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Kingston 61 Prague 52
EDMOND — Senior Kes Reeves deferred much of the afternoon to Kingston’s hot hand, sophomore Kassie Bailey. But when Bailey fouled out in the fourth quarter, Reeves took over the basketball game for the Redskins.
Playing with what her coach thought was a broken pinkie finger, Reeves scored 10 of her 21 points in the fourth quarter, making eight straight free throws in the final 3:31 to help No. 11 Kingston pull away late for a 61-52 win over No. 3 Prague in a Class 3A girls quarterfinal at Edmond Santa Fe High School.
With the program’s first-ever state-tournament Kingston (21-6) advanced to play either Tulsa Holland Hall or Adair on Friday at 9 p.m. at State Fair Arena.
Prague’s freshman star, Chantae Embry, fouled out with 6:10 left with nine points and 11 rebounds, but the Red Devils still led 49-48 after a layup by Adisyn Auld with 2:54 left. But Prague (24-4) managed only two points after that.
Brit Henderson made two free throws with 2:01 left to put Kingston ahead for good at 50-49 and kept hitting free throws while Prague came up empty on the other end. Reeves’ three-point play with 27.8 seconds left — on a lengthof-the-court pass from Danna Wagnon — gave Kingston a 57-49 lead and sealed the win.
Bailey scored 16 points for Kingston, while Morgan Cooper had 12 and Caya Wright added 11 for Prague.
Tahlequah Seq. 59 Kansas 48
EDMOND — Tahlequah Sequoyah’s inside-outside combination of Jonia Walker and Alexys Keys proved too much for Kansas to handle Thursday afternoon in the Class 3A girls quarterfinals.
With Oklahoma State women’s coach Jim Littell present to watch Keys, the sophomore guard had 16 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals, while Walker, a junior center, pounded away inside with 19 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots to lift the second-ranked Indians to a 59-48 win at Edmond Santa Fe High School.
Sequoyah (26-3), the defending 3A champion, will take a 17-game winning streak into Friday’s semifinal against Comanche at State Fair Arena.
“Jonia played big for us early, for sure,” Sequoyah coach Larry Callison said. “She’s just a big force in there to block shots and rebound and score well. Lexi has really played well for us all year. ... She’s a good one.”
No. 7 Kansas (23-6) missed its first eight shots and managed only two points. Meanwhile, Keys — last year’s 3A tournament most valuable player — went 3 of 3 from 3-point range in the quarter as Sequoyah built a 12-2 lead.
The Comets came no closer than six points after that. Sequoyah led 27-18 at halftime and had an answer every time Kansas threatened.
Adair 61, Tulsa Holland Hall 56
EDMOND — Tulsa Holland Hall had the best player on the court in Gabby Gregory, but Adair’s depth eventually won the day for the Warriors in the Class 3A quarterfinals on Thursday night.
No. 1 Adair built a 16-point lead, then weathered a huge rally by the Dutch to win 61-56 at Edmond Santa Fe High School. Adair (25-2) will face No. 11 Kingston (21-6) in Friday’s semifinals at State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City.
No. 9 Holland Hall (20-9) lost despite a yeoman’s performance by Gregory, a 6-foot junior post player who had 37 points, 22 rebounds and four steals while Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale watched from the stands.
Gregory had 23 of the Dutch’s 29 first-half points. A bucket by Joci Lake — the only other Holland Hall player to score in the first half, pulled the Dutch even at 26-26 with 2:13 left, but Adair seized control with a 16-3 run spanning the halves that included two 3-pointers by Jocee Winfield.
Adair led 52-36 after closing the third quarter on a 10-1 run, but Gregory had seven points in an 8-0 spurt by the Dutch to start the fourth quarter that cut the gap in half. Holland Hall pulled within 58-53 with 56.5 seconds left, but a key basket by sophomore Chasee Cooper with 44 seconds left and the Warriors closed the game out from there.
Autumn Hines led a balanced Adair attack with 14 points — all in the first half — while fellow sophomore Sophie Bagby had 12.
Comanche 52, Hartshorne 33
EDMOND — Despite a Class 3A runner-up finish last season, No. 4 Comanche felt slighted by what the Indians perceived as a lack of consideration by folks predicting who this year’s state champion might be, so they took it out on No. 5 Hartshorne.
Comanche’s 6-foot-3 center, Misty Dossey, had 23 points, 14 rebounds and six blocked shots and the Indians dominated nearly from start to finish while blitzing the previously undefeated Miners 52-33 at Edmond Santa Fe High School.
Comanche (27-2) earned a semifinal rematch with No. 2 Tahlequah Sequoyah (25-3), the team the Indians lost to in last year’s title game, while winning the 100th game in the career of seniors Carlyn Gay, Bryton Doucet, Jordyn Morris, Dossey and Tracy Stevens.
“Our girls aren’t going to back down from anybody,” Comanche coach Sean Hushbeck said. “We’re the defending Class 3A state runner-up. We’ve earned everything, all the respect and that kind of stuff. Our girls have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder. Nobody talked us. On the state level, nobody printed anything about us. They know how to read. They wanted to prove ... that last year wasn’t a fluke.”
Comanche led 26-12 at halftime and 40-20 after three quarters. The Miners pulled within 40-28 on a 3-pointer by Jaycee Kitchell with 4:58 left but managed only one more field goal.
EDMOND — Senior Kes Reeves deferred much of the afternoon to Kingston’s hot hand, sophomore Kassie Bailey. But when Bailey fouled out in the fourth quarter, Reeves took over the basketball game for the Redskins.
Playing with what her coach thought was a broken pinkie finger, Reeves scored 10 of her 21 points in the fourth quarter, making eight straight free throws in the final 3:31 to help No. 11 Kingston pull away late for a 61-52 win over No. 3 Prague in a Class 3A girls quarterfinal at Edmond Santa Fe High School.
With the program’s first-ever state-tournament Kingston (21-6) advanced to play either Tulsa Holland Hall or Adair on Friday at 9 p.m. at State Fair Arena.
Prague’s freshman star, Chantae Embry, fouled out with 6:10 left with nine points and 11 rebounds, but the Red Devils still led 49-48 after a layup by Adisyn Auld with 2:54 left. But Prague (24-4) managed only two points after that.
Brit Henderson made two free throws with 2:01 left to put Kingston ahead for good at 50-49 and kept hitting free throws while Prague came up empty on the other end. Reeves’ three-point play with 27.8 seconds left — on a lengthof-the-court pass from Danna Wagnon — gave Kingston a 57-49 lead and sealed the win.
Bailey scored 16 points for Kingston, while Morgan Cooper had 12 and Caya Wright added 11 for Prague.
Tahlequah Seq. 59 Kansas 48
EDMOND — Tahlequah Sequoyah’s inside-outside combination of Jonia Walker and Alexys Keys proved too much for Kansas to handle Thursday afternoon in the Class 3A girls quarterfinals.
With Oklahoma State women’s coach Jim Littell present to watch Keys, the sophomore guard had 16 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals, while Walker, a junior center, pounded away inside with 19 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots to lift the second-ranked Indians to a 59-48 win at Edmond Santa Fe High School.
Sequoyah (26-3), the defending 3A champion, will take a 17-game winning streak into Friday’s semifinal against Comanche at State Fair Arena.
“Jonia played big for us early, for sure,” Sequoyah coach Larry Callison said. “She’s just a big force in there to block shots and rebound and score well. Lexi has really played well for us all year. ... She’s a good one.”
No. 7 Kansas (23-6) missed its first eight shots and managed only two points. Meanwhile, Keys — last year’s 3A tournament most valuable player — went 3 of 3 from 3-point range in the quarter as Sequoyah built a 12-2 lead.
The Comets came no closer than six points after that. Sequoyah led 27-18 at halftime and had an answer every time Kansas threatened.
Adair 61, Tulsa Holland Hall 56
EDMOND — Tulsa Holland Hall had the best player on the court in Gabby Gregory, but Adair’s depth eventually won the day for the Warriors in the Class 3A quarterfinals on Thursday night.
No. 1 Adair built a 16-point lead, then weathered a huge rally by the Dutch to win 61-56 at Edmond Santa Fe High School. Adair (25-2) will face No. 11 Kingston (21-6) in Friday’s semifinals at State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City.
No. 9 Holland Hall (20-9) lost despite a yeoman’s performance by Gregory, a 6-foot junior post player who had 37 points, 22 rebounds and four steals while Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale watched from the stands.
Gregory had 23 of the Dutch’s 29 first-half points. A bucket by Joci Lake — the only other Holland Hall player to score in the first half, pulled the Dutch even at 26-26 with 2:13 left, but Adair seized control with a 16-3 run spanning the halves that included two 3-pointers by Jocee Winfield.
Adair led 52-36 after closing the third quarter on a 10-1 run, but Gregory had seven points in an 8-0 spurt by the Dutch to start the fourth quarter that cut the gap in half. Holland Hall pulled within 58-53 with 56.5 seconds left, but a key basket by sophomore Chasee Cooper with 44 seconds left and the Warriors closed the game out from there.
Autumn Hines led a balanced Adair attack with 14 points — all in the first half — while fellow sophomore Sophie Bagby had 12.
Comanche 52, Hartshorne 33
EDMOND — Despite a Class 3A runner-up finish last season, No. 4 Comanche felt slighted by what the Indians perceived as a lack of consideration by folks predicting who this year’s state champion might be, so they took it out on No. 5 Hartshorne.
Comanche’s 6-foot-3 center, Misty Dossey, had 23 points, 14 rebounds and six blocked shots and the Indians dominated nearly from start to finish while blitzing the previously undefeated Miners 52-33 at Edmond Santa Fe High School.
Comanche (27-2) earned a semifinal rematch with No. 2 Tahlequah Sequoyah (25-3), the team the Indians lost to in last year’s title game, while winning the 100th game in the career of seniors Carlyn Gay, Bryton Doucet, Jordyn Morris, Dossey and Tracy Stevens.
“Our girls aren’t going to back down from anybody,” Comanche coach Sean Hushbeck said. “We’re the defending Class 3A state runner-up. We’ve earned everything, all the respect and that kind of stuff. Our girls have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder. Nobody talked us. On the state level, nobody printed anything about us. They know how to read. They wanted to prove ... that last year wasn’t a fluke.”
Comanche led 26-12 at halftime and 40-20 after three quarters. The Miners pulled within 40-28 on a 3-pointer by Jaycee Kitchell with 4:58 left but managed only one more field goal.
