Skyline stays undefeated

Dallas, Forester Fieldhouse - Dallas Woodrow Wilson (2-5) made a push midway through the third against visiting team Dallas Skyline (11-0), as they finally cut their deficit to under 10, 35-24, off back to back three pointers. Skyline answered with a 10-2 run to end the third (50-27) and went on to win 60-32.

Skyline's junior point guard Marcus Garrett finished with a game-high 18 points as he ran the Raiders offense and crashed the boards off his cuts. Garrett did what was expected of him from head coach Paul Graham.

"I'm an old-school guy, and I know that if you share the ball good things happen on the offensive side of the ball," said the 42-year veteran coach. "It helps to have players that understand and buy into what we are doing. Passing the ball around from guy to guy, sharing the ball makes for easy scores, but I also like how this team plays defense."

The Raiders rebounded the ball and tightened the "D", holding Woodrow to a season-low 32 points.

"We work on our defense every day, and that is winning us ball games. We forced them to take some threes, and we grabbed the long rebounds. And we talk about taking care of the ball, and rebounding on both ends because that's what it takes to win games."

The Skyline Raiders are sitting on an early perfect record of 11-0, and coach Graham has a simple philosophy.

"We take it one game at a time. I don't believe in losing a game to know how it feels because I want to win all of them."

Garrett starts the team's half-court motion offense and understands what coach Graham expects.

"Coach likes us to move the ball around and make at least five passes," said Garrett. "Coach makes a point to us, and that is if we shoot the ball too quickly, we have to play defense more often during the game."

Richard Turner added 15 for Skyline, and the team high for Woodrow Wilson was Shakshi Davis and his 8 points.

Skyline lead 28-12 at the half.