By Ed Bailey
Thanks to missed opportunities at the free-throw line and an untimely foul-out, the Dadeville Tigers boys basketball team lost a 63-59 heartbreaker to the Bulldogs of LaFayette High School to finish second in its after-Christmas tournament.
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