Unbeaten Dragon Medics take basketball title Published Feb. 16, 2011 By Sam Miller Intramural sports director KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- The No. 1 seed 81st Medical Group posted a 67-62 victory over the 338th Training Squadron Dark Knights to claim the 2010-11 intramural basketball championship Feb. 9 at Blake Fitness Center. Kwamina Boyd scored a game-high 22 points and nailed three big three-pointers in the fourth quarter to lead the Dragon Medics. With the win, the Dragon Medics finished the season with a perfect 14-0 record, while the Dark Knights finished at 10-4. The Dragon Medics came into the championship game as division champs and a 10-0 regular season record. The Dark Knights came into the contest with a 7-3 regular season record and a 9.6 point average margin of victory in their conference playoffs. The 81st MDG was down late in the second half, but an untimely technical foul on the Dark Knight Adrian Ross and two missed free throws as time winded down gave the Dragon Medics an opportunity to tie with 2.8 seconds left in the final half of play. Medic Alvin Holmes launched an 85-foot pass down the court to heavily-guarded Daryl Jones who heaved up a desperate three-point shot that sent the game into overtime. The Dragon Medics clamped down defensively in the extra period, holding the Dark Knights scoreless in overtime. Kwamina Boyd scored four points in the period, but it was the two crucial free throws with less than 30 seconds left that would seal the victory for the Dragon Medics. A free throw by Dragon Medic Jonathan Settles was the only other scoring in overtime as the Dark Knights failed to convert on two shot attempts as time expired. The early stages of the first half were polar opposites of the second half as both teams started the games with several turnovers and failed shot attempts. The game heated up with less than eight minutes remaining in the first half. The Dragon Medics found most of their scoring with the inside presence of team captain Alvin Holmes, a starter for Keesler's varsity basketball team. Holmes led he 81st MDG in scoring with eight points at the half. The Dark Knights' Pierre Rodriguez was able to give his team a twopoint halftime lead with very solid three-point shooting. Rodriguez led all scorers at the half with nine points. The Dark Knights would keep the lead most of the second half with the a stellar offensive output by Courtney Brantley who totaled 12 points with less than nine minutes left in the second half of play. The offensive assault by Kwamina Boyd in the same period kept the game within reach as it came down to the wire. Holmes said he was confident that his team could win the base championship, and the two-point win against the Naval Construction Battalion Center in the quarter finals gave them the experience they needed to pull out a close game.