Jenkins senior point guard Whitney Creech scored 50 points in a crucial 64-44 victory over 53rd District and county rival Letcher County Central (4-11) on Friday.

 

Jenkins (8-7 overall, 1-2 district) earned its first district win of the season and moved above .500. Creech has 4,618 points for her career 767 on the season for an average of just more than 51 per game.

 

Creech needs 330 more points to pass Highlands Ladybirds Head Coach Jaime Walz-Richey for the most career points in Kentucky history boys and girls. Richey scored 4,948 in her career.

 

Jenkins next takes on Leslie County (10-4) on Tuesday in the All "A" 14th Region Tournament at Perry County Central. Game time is 6 p.m.

 

Fort Thomas Matters Sports: Creech scores 50 as Jenkins handles county rival

Jenkins is actually 2-2 in district play now. They have split with JBS, lost to KCC, and now beat LCC. This moves them to 3rd in the district. KCC is 1st, JBS is 2nd, Jenkins 3rd, LCC 4th, and Cordia 5th. If the season ended today. Either JBS or Jenkins would make the regional tournament, playing the 2nd/3rd place game. Pretty crazy season in the 14th this year.

Huge congratulations to Miss Creech. So much negative talk out there. People want to say she wouldn't this this in Lexington or if she was playing better competition. I wouldn't be poor if I was born into royalty. There are always ifs, however you can change what had happened. She's had a great career and deserves praise.