Flight Falls Friday Night at Mobile 81-74
January 17, 2003 - NBA G League (G League)
Huntsville Flight News Release
MOBILE, Ala. (Jan. 17) The Huntsville Flight began the second portion of its 2002-03 NBDL season just like it ended the first half -- with a loss -- dropping a 81-74 decision to the Mobile Revelers Friday night at the Mobile Civic Center.
The Flight (13-13) lost their fourth straight and sixth contest in their last seven games, despite 16 points from Lonnie Harrell and 14 from A.J. Guyton. Mobile (12-12) got a game-high 18 points from Isaac Fontaine, while Shea Seals collected seven of his 17 points in the final quarter and Ernest Brown tallied 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Huntsville jumped out to an early advantage and led by as many as 10 points at 19-9 before taking a 23-17 margin at the end of the first period. The Revelers, though, used a 10-0 run late in the second period to go up 38-36 at the intermission.
The game saw four lead changes late in the third quarter as Guyton hit a pair of 3-pointers during that stretch to give the visitors its only leads of the second half. The Flight could not shake the Revelers as Cedric Henderson answered Guytons first basket with a 3-pointer of his own and Seals counteracted the second Guyton jumper by converting a three-point play to give Mobile the lead for good at 54-52 late in the third period.
For the game, the Flight committed 18 turnovers and made just 3-of-11 from behind the arc for 27.3 percent.
The Flight returns to action again Saturday night when they play host to North Charleston in a 6 p..m. contest at the Von Braun Center. The Lowgators, who are in the midst of a 10-game road swing, lost 88-86 at Columbus Friday night to fall to 13-12..
The game will be part of the "Hoop Hysteria" night at the VBC as Alabama A&M and Alabama State will play a mens and womens basketball doubleheader as well. The womens action starts at 3:30 p.m. with the mens game starting at approximately 8:30 p.m.
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