Flight Falls Friday Night at Mobile 79-75
January 24, 2003 - NBA G League (G League)
Huntsville Flight News Release
MOBILE, Ala (Jan. 24) Derek Hood scored a game-high 19 points and added 10 rebounds to pace the Mobile Revelers to a 79-65 NBDL victory over the Huntsville Flight here Friday night at the Mobile Civic Center.
The Flight (15-14) had a two-game winning streak snapped as they also dropped their second straight to the Revelers. Mobile (14-12) won for the sixth time in seven games during its current homestand.
Down 38-33 at intermission, A.J. Guyton scored the Flights first nine points of the second half including a 3-pointer to end the spurt and give Huntsville its first lead since early in the second quarter at 42-41. Guyton hit another trey later in the period as he finished with 12 of his team-high 18 points in the quarter to give the Flight its final advantage at 48-47.
The Revelers then scored nine of the final 11 points of the quarter to take a 56-50 lead into the final 10 minutes.
Huntsville was able to cut the gap to four early in the final stanza, but Mobile score 10 straight midway through the period as Earnest Brown scored six of his 13 points during that stretch to put the game out of reach.
Along with Guyton in double-figure scoring was Bakari Hendrix with 15 points and Jermaine Walker with 11 off the bench. Shea Seals contributed 10 points for the Revelers.
The Revelers shot 53.2 percent for the contest, sinking 33-of-62 attempts.
The Flight now has off until next Friday (Jan. 31) when they begin a string of seven of eight games at home beginning with North Charleston. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.
BOXSCORE LINK: http://www.nba.com/nbdl/games/20030124/HUNMOB/boxscore.html
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