picture by: Kim North
Monroe Central’s Jacey English (3) traces up a shot from the highest of the important thing throughout Saturday afternoon’s OVAC WVU Medicine Girls Basketball Championships in opposition to Shenandoah in the Class 3A sport on the ECO Center. The Seminoles dropped a 60-52 verdict to the Zeps.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Offensive rebounds will harm a staff, particularly when they’re transformed into second-chance factors.
Top-seeded Shenandoah (17-2) recorded a dozen boards off its personal missed pictures, turning lots of them into factors because the Zeps held off No. 3 Monroe Central, 60-52 in the OVAC WVU Medicine Class 3A Girls Basketball Championships on Saturday afternoon inside a jam-packed ECO Center.
“We just didn’t do a good enough job on the back side of our defense. We gave up too many second-chance points. I don’t know how many (second-chance) points we gave up, but it was 14 in the first half. The second half was a little bit better, but that was the difference in the game.”
The contest was deadlocked 4 occasions in the primary quarter earlier than Shenandoah took a 13-12 lead on a Emma Dailey free throw with 0.4 seconds left.
Monroe Central suffered an enormous blow early in the second quarter when sophomore Miley Bommer injured her knee with 6:45 on the clock. She was carried from the ground, however returned to the Seminoles bench along with her proper knee wrapped in ice. She didn’t return.
Baker wouldn’t focus on the seriousness of the damage.
With Bommer out of the lineup, Shenandoah led 18-15 earlier than happening a 11-2 run that propelled it to a 12-point, 29-17, benefit.
A 3 by Monroe Central’s Allie McFrederick simply earlier than the halftime buzzer drew the Seminoles to inside 9, 29-20.
Trailing 40-29 with somewhat greater than two minutes remaining in the third quarter, Monroe Central made its transfer, sparked by Brylee McFrederick with seven of her game-high 20 factors. She had all however certainly one of her staff’s markers in the primary quarter.
Monroe Central lastly drew even at 44 when Brylee McFrederick kissed a brief shot off the glass with 5:52 left to play.
The two groups have been knotted at 47 and 48 earlier than Shenandoah scored 4 straight factors for a 52-48 lead it could not relinquish.
“They have a nice team. They have two nice guards and two good post players,” Baker mentioned of the Zeps. They outworked us on the boards, that was the distinction.”
It was a 56-52 lead earlier than the Zeps linked 4 free throws down the stretch to seal the deal.
Jadyn Miller and Mayzie Emery every netted 10 factors for the Seminoles. Miller additionally pulled down six of Monroe Central’s 16 rebounds.
Brenna Leach paced 4 Zeps in double figures with 19. Emily Moore added 17, Molly Van Fleet 11 and Dailey 10. Leach additionally grabbed a dozen of the Zeps’ 33 boards.
Shenandoah shot 19-for 30 from the foul line to only 6-for-9 for Monroe Central.
Both groups charted 10 turnovers.