Garfield puts pedal down on Franklin
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In a made-for-TV game spotlighting Seattle's biggest basketball rivalry, top-ranked Garfield showed it is more than ready for prime time by beating Franklin 100-51.
In front of a packed gym and a live-broadcast audience, the Bulldogs put on a show with six dunks and three quarters in which they scored 27 points or more.
In doing so, Garfield earned the honor of being the city's top Class 4A team ... at least for the next three days.
The teams play again Tuesday at Franklin in a KingCo 4A game.
For the first quarter, the audience saw an intense back-and-forth match in the first of four high-school games KONG-TV will broadcast this winter.
For the final three quarters, they watched a runaway train, as Garfield outscored Franklin 53-17 in the second and third and led by at least 30 points for the entire fourth.
Garfield (7-0 league, 13-1 overall) had three players with more than 20 points, led by Marcelus Kemp's 24. Brandon Roy scored 22, which included a pair of alley-oops that brought the crowd to its feet.
"I've had that many alley-oops before," Roy said. "This time it was on TV."
Kemp, Roy and Will Conroy combined to score 49 of Garfield's 53 points in the second and third quarters. Garfield outscored Franklin 18-4 in the first five minutes of the second quarter. The Quakers (6-1, 7-7) led by one after the first quarter, but turned the ball over seven times in the second and finished with just three field goals in the period.
"It just kind of happened," Garfield Coach Wayne Floyd said.
"Once we picked the intensity on defense and everyone started working together, it even surprised Franklin a little bit."
The Bulldogs led by 17 at halftime. The margin was 32 points with 3:12 remaining in the third quarter, and the only question left was whether the Bulldogs would reach 100.
"When you allow them to play with their energy and their flow, they can become unstoppable," Franklin Coach Jason Kerr said. "I felt they were more aggressive than we were, more competent and more together."
The Quakers were playing their fourth game in six days and faded after a first quarter in which Franklin stayed basket-for-basket with Garfield.
Neither team led by more than three points in the first quarter.
The score was tied four times in the first period and there were five lead changes.
FRANKLIN (51) -- Zenrique Tellez 4, Daniel Jackson 10, Brandon Bergstrom, A.J. Diers 2, Anthony Grant 7, Jonathan Crudup 2, Aaron Brooks 11, Aaron White 9, Michael Hendricks, Skip Riley 3, Garrett Bell 3.
GARFIELD (100) -- Will Conroy 22, Marques Echols 2, Brandon Roy 22, Scott Miller 3, Alex Hatzey 3, Marcelus Kemp 24, Isaiah Stanback 4, Bryan Davis 9, Anthony Washington 6, Jamaal Miller 3, Forest Woodley 2, Cole Allen 1.
Franklin 19 8 9 15 - 51
Garfield 18 26 27 29 - 100