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By Mike Duprez
The Dispatch
November 1, 2009
The beginning was OK, and so was the end. And that more than made up for what happened in the middle.
Rico Geter led five players in double figures with 19 points as Davidson County Community College opened its season by outlasting Wytheville Community College 90-82 on Sunday at Brinkley Gym.
“I liked the way we started, and I liked the way we finished,” said DCCC coach Matt Ridge. “The rest was mostly my fault. This was a good test for us. We had some guys step up down the stretch.”
Zack Williams scored 17 points for the Storm while Justin Glover had 15, Phillip Williams 13 and A.J. Finney 10.
The Storm jumped to an early 24-12 lead but then hit a long cold spell that resulted in them trailing 34-30 at halftime.
That set up a closely contested second half in which there were 16 lead changes, with neither team getting much separation.
Kevin Cousin of Wytheville was next to unstoppable, pouring in a game-high 26 points while hitting 10 of 13 field goal attempts and four of five 3-pointers. His last one from behind the arc knotted the game at 74-74 with 4:32 left and set up the big finish.
“He’s a good one,” Ridge said. “Offensively, they’re a handful.”
DCCC took the lead for good on Glover’s fast-break layup just nine seconds after the Cousins 3-pointer.
But the adventure wasn’t quite over. Phillip Williams fouled out with 3:33 left, but the Storm kept the lead at 76-75 when Deonta Knox, who had 16 points, made only one of the two free throws.
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