Arab Girls Defeat Johnson 48-39
Kathryn Whitlock is surrounded
by Johnson defensive players during the Thursday night
sub-regional game at the Arab High School Gymnasium.
Photo by Dwight Hayes
February 15,
2007
The Lady Knights,
currently ranked number two in the state, moved another step
closer to the State Championship game after defeating the
Johnson Lady Jaguars in a bruising, hard fought game
Thursday night. The Lady Knights will face Talladega
in the 9 a.m. opening game of the regional playoffs at
Jacksonville State University on Monday. Talladega won
over Erwin by a score of 45-39 Thursday night.
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In a game
that sometimes resembled football more than basketball, Arab
found themselves in unusual territory in the first half as
the Lady Jaguars scored first and led for the first five
minutes of the first quarter. Arab took the lead with
approximately three minutes left in the first quarter and
managed a 11 - 8 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Johnson outscored Arab in the second and third quarter as
Alli Smalley was forced to sit out much of the time after
being called for three fouls early in the game.
Johnson led 25-24 at the half and 35-33 at the end of three
quarters of play. Arab struck with a vengeance in the
fourth quarter, outscoring Johnson 15-4 to win 48-39.
The tough,
physical play by Johnson may have been their own undoing as
Arab racked up 17 points from free throws due to the Johnson
fouls. Arab shot 70.8% or 17 of 24 attempts while
Johnson scored on 12 of 20 free throws for a 60% average.
From the two
point field goal range, Arab made 14 of 44
shots for a 31.8% while Johnson made only 12
of 49 field goal shots for a 24.5% total.
From outside the three point circle Arab hit
3 of 7 for a 42.9% shot percentage while
Johnson managed to make only 3 of 14
attempts with a 21.4% shot percentage.
Courtney Gibson
led the Arab scoring with 17 points and 2
assists and 2 steals. Gibson was 6 of
8 from the free throw line. Kate
Hadkova, who was deadly from the free throw
line, scored 13 points pulled in 9 rebounds
and had 1 assist and 1 steal. Hadkova
hit 7 of 8 free throw attempts. Alli
Smalley added 10 points, 6 rebounds and 1
assist and 3 steals. Kathryn Whitlock
who led the defense with 10 rebounds also
tossed in 6 points. In addition,
Whitlock contributed 3 assists and 1 steal.
Anna Huckaby contributed 2 points to round
out the Arab scoring. In addition,
Huckaby had 3 rebounds and three assists.
Lindsey Guess
sustained a knee injury very early and was
sidelined for the rest of the game.
She was to have an MRI after the game to
determine the extent of injury.
Leading the
Johnson scoring was McRae with 16, Davis
with 12, Allen with 5, White with 3, Owens
with 2 and Shore with 1 point.
The Arab -
Talladega game will be broadcast live by
WRAB - 1380 AM on Monday.
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