The Southwood Lady Knights battled turnovers and poor shooting Wednesday, but held on to defeat Eastbrook 42-33.
Izzy Ashba would get the scoring started with a three pointer and with buckets from Alivia Pershing and Lola Winer led 7-2. Eastbrook would then score the next seven points to grab a 9-7 lead before two buckets from Adi Deaton and one from Hailey Collins gave Southwood a 13-9 lead after one.
Ashba, Gracie Lambert and Winer would build the lead to 19-10 before once again the Panthers clawed their way back. Up 20-18 Hali Pershing would end the second quarter with a bucket as the Knights led 22-18 at the half.
It looked as though the Knights were going to run away from the Panthers in the third. A bucket from Alivia Pershing and three buckets from Hali Pershing made it 30-21 before Eastbrook scored the next four points. Winer would hit right before the buzzer to put Southwood up 32-25 after three.
Winer would hit again to start the fourth quarter before Eastbrook scored five straight to make it 30-25. The Knights would answer with six straight on buckets from Ashba, Winer and Hali Pershing to make it 40-30 before winning 42-33.
Scoriing : Collins 2, Ashba 8, Deaton 6, Lambert 2, H. Pershing 10, Winer 10, A. Pershing 4.
The Southwood junior varsity won a two quarter game over Eastbrook 10-7.
Scoring : Denney 1, Pulley 2, Chambers 5, Farr 2
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