Shelby Valley’s (Ky.) Lady Cats earned a 53-38 win over North Greene in an elimination game Thursday.
The inside-outside combination of the Cats’ guard Cassidy Rowe and posts Alyssa Elswick and Zoee Johnson proved too much to handle for the Huskies. Elswick had a double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds while Rowe scored 11 and Johnson had 10.
Shelby Valley led 27-24 at intermission and the Huskies could not gain much headway in the third. The Cats put it away with a 15-5 scoring surge in the final period after leading by 38-33 ending the third.
North Greene was led by Sonya Wagner with 13 points while Hailee English scored 11.
NORTH GREENE (38): M.Buchanan 0-1 1-2 1, Sanders 0-4 0-0 0, Hailee English 5-7 0-0 11, Britton 1-5 0-0 3, Gaby 1-2 0-0 3, G.Buchanan 0-2 0-0 0, Davenport 1-6 0-0 3, Sonya Wagner 5-11 0-0 13, Anderson 2-3 0-2 4. TOTALS: 15-42 1-4 38.
SHELBY VALLEY (53): Alvin 1-4 0-0 2, Meade 3-8 0-0 7, Alyssa Elswick 8-11 5-8 21, Cassidy Rowe 5-12 0-0 11, Zoee Johnson 5-7 0-0 10, S.Johnson 0-1 2-2 2. TOTALS: 22-43 7-10 53.
3-Point Goals: NG—7 (Wagner 3, Davenport, Gaby, Britton, English). SV—2 (Meade, Rowe).
NORTH GREENE 13 11 9 5—38
SHELBY VALLEY 16 11 11 15—53