North Shelby Tournament Wednesday January 21, 2009
Scotland County girls and boys, LaPlata girls, and Knox County boys winners.
In the girls' consolation semi-finals game, Brashear scored the first 2 points of the game, but LaPlata scored the next 11. The Lady Bulldogs held a 13-4 lead after the 1st quarter of play and led 26-11 at the half. Brashear fell further behind after the half and trailed 40-21 after 3 quarters, but mounted a late rally to close the lead to single digits. LaPlata held off the late charge and advanced to the consolation game with the 53-43 win. For Brashear, Macy Rogers scored 13 points, Shelby Rogers had 9, Emily Ladwig added 7, Stephanie Elsea, Caroline Slavin, and Sydney Slavin had 4 points each, and Abby McKim scored 2 points. Laura Tuggle paced LaPlata with 24 points, Gara Curtis and Rachel Shahan had 9 points each, Emily Snodgrass had 5, Brittaney Bingham scored 3, Jeana Bane had 2, and Emily Heissler scored 1 point.
In the boys' championship semi-final game, Knox County put up a quick 5-0 lead and Brashear found themselves playing catchup the rest of the game. Knox County held a 19-15 lead after one quarter and led 31-24 at halftime. Sloppy ball handling by the Tigers in the 3rd quarter allowed Knox County to increase their lead to 55-40 on a series of fast break layups. Brashear's 4th quarter rally was foiled at the free throw line as the Eagles were held to 2 baskets, but scored 14 points from the charity stripe to hold on for a 73-65 win. Knox converted 21 of 27 attempts from the free throw line on the night while Brashear were 7 for 10. Brashear's Trae Treasure led all scorers with 28 points, Kiley Watson had 18, Ryan Ferdig had 14, Matt Thomas had 3, and Justin Hazen scored 2 points. For Knox County, Mitchel Penn had 21 points, Keenan Gillaspy had 14, Dennis Dent chipped in 13, Justin Reeves had 8, Lucas Hudson had 7, Brett Bryant had 6, and Brett Wilkerson scored 4 points.
In other action, the Scotland County Lady Tigers edged Knox County 38-37 to advance to the championship game and the Scotland County boys downed Marion County 58-40 in the boys' consolation semi-final game.