Lady Pioneers skin Cats at Classic
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Brittany Frazier led the way with a game-high 18 points, including four 3-pointers. Two of those shots from behind the arc came in the first four minutes of the game, as WCHS (4-5) opened up an early 10-2 lead.
The Lady Bobcats found their offensive rhythm late in the period, however, getting a pair of buckets from Jessie Russell and another from sophomore Sara Fowler to trim the Lady Pioneer lead to 12-9 by the quarter’s end.
A six-point run early in the second helped the Lady Pioneers’ advantage grow to near double-digits (18-10), but turnovers late in the frame allowed Greenbrier to once again make things close, and Lauren Stubblefield scored at the halftime buzzer to send the squads into the break with Warren County clinging to a 21-18 lead.
The Lady Pioneers took advantage of some turnovers themselves in the third period, out-scoring their foes 9-4 over the opening minutes of the quarter, only to see the Lady Bobcats pull within three with a pair of Kasey Kyle free throws with 3:51 to play.
Lauren Patterson answered with a jumper in the lane, however, and Heather Frazier added a three-point play and a pair of free throws before Brittany Frazier knocked down another 3-pointer to put WCHS on top 40-29.
Four unanswered points from Casey Bradshaw, who led Greenbrier with 11, closed the quarter with the Lady Pioneers on top 40-33. But momentum was still firmly on the Warren County side, as they posted seven unanswered to open up a 14-point lead early in the fourth, and held off the Lady Bobcats by hitting nine of 12 free-throw attempts down the stretch.
Greenbrier got two 3-pointers from Fowler and another from Bradshaw in the game’s final five minutes, but it was too little and too late as WCHS held on for the victory” its first since it played host to the Dr Pepper Thanksgiving Classic.
In addition to Brittany Frazier’s 18, the Lady Pioneers got 13 from Heather Frazier and 11 points from Elizabeth Lavoie. Amanda Locke added nine, Patterson had six and Brooke Bowman scored two.
Bradshaw’s 11 led Greenbrier, which got 10 from Kyle and eight from Fowler. Stubblefield had seven points, Russell scored six and Whitney Morris had two.
The Lady Pioneers were scheduled to take on Station Camp on Tuesday evening.