CTC Women’s Hoops Beat East Georgia, Men Fade Late

The basketball squads hosted East Georgia College in a pair of GCAA match-ups at the Smyrna Community Center on Tuesday night. The CTC women started the night off on a positive note with a 58-47 come-from-behind victory, but the men suffered their second straight narrow conference loss, 71-67.

The Lady Golden Eagles (6-2, 1-2 GCAA) executed a 13-0 run in the final minutes to help seal the victory over East Georgia (8-3, 0-2).

Tiayra Green poured in 18 points, 13 in the second half, to lead the team. Tasia Holdorf was the team’s other double-digit scorer with 16 points. Tyresha Williams scored nine, and Tequilla Vaughns had seven.

The CTC women started slowly in the first half, trailing 26-19 at the break, but team defense and the scoring of Green and Holdorf allowed the Lady Golden Eagles to retake the lead for good with just over four minutes to play.

A Green jumper tied the game at 45-45, then her free throw on the next possession gave CTC a one-point advantage.

Coming off a 64-60 road defeat at South Georgia Tech last week, the men’s team again found itself in a tight one down the stretch. The Golden Eagles (7-3, 1-2) led 28-23 at the half on the strength of eight points, 10 rebounds and four blocks in the first half by Auburn signee Asauhn Dixon-Tatum, who finished with 16, 15 and four. A Bobcats (6-2, 1-1) run to open the second half quickly gave East Georgia a slim lead it would not relinquish.

A Brannon Hopkins 3-pointer with 9.1 seconds remaining cut the East Georgia lead to 69-66, but the Bobcats sealed it with two subsequent free throws on the other end.

Hopkins and fellow guard Sean Tate also scored 16 points apiece for the Golden Eagles.

The women's team will travel to Chattanooga State for a non-GCAA contest Wednesday, and both teams will be in action Friday at conference foe Albany Tech.