The Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jackets men's basketball team beat Southeast Halifax Trojans Friday night earning the 2016 Northampton County Holiday Classic Basketball Tournament Championship.
The Roanoke Rapids team beat Southeast Halifax 72-65.
Post game comments from Roanoke Rapids head coach Tyler Snyder, "Southeast is a good team. You go into a game with a plan and when a player starts out on fire, you scratch the plan and try to find a way to stop him. They were a tough team defensively and very athletic. It seemed at times we let them get us out of our comfort zone and play out of control. I'm very proud of how this team didn't give up and fought back."
Coach added, "With wining this Championship, I'm looking for us to build off of it and continue to play better basketball. We still make some mistakes and with conference play picking up next week we need to be firing on all cylinders."
Roanoke Rapids Stats:
Tyjarek Simmons scored 22 points
TJ Scott scored 9 points
Semaj Smith scored 3 points
Paul Whitby scored 7 points
Dre Terry scored 11 points
KJ Faulcon scored 2 points
Tyler Acree scored 2 points
Zach Vincent scored 16 points
Southeast Stats:
Triqual Clark scored 25 points
Rashon Norfleet scored 18 points
RoQuan Crowell scored 15 points
ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM
Roanoke Rapids Tyjarek Simmons
Southeast Rashaun Norfleet
Weldon Kevin Arrington
Greensville County Hunter Astroch
Northampton County JJ Miles
Tournament MVP Roanoke Rapids Tyjarek Simmons
Friday December 30th winners
3PM Weldon beat Northwest Halifax
5PM Greensville County beat KIPP High
7PM Northampton County beat Brunswick County
9PM Championship Roanoke Rapids beat Southeast Halifax