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Monasses will no doubt close the door on Temple early. Temple does not have any other players to help Sexton. They have no real presence inside and that will be the biggest difference in this game. This Temple team is nothing like the one they had a couple of years ago with Sexton, Skogen, Newson and Smith. Buckner will probably dominate Montgomery and Johnson under the basket. In order for Temple to win Johnson has to be more physical under the basket, box out, rebound and score. This is the championship game. No time to relax, play with intensity and a lot of heart. Brandon Andrews and Kemp also need to step up their game in order to win the gold ball. Free throws will also be a crucial thing in this game. Temple needs to make their foul shots if they want to get the W. As far as for the Mr. Basketball Award. It will probably go the a West Tennessee player again. Just like Skogen got the shaft a couple of years ago -- Sexton will too. These thoughts are just my personal opinions and in no way am I intentionally trying to belittle anyone. My hope is that this game will be a good game and injury free. Good luck to both teams and congrats to both to making it to the championship game.

What does your post have to do with the Temple vs. Summertown game? Temple was very fortunate they did not lose this game. Summertown showed a lot of heart in the end and deserves a lot of credit for playing a tough game against Temple. If Temple plays they way they did Wednesday and today they will not beat Monasses.

The team that has the most points at the end of the game will win this one.

Temple 62 Cloudland 50 2:15 to go

And -- isn't Grace Academy ranked 7th in State?

This is not Grace's first appearance at State. They were in the final game in 2006 and lost against Union City. They were also in State Final Game in 2004 and lost against Unaka.

Temple 48 Cloudland 31 End of 3rd

Sexton will probably take over in the second half. Temple should win this one by at least 15 or more.

That's what the West Tennessee teams said a couple of years ago about Temple's chances of winning and it ended up being two teams from Chattanooga in the finals. Where were Monasses and Hummbolt then?

HA -- I can't believe Hummbolt let Monasses beat them!! Wuz up with that?

Monassas don't have a chance against my boys from Grace!! GO EAGLES!!

Now -- why in the world would he want to do that?

who really cares?

you temple people are a joke

I'm not fully convinced that the west is better than the east. On any given night, I think that a team like Maryville could beat Liberty. We've already established that in class 1A that the west is not better than the east. I think there is a little bit different style of basketball played throughout the state, but that's part of the game. Either you run and gun (and don't play defense), or you play a controlled offense (with good defense). I think that makes the difference between having a game where a team scores 100 points and others where you only score 50.

that would be pretty kuhl to have two chattanooga teams in the championship

I would add that Dee is a better player than he plays. He needs to shoot more to open up the inside. I would agree that Jeremy needs to drive to the basket more and learn to dish off to Smith or Skogen. Smith is a beast inside (believe me, I've played against him more than once). He makes it very difficult to get position down low. He uses his body very well on defense. On offense, if his team got him the ball more down low he would score a lot more than he does. I've already given my thinking on Seth. He is looking to shoot the ball most of the time and doesn't pass that much. If he is on he can hurt the opposition fast.

I would agree.

Man I can't believe howard let this one slip away. I was hopin that the Tigers would be in the championship game on sat.

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I'm going with CSAS. That seem to be peaking at the right time. Make Chattanooga proud Patriots!

you know it! /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Don't forget about Carter McMasters. This guy can take it to the hole.

I'm not too sure I would say no way. Temple has its struggles at times and can let a game get away from them.

Skogan is really not that great of a player. He just shoots the ball a lot and has pretty good size and strength. I've observed the last couple of years that if he doesn't play well Temple suffers all around. If Temple can execute on offense, hit the boards and play good defense and stay out of foul trouble they can stay with Humboldt. If not it will not be pretty.