Novinger Tournament Wednesday December 2, 2009

The Milan girls and Scotland County boys advance to Saturday's championship games.

The Brashear Lady Tigers and the Novinger Lady Wildcats met Wednesday in the consolation semi-final game. Novinger started the game with a 5-0 run, but Brashear battled back briefly taking a 10-8 lead before Novinger retook a 12-11 lead at the end of one quarter of play. Novinger's 7-0 run to start the 2nd quarter proved to be Brashear's undoing as the Lady Wildcat press and strong rebounding allowed Novinger to take a 27-15 lead at halftime. Novinger continued to dominate in the 3rd quarter extending their lead to 44-19. Brashear recovered somewhat in the 4th matching Novinger point for point giving Novinger the victory by a score of 54-29. Stephanie Elsea was the top scorer for Brashear with 9 points, Shelby Salter, Katie Smith, Olivia Thompson, and Sydney Slavin had 4 points each, and Chandi March and Ashley Watson scored 2 points each. For Novinger, Chloe Hubbard scored 10 points, Kelsey Potter and Becca White had 8 each, Trisha Potter had 7 points, Ariel Rader scored 6 points, Callie Farrell and Samantha Daniels scored 4 points each, Renatta Blackorby had 3, and Rachel Frost and Mallory Singleton scored 2 points each.

The girls' championship semi-final saw Milan topple Bevier 67-33. On the boys' side, Scotland County advanced to the championship game with a 62-40 victory over Green City and Bevier went into overtime to defeat Milan 50-44 to advance to the consolation game.