7A/6A-CENTRAL BOYS

Parkview starts slow, then rolls

Little Rock Hall took the air out of the ball for one quarter. Little Rock Parkview took the steam out of the Warriors for the final three.

Junior Jaylen Franklin scored 16 points and grabbed six rebounds and Daryl Macon added 14 points and handed out three assists as the top-ranked Patriots cruised to a 53-33 victory over the Warriors in a 7A/6A-Central game at Ripley Arena.

The Patriots (23-1, 13-0) out rebounded the Warriors 29-13 and held the visitors to 10 of 31 from the floor to win their 15th consecutive game.

“I’m very pleased with that defensive effort,” Parkview Coach Al Flanigan said. “We were real aggressive in the second half. In the first half, we had to adjust to that stall game they were running. Once we adjusted … we did fine.”

Hall (17-7, 9-4) led 7-6 after one quarter and the two teams traded leads three times in the second quarter before Parkview took over.

Hall’s Robert Verges tied the game at 15-15 with a three-pointer with 3:42 left before halftime, but it was the last field goal the Warriors could muster until the :03 mark of the third quarter, a span of nearly 12 minutes with only four free throws.

The Patriots, sparked by Braelon Walker’s jumper and two free throws, outscored the Warriors 18-0 over a 7:44 stretch spanning the second and third quarters to take a 33-15 lead with 3:56 to play in the third quarter.

Parkview, which led 42-21 after three quarters, is 3-0 against Hall this season.

“We weren’t actually trying to stall,” said Hall Coach Jon Coleman, whose team lost by a combined 15 points in the two earlier losses. “We were just trying to spread them out a little bit and we were also trying to control the tempo. I thought the first two times we played them, we played too fast.”

Parkview seemed comfortable at any speed on Tuesday. The Patriots hit 19 of 29 shots from the floor and were 14 of 21 from the free-throw line. Freshman Javon Franklin led his team with 10 rebounds and three blocked shots.

Junior guard Eric Dailey led the Warriors in scoring with nine points while senior guard Anthony Black added seven. No Hall player had more than three rebounds.

Parkview finishes the regular season Friday at Fort Smith Southside. Hall will play its final home game on Friday against Fort Smith Northside.

Sports, Pages 23 on 02/26/2014

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