Photo: 12 Rylee Hobson drives to the basket
The Prescott Lady Badgers had their share of highs and lows in the Lady Badgers Basketball Classic, held at Prescott High School.
Prescott played a good opening round game, beating Apollo 58-50 in their first contest. A tough loss to Paradise Valley 59-41 followed in their second game of the day. The battle of day one was between the Sedona Red Rock Scorpions and McClintock Chargers. The two teams had only one loss each coming in, and it went down to the wire, as the 5A Chargers just got past the 2A Scorpions 46-45.
Photo: 10 Bella Abt looks for a way to pass around an Apollo Hawk
Day two started off exciting enough with a comeback overtime win over the Tucson Badgers. Prescott trailed by as many as 18 points before battling back to send the game to overtime. Prescott would go one to beat Tucson in a battle of the Badgers 48-43. Bella Abt led the Prescott Lady Badgers in scoring with 14. Having to play overtime did not help the Lady Badgers energy wise for the next game 90 minutes later.
The home team followed that up with a shellacking by an extremely good Sedona Red Rock team 74-26. Sedona used an onslaught of three point baskets to build a 28-4 lead after just the first quarter, cruising the remainder of the game to take home fifth place. The Badgers ended up with a sixth place finish, by going 2-2 in the two day tournament that saw sixteen schools from divisions 2A to 6A participate.
Prescott (5-8) will open up region play on Tuesday, when the Badgers host Mohave at 5:30 pm.
PRESCOTT LADY BADGERS 58, APOLLO HAWKS 50
APOLLO (50)-Ayala 3 0-0 7, Lee 1 0-0 2, Joralmon 2 2-2 7, A. Cruz 4 9-12 17, Green 2 0-0 6, Crump 1 1-2 3, P. Cruz 1 0-0 2, Olivas 2 0-0 4. 16 12-16 50
PRESCOTT (58)-Z. Libis 3 0-0 7, R. Libis 2 5-8 10, Abt 4 6-8 14, Hobson 3 2-4 8, Little 2 1-2 7, King 6 3-6 15, Cunningham 0 1-3 1, Reinert 0 0-0. 20 15-28 58
Score by Quarters- 1 2 3 4 – T
Apollo 4 15 14 17 – 50
Prescott 16 18 11 16 – 58
Total Fouls-A27, P17
Fouled Out-Crump, Lee
Three Pointers-A(4)-Green 2, Joralmon 1, Ayala 1. P(3)-Little 2, Z. Libis 1
PARADISE VALLEY TROJANS 59, PRESCOTT LADY BADGERS 41
PRESCOTT (41)-Z. Libis 1 2-2 5, R. Libis 4 0-0 11, Abt 4 5-10 13, Hobson 2 0-0 4, Little 0 0-0 0, Cunningham 0 0-0 0, King 4 0-0 8, Reinert 0 0-0 0. 15 7-12 41.
PARADISE VALLEY (59)-Sackor 13 0-2 27, Collins 3 0-0 6, Blazina 1 0-2 3, Resendez 2 2-2 7, Munoz 1 1-2 3, Graber 5 0-0 10, Shiva 0 0-0 0, Newitt 1 0-0 2. 26 3-6 59.
Score by Quarters- 1 2 3 4 – T
Prescott 8 9 10 14 – 41
Paradise Valley 22 11 14 12 – 59
Total Fouls- P10, PV 12
Fouled Out- None
Three Pointers- P(4)-R. Libis 3, Z. Libis 1 PV(3)-Sackor 1, Blazina 1, Resendez 1
First Round Scores
McClintock 62, Bradshaw Mountain 50
Sedona Red Rock 46, Lee Williams 36
PRESCOTT 58, Apollo 50
Paradise Valley 59, Marana 31
Mountain Ridge 67, Mingus 34
Estrella Foothills 55, Coconino 43
Tucson 39, Thunderbird 36
Cibola 56, Centennial 30
Second Round Scores
Paradise valley 59, PRESCOTT 41
McClintock 46, Sedona Red Rock 45
Mountain Ridge 57, Estrella Foothills 43
Cibola 61, Tucson 39
Lee Williams 37, Bradshaw Mountain 35
Mingus 59, Coconino 49
Apollo 68, Marana 42
Third Round Scores
PRESCOTT 48, Tucson 43, OT
Centennial 47, Marana 41
Cibola 53, Paradise Valley 42
Thunderbird 43, Apollo 39
Finals Scores
Championship- McClintock 46, Cibola 37
Third Place-Mountain Ridge vs Paradise Valley, no score reported
Fifth Place- Sedona Red Rock 74, PRESCOTT 26
Bradshaw Mountain 33, Centennial 29
Mingus 62, Apollo 45
