-56 on a Hood triple with 2:20 left. Shorts made three of six free throws in the final 1:20 and UVa-Wise could not do enough to regain the lead to fall 61-59.
The Cavs led by as many as nine points, 20-11, in the opening half on a Soles jumper before the Lions chipped away the rest of the half to trail by one at the half.
