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Crawfordsville junior Alex Gasaway scored a team-high 20 points to lift the Athenians to the conference title. |
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| Girls basketball
Friday
At Frankfort
Crawfordsville 59, Frankfort 35
Crawfordsville 12 15 25 7 – 59
Frankfort 11 6 8 10 – 35
Scoring:
Crawfordsville – Alex Gasaway 9-14 0-0 20, Lexi Stevens 4-5 2-3 12,
Mandi Johnson 4-10 2-2 11, Betty Elliott 4-11 1-2 9, Kylie Justus 2-8
0-0 5, Katy Conklin 1-4 0-0 2, Stephanie Wethington 0-1 0-0 0, Courtney
Hamilton 0-0 0-0 0, Sydney Brock 0-0 0-0 0, Sara Barr 0-0 0-0 0.
Totals: 25-53 4-7 59. Frankfort – Alex Thompson 5-9 7-9 17, Brittney
Warmoth 3-10 1-2 8, Brook Howe 2-11 2-5 6, Maci Webster 1-2 1-1 3,
Graham Warwick 0-0 1-1 1, Ashley Lawson 0-1 0-2 0, Megan Miller 0-1 0-0
0, Whitney Leach 0-0 0-0 0, Alex Taylor 0-0 0-0 0, Elizabeth Scott 0-0
0-0 0, Torie Foust 0-0 0-1 0, Totals: 11-34 12-20 35.
Three-point
shooting: Crawfordsville 6-13 (Gasaway 2-2, Stevens 2-3, Justus 1-4,
Johnson 1-4), Frankfort 1-6 (Warmoth 1-4, Howe 0-2)
Rebounds: Crawfordsville 32 (Elliott 8, Gasaway 7), Frankfort 35 (Thompson 9)
Fouls: Crawfordsville 20, Frankfort 12
Fouled out: Johnson C
Turnovers: Crawfordsville 23, Frankfort 33
Records: Crawfordsville 17-2 (6-0 SAC), Frankfort 10-7 (4-2 SAC)
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Reprinted courtesy of:
The Paper of Montgomery County
www.thepaper24-7.com
By Cale Stephens
For The Paper
FRANKFORT – The Athenians have another championship to celebrate.
Class
3A No. 8 Crawfordsville High School’s girls basketball team soundly
defeated Sagamore Athletic Conference rival Frankfort 59-35 to earn
their second straight outright conference championship Friday.
The Sagamore Conference crown is the Athenians’ third overall conference title.
“Winning
the conference was obviously a goal of ours,” Crawfordville coach
Darren Haas said. “Let’s face it. We’ve got bigger aspirations than
just winning the conference this year. We want to win every conference
game.”
Crawfordsville will get a chance to go 7-0 in the conference next Friday night against Western Boone.
Junior
Alex Gasaway led Crawfordsville with 20 points. Seniors Lexi Stevens
added 12 points, while senior Mandi Johnson had 11. Junior Betty
Elliott put in nine points and grabbed eight rebounds.
Gasaway was surprised to find out that she had scored as much as she did.
“I
never really know what I score,” she said. “I know Coach Haas didn’t
expect for us to blow [Frankfort] out. We worked on last-second plays
in practice because we thought the game would be that close.”
Crawfordsville
(17-2, 6-0 SAC) was slow out of the gate and didn’t hit its stride
until Johnson was saddled with two quick fouls in the first quarter.
Frankfort (10-7, 4-2 SAC) held an 11-4 lead with 3:15 to play in the opening quarter.
“We
seem to have had a lot of slow starts, this year especially,” Gasaway
said. “We’ve had trouble adjusting to the gym in the past. I don’t know
if that was it or not.”
Gasaway found her spark and she and junior Betty Elliott cut loose.
The duo scored 15 points during a 21-1 scoring run over the next 10 minutes to put the game out of reach.
“[Our
first quarter] was like the first quarter last week against Southmont,”
Haas said. “It’s like we came out and played the worst quarter ever.
Then we had one of the best quarters to follow it up. I feel like our
team goes as Alex goes many times. And Alex had a slow start tonight.
She was very lethargic. So our team was lethargic. She had a quiet
game. I would have guessed she only had 10 points.”
A 25-point third quarter by the Athenians was just the icing on the cake for their second-straight conference title.
“[Winning
the championship] takes the pressure off of us for next week,” Gasaway
said. “We will be relaxed and we play a lot better that way.” |
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