On Friday night the Boiling Springs Lady Bulldogs picked up their first region win of the season behind great guard play from junior Laisha Labra and senior Arissa Edwards as the Bulldogs came away with a 35-25 road victory over the Gaffney Indians. "We needed that win," said Bulldogs head coach Dwayne Lytle. "We knew that for us to have a chance at the playoffs we needed this one. It's also great just to finally get that first region win, I would have taken a one point win as long as we got the win." Over the first four minutes of the game the Bulldogs couldn't find their way onto the scoreboard with the Bulldogs trailing 6-0 but soon Arissa Edwards got the first score of the game and got the Bulldogs on the board. After Edwards scored the Bulldogs Laisha Labra went on a 5-0 run of her own scoring two layups and a free throw to lead the Bulldogs in scoring for the quarter with five points and giving Boiling Springs a 7-6 lead after the first quarter. "Laisha stepped up big for us tonight," said Lytle. "She was hurt the last two games but she came back strong and produced just like we needed her to tonight." In the second quarter the Bulldogs outscored the Indians 7-4 and claimed a 14-10 halftime lead getting scores from Edwards, D'Marria Glenn, and Meghan Scharpenberg. In the third quarter it was all Edwards for the Bulldogs as she scored all eight of the Bulldogs points and finished in a tie with the Gaffney team in the third quarter to keep the Bulldogs lead at four points and claiming a 22-18 lead going into the final quarter. The Bulldogs were leading by six just before the third quarter buzzer sounded but Gaffney's A'Maurya Tate-Smith made a great hook shot from the right side of the basket to get the Indians two points closer heading into the fourth quarter. When the fourth quarter arrived Labra decided to follow Edwards example and have a big quarter of her own by scoring seven of the Bulldogs thirteen points in the quarter. Labra got the quarter started by hitting a big three pointer from the left side of the court and then hit another three pointer in the quarter to stop any hope for a Gaffney rally. "I have so much confidence in our guards because they put in so much work during the offseason," said Lytle. "With Laisha being a junior we knew we had to groom her to take over with Arissa being a senior and graduating this year. With the way she is playing she is proving that we made the right decision." In the fourth quarter Edwards hit a free throw and with that led the Bulldogs in scoring on Friday night with fourteen points. Labra finished the night with thirteen points of her own as both players combined to score twenty-six of the Bulldogs thirty-five points. Glenn and Scharpenberg also added to the Bulldogs total as they combined for the other nine Boiling Springs points on Friday night. Junior A'Maurya Tate-Smith led Gaffney on Friday night with thirteen points while Mikirea Shippy added eight points for the Indians. Boiling Springs will next return to the court on Tuesday night as they host Hillcrest to finish out the first half of region play. Bulldogs Suffer Heartbreaking Loss To IndiansBoiling Springs had opportunities late but were unable to get a shot to fall as they fell to the Gaffney Indians 46-45 on Friday night. With just over a minute left in the game the Bulldogs trailed by one and in that last minute had three opportunities with open looks to win the game but just couldn't get the ball to fall into the basket.
The Bulldogs fell behind 10-2 in the early part of the first quarter but were able to battle back and trailed by only one at 17-16 when the quarter ended. The Bulldogs even took the lead twice in the quarter after Cam Earls and Trey McManus both hit three pointers and were leading 17-14 before Gaffney finished on a 4-0 run to take the first quarter lead. Gaffney started the second quarter on a 5-0 run on their way to outscoring the Bulldogs 12-11 in the quarter and claiming a 30-28 lead at the halftime buzzer. In the third quarter Gaffney had a 42-33 lead with just over three minutes left but the Bulldogs finished the quarter on an 8-2 run to put the game at 44-40 in favor of the Indians. Gaffney was able to hold on to the lead thanks to a big third quarter by junior Undre Lindsay who scored twelve of his game high eighteen points in the third quarter in which Gaffney scored fourteen points. The final quarter of play was a tough shooting quarter for both teams as Boiling Springs won the quarter 5-2 but fell just one point shy of tying and two points shy of winning the game on Friday night. Boiling Springs was led in scoring on Friday night by Cam Earls who scored thirteen points and was followed on the scoring sheet by Khalil Brown and Jordon Askew who both scored eight points. Lindsay led the Indians with eighteen points while JoJo Goode came in second with eight points. Comments are closed.
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