Poor-shooting Gators fall to Magee, 61-52
Published 11:39 am Thursday, December 29, 2011
Kalen Jackson scored 17 points, Devonta McDonald added 15, and Magee (5-5) pulled away from Vicksburg in the fourth quarter to hand the Gators their second straight loss.
After Vicksburg (6-8) erased an early eight-point deficit, neither team led by more than four until the fourth quarter. Magee’s Kendrick Smith hit a tip-in with 4:20 to play and Brian Mills hit a shot in the lane 20 seconds later to give the Trojans a 54-46 lead. Vicksburg’s only points in the last four minutes came on 3-pointers by De’Angelo Richardson and Edward Davis.
Richardson finished with 12 points to lead the Gators, and Davis scored 11.
“We couldn’t make any shots,” Vicksburg coach Dellie C. Robinson said. “When you can’t make shots, you can’t win.”