Final from Brooksville.

 

McKenzie Butler with 15 for Mason & Bailey Cummins with 15 for Bracken.

 

Lady Royals leading 52-51 in the closing seconds...Butler misses front end of bonus, but rebound ends in a tie-up, keeping the ball with Mason. Butler misses another front-end & Alivia Bierley gets the board & is fouled. She hits 1-2 & Bracken calls timeout with about 8 seconds left.

 

Emma Conley gets fouled & also misses front-end of a bonus. A Mason player, not sure who, misses yet another front-end of bonus but the Lady Royals again get an offensive rebound & Bierley hits two to seal it.

 

In short, some stinky free throw shooting down the stretch in what sounded like a competitive game.

 

Second straight victory for Mason County in this rivalry.

Mason 21 8 12 14 --55

Bracken 14 10 15 12 --51

MC: Bierley 10, Frodge 0, Green 7, O'Mara 10, Butler 15, Boone 6, McNutt 5, Kumler 2, Littleton 0. Total 55.

 

BC: Wills 9, Bell 5, Jefferson 1, Cummins 20, Conley 5, Woods 11, Miller 0, Jones 0. Total 51.

 

3-pointers: MC 6 (Butler 3, Green, McNutt, O'Mara), BC 4 (Woods 2, Conley, Cummins).

 

Records: Mason County 2-1, Bracken County 3-1.

 

Lady Royals' big plays fend off Lady Bears