Twice as nice
- Updated: February 3, 2021
Girls roundup: Weaver edges PV, wins coin toss to claim No. 3 seed in area tournament; Cherokee County, Piedmont combine on state 3s record, and more
Tuesday’s girls games
Cherokee County 79, Piedmont 59
Cleburne County 73, Wellborn 31
Glencoe 63, Westbrook Christian 30
Jacksonville 57, Springville 40
Lafayette 55, Ranburne 53
Ohatchee 44, Hokes Bluff 42
Ragland 51, Ashville 47
Spring Garden 57, Plainview 42
Weaver 48, Pleasant Valley 46
By East Alabama Sports Today
WEAVER – The Weaver girls basketball team had a whole better feeling leaving their gym Tuesday night than it did the night before.
That’s because they won twice on the same night.
The Lady Bearcats held off a late charge to beat Pleasant Valley 48-46 and force a coin toss for the third and fourth seeds in their upcoming Class 3A Area 11 Tournament. And then shortly after the game they won the toss for the tiebreaker. They had been winless in play coming into the game.
“Luck of the Irish, I guess, but I ain’t even Irish,” Weaver coach Gary Atchley quipped. “In the end it couldn’t be any better.”
The seeding is significant because as the No. 3 Weaver now travels to Piedmont for its area tournament opener instead of top-seeded Ohatchee, which is now PV’s fate after the coin toss. If the two lower seeds win, the Lady Bearcats will host the area tournament title game.
Weaver’s Haley Homesley led all scorers with 29 points; she had 18 in the second half. The Lady Bearcats led by 10 points in the fourth quarter and held off the Lady Raiders’ charge.
Rylee Haynes scored 10 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter. Macey Roper led PV with 16 points.
After the game PV coach Colton Morris asked Atchley if he wanted to do the coin toss right then instead of waiting for the area meeting. Weaver principal Andy Keith tossed it, Morris called it tails and it came up heads.
“Me being from Pleasant Valley it’s always a big game,” Atchley said. “I know their whole community. I know their people. It’s always a good, hard-fought, close game. It always means a little more against them.”
Weaver 48, Pleasant Valley 46
PLEASANT VALLEY – Lily Henry 2 0-2 5, Rylee Haynes 4 7-8 15, Marlie Wright 2 0-0 5, Gracie Hood 1 0-0 3, Macey Roper 7 2-6 16, Anna Worthy 1 0-0 2. Totals 17 9-16 46.
WEAVER – Madison Atchley 1 1-2 3, Taylor Lawrence 3 0-0 7, Tiana Lawrence 1 0-0 2, D.J. Gibbs 2 3-8 7, Haley Homesley 9 7-8 29, Nevaeh Hawkins 0 0-1 0. Totals 16 11-19 48.
Pleasant Valley 5 9 13 19 – 46
Weaver 11 9 15 13 – 48
3-point goals: Pleasant Valley 3 (Henry, Hood, Wright); Weaver 5 (Ta. Lawrence, Homesley 4). Fouled out: Henry, Haynes, Ti. Lawrence. Total fouls: Pleasant Valley 17, Weaver 12.
OHATCHEE 44, HOKES BLUFF 42: Jorda Crook scored 16 points and Tori Vice had 12 to lead the Lady Indians. Vice was 7-of-8 from the free throw line and Crook scored eight of her points in the third quarter when Ohatchee opened an 11-point lead.
Ohatchee 44, Hokes Bluff 42
OHATCHEE – Gracyn Snow 2 0-1 5, Rachel Dunaway 1 0-0 3, Tori Vice 2 7-8 12, Morgan Foushee 1 0-0 3, Millie Rainwater 1 0-0 3, Jorda Crook 7 2-10 16, Alyssa Davis 0 2-4 2. Totals 14 11-23 44.
HOKES BLUFF – Charly Robinson 1 2-2 4, Madison Wolfe 4 1-1 12, MacKenzie Bates 0 0-0 0, Maddie Smith 2 2-4 6, Halle Davenport 2 0-0 5, Haley Kate Wellingham 0 0-0 0, Kileigh Blackwell 4 3-3 11, Chloe Rule 1 0-0 2, Bailee Latronico 1 0-0 3. Totals 15 8-10 42.
Ohatchee 9 11 16 8 – 44
Hokes Bluff 8 8 9 17 – 42
3-point goals: Ohatchee 5 (Snow, Dunaway, Vice, Foushee, Rainwater); Hokes Bluff 4 (Wolfe 3, Davenport). Fouled out: Latronico. Technical fouls: Vice. Total fouls: Ohatchee 15. Hokes Bluff 18. Officials: Wood, McCareeth, Pratt.
Centre, Piedmont set 3-point mark
CHEROKEE COUNTY 79, PIEDMONT 59: They basically played this one outside the arc as the teams combined for a girls state record 30 3-pointers. Cherokee County hit 16 and Piedmont hit 14.
According to the AHSAA record book, the previous record for combined 3s in a girls game was 27 set by Cold Springs and Cleveland in a 2019 area tournament game. Cold Springs made 20 in that game.
Karlee Perry hit six for Cherokee County on the way to a 20-point game, while Emily Farmer hit six for Piedmont — all in the second half — to score 18 points.
LeLe Ridley (19 points, 10 rebounds) and Ava Pope (14) each hit four 3s for the Lady Bulldogs, who were 14-of-31 as a team from behind the arc in the game. Cherorkee County’s Audrey Green hit all four of her 3s in the first half as the Lady Warriors opened a 43-22 lead. Perry hit four of her 3s in the third quarter they stretched the lead to 25.
Cherokee County 79, Piedmont 59
PIEDMONT – Ava Pope 5 0-0 14, Jaycee Glover 0 0-1 0, LeLe Ridley 6 3-5 19, Cayla Brothers 2 0-0 4, Armoni Perry 2 0-0 4, Casey Brothers 0 0-0 0, Gracie Naugher 0 0-0 0, Z’hayla Walker 0 0-2 0, Emily Farrmer 6 0-0 18. Totals 21 3-8 59.
CHEROKEE COUNTY – Mary Johnson 3 0-0 8, Lanie Williams 2 1-2 7, Audrey Green 7 0-0 15, Audrey Haygood 1 2-2 4, Emily Allen 1 4-4 6, Carson Coley 2 0-0 6, Karlee Perry 7 0-0 20, Sidney Johnson 1 0-0 2, Elia Garmany 1 2-2 4, Hannah Waters 0 0-0 0, Raechel Russell 0 0-0 0, Grayson Tucker 2 0-0 4. Totals 27 9-10 79.
Piedmont 12 10 19 18 – 59
Cherokee County 18 25 23 13 – 79
3-point goals: Piedmont 14 (Pope 3, Ridley 4, Farmer 6); Cherokee County 16 (M. Johnson 2, Williams 2, Coley 2, Green 4, Perry 6). Total fouls: Piedmont 7, Cherokee County 13. Officials: Battles, Dykes, Kenton.
CLEBURNE COUNTY 73, WELLBORN 31: Haley Price scored all 12 of her points in a 33-point first quarter that got the Lady Tigers off and running. Brooklyn McDaniel scored 10 of her 13 in the first quarter and Faith Brown added nine of her game-high 22 to the fast start. McDaniel also had seven rebounds, five assists and six steals.
Cleburne County 73, Wellborn 31
WELLBORN – Brooklynn Singleton 1 2-3 4, Mikayla Williams 4 0-1 8, Taniya Traylor 0 0-0 0, Cloie Adkison 1 3-6 8, Calla Haynes 3 2-4 8, Anna Odom 3 0-0 6. Totals 12 7-14 31.
CLEBURNE COUNTY – Faith Brown 9 3-4 22, MaKenzie Frames 1 0-2 2, Olivia McDaniel 0 0-1 0, Chloe Kerr 1 0-0 2, Haley Price 4 2-2 12, Brooklyn McDaniel 4 5-6 13, Haven Freeman 2 1-3 5, Kaydence Wright 2 0-0 4, Libby Altman 4 0-0 11, Juliia Wilkerson 1 0-0 2. Totals
Wellborn 4 10 6 11 – 31
Cleburne County 33 12 18 10 – 73
3-point goals: Cleburne County 6 (Brown, Price 2, Altman 3). Fouled out: Traylor, Kerr. Total fouls: Wellborn 16, Cleburne County 15.
JACKSONVILLE 57, SPRINGVILLE 40: Kayla Broom and Maggie Anderson each scored 14 points and the Lady Golden Eagles had one of their better shooting nights of the season. Broom was 5-of-9 and Anderson 5-of-10 as Jacksonville shot 51 percent from the floor. B oom also had seven rebounds, six assists, five steals and two blocked shots. Amiyah Buchanan had six points, six rebounds and four blocked shots.
Jacksonville 57, Springville 40
SPRINGVILLE – Makalyn Kyser 3-7 3-5 9, Bennett Patterson 3-7 1-1 8, Abbie Taulton 3-14 0-0 7, Farrah Hawkins 3-8 0-0 6, Behak Hargrove 1-1 1-1 3, Isabella Bullington 1-4 0-0 2, Olivia Carroll 1-2 0-0 2, Isabeella Gray 1-1 0-0 2, Audrey Talton 0-0 1-2 1, Tatum Bartlett 0-2 0-0 0, Abby Byrd 0-0 0-0 0, Ava Vaughn 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 16-47 6-9 40.
JACKSONVILLE – Kayla Broom 5-9 2-2 14, Maggie Anderson 5-10 3-4 14, Ashley Grant 3-5 0-0 8, Autumn Carr 0-0 0-0 0, Kierra LaCount 0-1 0-0 0, DeAsia Prothro 0-0 0-0 0, Amarie Curry 3-7 1-2 7, Amiyah Buchanan 3-4 0-0 6, Patience Carr 2-3 1-2 5, Rebekah Gannaway 1-4 0-0 3, Totals 22-43 7-10 57.
Springville 13 4 9 14 – 40
Jacksonville 15 12 15 15 – 57
3-point goals: Springville 2-13 (Patterson 1-3, Taulton 1-7, Hawkins 0-2, Bartlett 0-1); Jacksonville 6-13 (Broom 2-3, Anderson 1-3, Grant 2-4, P. Carr 0-1, Gannaway 1-2). Rebounds: Springville 26 (Patterson 5, Bullington 5); Jacksonville 27 (Broom 7, Buchanan 6). Total fouls: Springville 7, Jacksonville 9.
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