The Greeneville girls were able to trade blows with Webb School of Knoxville for most of the night, but in the closing stretch they could not get shots to fall and took a 60-47 loss in their opening game of the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic.
“When we get five players on the floor that are hungry to win, we’ll be ok. But right now I can’t find those five players,” Greeneville coach Annette Watts said. “I can’t ask anymore of Kyle (Jobe), Maria (Lyde) and Abby (Adkins), but the rest of the bunch has to step up. We have to know our offenses, we work on them every day. We have great offenses that we can’t run because they don’t want the ball.”
Greeneville started the second half trailing 28-21, and that deficit grew to 32-21 after Webb’s Kyndall Mays scored four points inside. Abby Adkins answered with six points in the paint for the Lady Devils, and when Kyla Jobe nailed a pull-up triple Greeneville closed the gap to 36-33 with 3:45 left in the quarter.
Maria Lyde made it a two-point game at 37-35 when she grabbed a loose ball near the Lady Devils’ baseline and dropped in a short jumper from the block. With 1:41 left Lyde made one of two at the free-throw line to cut the Lady Spartans’ lead to 39-38.
Webb’s Meeyah Green scored the final four points of the third quarter to put the Lady Spartan’s in front 43-38.
Jobe got the fourth quarter started with a triple from the corner. Lyde then made a quick spin around Mays for a lay in, and with 4:24 left in the game Adkins sent a pass from the block to Jobe on the short corner for a jump shot that even the score at 45-45.
From there the Lady Spartans got hot from behind the arc, and Greeneville’s offense faded fast, finding just two more points the rest of the night.
“We let a kid shooting the three beat us tonight. And that’s with us telling them not to help off her,” Watts said. “I thought we did a good job of defending Green. But we have to be disciplined enough to do what the game plan says. Then on offense they started double-teaming (Jobe) and tripled teamed us inside, and we got stuck.”
Cailyn Taylor nailed back-to-back three-pointers for Webb and then Zahnyah Rockett added another that put the Lady Spartans in front 54-45. From there Webb played the rest of the game at the free-throw line and took the 60-47 win.
Friday’s action started with Webb using three-pointers from Harper Ladd, Rockett and Ivy Napier to take an 11-4 lead. Lyde gave Greeneville a little spark when she grabbed two offensive rebounds before making her way to the foul line for two free points. Jobe ended the opening period with a short jumper from the left block that cut Webb’s lead to 11-10.
Adkins began the second quarter with a hook shot that put the Lady Devils in front briefly at 12-11. Taylor followed with a pair of three-pointers for 17-12 Webb advantage.
Lyde and Adkins carried Greeneville with their inside presence in the period, and with 57 seconds left in the first half Adkins drove through traffic for a layup that cut Webb’s lead to 23-21.
Taylor sank her third three-pointer of the period, and a steal by Corisa Lowery led to a layup by Rockett for Webb’s 28-21 halftime lead.
Taylor led Webb with 17 points on Friday. Green scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, but the highly touted junior scored seven of those points at the free-throw line and was held to 4-of-14 shooting.
Lyde led Greeneville with 18 points and turned in a tough defensive effort that frustrated Greene for much of the night. Jobe had 15 points and five assists, and Adkins had 10 points and eight rebounds.
Morristown West 81, Chuckey-Doak 42
Morristown West had no problem waking up on Friday Morning as it jumped on top of Chuckey-Doak quickly and never let up on the way to an 81-42 win in the opener of day two at the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic.
Delaney Weddington had the hot hand early as she scored Morristown West’s first 13 points with just 1:27 running off the clock.
Just over two minutes into the opening period Maddie Simpson got through the lane to put the Lady Trojans in front 17-2.
The final six minutes of the period were played evenly on the scoreboard with Kennedy Brown scoring five points for Chuckey-Doak, but West led 29-11 at the first stoppage.
In the early portion of the second period Jhainya Mitchell started finding good looks in the paint and she scored eight points as the Lady Trojans’ took a 43-17 lead. Mitchell scored seven more points in the period while the Lady Trojans’ long arms made life difficult on the Lady Knights’ offense.
Morristown West went to halftime leading 56-26.
Aubrie Messer took over the scoring burden for West in the third quarter and she dropped in eight points. Tavyn Southerland knocked down a three-pointer for Chuckey-Doak and Brown produced five points, but long scoring droughts prevented the Lady Black Knights from closing the gap.
The game went to the fourth quarter with the Lady Trojans leading 76-38.
With the clock running in the fourth quarter Jayden Myers scored four points for Chuckey-Doak and West finished with an 81-42 win.
Tralyn Southerland led Chuckey-Doak with 11 points and eight rebounds, and Brown added 10 points.
Chuckey-Doak will play next on Monday at 9 a.m. against the loser of North Greene and South Greene.
Upperman 81, West Greene 25
A hot shooting Upperman squad was too much for West Greene on Thursday morning in the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic as the Lady Bees cruised to an 81-25 win.
Upperman tied the tournament record for made three-pointers with 14, and Sadie South broke the tournament record for three-pointers in a game with 10.
South’s big day started early with her sinking a triple on Upperman’s first possession, and she hit from behind the arc two more times in the opening frame. Taylor Dolente also knocked one down from deep and the Lady Bees led 15-5 after one quarter of play.
Upperman took total control with a 21-1 run that started the second quarter. South got things going by scoring the first six points on a pair of triples. From there Auburn Johnson scored in transition twice, Dolente put in seven points and South put in an inbound layup as the lead reached 36-6.
Madison Wagner made West Greene’s second field goal of the day with 2:08 left in the first half to break the streak, but Upperman led 46-8 at the half.
In the third quarter Morgan Brown got to the free-throw three times and scored five points for West Greene, but South hit two more triples and Dolente scored seven more points as Upperman’s lead grew to 63-17.
In the fourth quarter Johnson scored in transition four times while South hit her record-breaking three-pointer. Cyarra Nash also sank a triple as the Lady Bees finished the day with an 82-25 win.
South scored a game high 36 points while adding five assists and three steals. Dolente scored 18 with five assists, and Johnson scored 12 points.
For West Greene Brown and Payton Norton each scored six points. Joie Shiple grabbed 14 rebounds.
