Heartbreaker: Caissons fall to undefeated Hargrave in OT, 122-119
It was the best basketball game in the best basketball environment that the couple hundred people on hand might ever see.
And in the end, the Caissons came thisclose to pulling the major upset.
Wake Forest signee Codi Miller-McIntyre hit a three with 13.5 seconds left to send the game to overtime, a John Burke three with 23.9 seconds left broke a 117-all tie, and Hargrave Military Academy held on for a 122-119 win over Fishburne Thursday night. Read more
FMS tops Fork Union, finishes Military Challenge 2-0
Fishburne broke open a close game with a 12-2 run to end the first half and held off a pesky Fork Union squad 85-74 in the final game of the Virginia Military Postgrad Basketball Challenge Saturday night.
Earlier on Saturday, St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy knocked off Massanutten Military Academy by a 76-67 final.
St. John’s and Massanutten both finished 1-1 in the Challenge. Fork Union, which fell 84-79 to MMA on Friday night, finished 0-2, and the homestanding FMS team went 2-0 with the win on Saturday and a 97-86 win over St. John’s on Friday. Read more
Fishburne, MMA get wins on Day 1 of Military Challenge
St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy jumped out to an early seven-point lead over Fishburne Military School and led 46-45 at the half.
The difference in the second half of the Caissons’ 97-86 victory in the opener of the Virginia Military Postgrad Basketball Challenge: defense.
“We just made more plays defensively than they did down the stretch,” said FMS postgrad coach Ed Huckaby.
A pair of early second-half threes by Devin Call gave Fishburne its first working margin of the night at 58-52 with 14:14 to go.
Another three, this one from Jackson Trapp (a Winthrop signee), made it 77-67 with 5:27 to go, and St. John’s would get no closer than nine the rest of the way. Read more
Fishburne hosts D1 talent in Military Classic
Arguably the best basketball that will be played in the state of Virginia this weekend will be played in Waynesboro on grounds at Fishburne Military School.
“We want the whole community here. This is going to be high-level basketball. You’re going to be seeing guys that are going to be playing major-college ball. Every player on the floor will be a Division I-level player. How often do you get to see that in a place like Waynesboro?” said Ed Huckaby, the coach of the postgraduate basketball team at Fishburne, which is hosting the four-team FMS Military Challenge on Friday and Saturday.
The competition – FMS, Fork Union, Massanutten and St. John’s Northwestern – promises to be stiff. The rosters of the four are lined with recruits headed to the ACC, Big East, Conference USA and all manner of mid-majors. Read more
FMS PGs clamp down on Richard Bland, 101-46
The number 82 was stuck in the minds of the players on the Fishburne Military School postgrad basketball team all day Monday.
“I left that number up on the scoreboard,” said Caissons coach Ed Huckaby, whose team won 120-82 over Stillwater Prep on Sunday.
Huckaby “didn’t like the 82 points that we gave up,” and let his players know that a repeat performance was not in the offing Monday night with Richard Bland Community College coming to town.
FMS gave the defensive effort that Huckaby wanted in the final 20 minutes of a 101-46 victory. Read more
FMS hoops coach on WKAV
Fishburne Military School postgrad basketball coach Ed Huckaby joins
WKAV-1400′s “The Mac McDonald Show” to talk about the signing by UVa.
of FMS point guard Teven Jones.
FMS PGs win in first game without UVa. recruit
After a 30-day holiday layoff, Fishburne Military School’s postgraduate basketball team returned to action on Wednesday night at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista and returned to Waynesboro with a 21-point win over the Knights JV squad.
The Caissons accomplished the 84-63 victory without the help of starting point guard and team captain Teven Jones. The North Carolina native will be enrolling into the University of Virginia for the spring semester to help out the 16th-ranked Cavaliers, who are down to nine scholarship players. Read more
