Local team reaches state

The 16-under girls AAU basketball team has been very busy over the past several weeks. The team from Warren County traveled to Panama City Florida, Memorial Day weekend placing second in a YBOA tournament. The AAU Lady Pioneers won the North Middle Substate Division II in Cheatham County last weekend to earn a berth in the state tournament this weekend held in Memphis.

In the first game of the Substate, Warren County beat Tennessee Attack out of Nashville 75-65.

Whitney Pelham hit for 25 points, Amanda Locke and Alysa Lankford had 16 points each. Leah Cunningham had eight, Kara Youngblood seven and Sallie Slatton hit for three points.

Warren County defeated Team Tennessee out of Wilson County 67-58. Cunningham had 17 points, Pelham had 14, Lankford had 12, Locke 10, Youngblood hit for eight, Nikki Griffith and Rhea had three points each.

In the championship game Warren County slipped by the Tennessee Angles out of Cookeville 75-71. Pelham led the way with 27 points, Lankford had 17, Locke hit for 13, Cunningham had five, Brittany Brewer, Youngblood and Heather Frazier had four points each and McKenna Rhea added one point.