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Sports - January 2004 |
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Wolves look to bounce back |
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Published January 23, 2004 |
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By JOHN MARK BROOKS, Staff Writer ———————————— Lincolnton Wolves head coach Bob Cowie has a tough task when his team visits the Newton-Conover Red Devils tonight. Coming off a devastating 49-48 loss to East Rutherford Tuesday, Cowie will need his team to be mentally tough to overcome the lingering effects of that defeat. But Cowie believes that will not be a problem and expects his team to respond. “I think we’re going to be ready. We’re obviously disappointed. As a team I feel like we didn’t play our best basketball Tuesday night. We didn’t play as well as we can play,” Cowie said. The only bright side is that Cowie does not view Tuesday night as only a negative. “To lead by six the whole game and end up losing on a shot with eight seconds, you have to take some positives from that,” he said. The Wolves will have their hands full tonight with Red Devils’ star Julius Powell who’s posed problems for Lincolnton his whole career. “We’ve had trouble with him every game. He’s averaging 25 points a game. We’re going to try to mix it up on him, play some man, play some zone. He’s going to score points, but we just need to try to contain him,” Cowie said. “Other teams have been holding him some, so hopefully we can do the same thing,” Cowie adds. Lincolnton enters tonight’s Midwest 2A matchup 11-4 overall and 4-2 in the conference. However, with Newton at 5-2 in the conference Cowie believes that tonight’s contest will have huge implications on either team’s aspirations to win the conference crown. “I think the loser tonight can forget about conference championships, so it’s that important to us,” he said. The Wolves have divided the rest of their schedule into groups of four, mentally. Cowie and his team have a simple goal in their immediate future. “By next Friday, we somehow have to win four basketball games. Hopefully we can keep winning and some other teams can help us out along the way. What we’re looking for is by the time we go to East Rutherford we’ll be playing for a conference championship,” he said. For now, the coach has an even more simple goal for his team to “worry about winning game by game.”
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