I'll be covering both the Girls and the Boys championships today at Louisville Holy Cross. Let's dig into this girls matchup.

1/12/25

Portland Christian (5-5)

At. Louisville Holy Cross (4-7)

Portland Christian

Piper Scott Sr. 18.7 ppg

Addie Bragg Sr. 11.1 ppg

Bailey Atcher So. 2.8 

Elisa Hidrigo Jr. 2.7 ppg

Eva Hidrogo Jr. 2.2 ppg

Andi Beyerle 7th 2.9 ppg

Louisville Holy Cross

Graycee Clark SO 9.6 ppg 

Landyn Webb JR 8.3 ppg 

Kenzi Stoddard SO 4.9 ppg 

Karsyn Hartlage FR. 3.5 ppg

Kinsley Fries FR 3.6 ppg

These two teams have not met this season and have fairly similar records but I feel Holy Cross has played a tougher schedule and has the advantage at home. I'll pick them to win a close one here and move on to Owensboro as the 6th region all A champions and play the 10th region Wednesday January 23rd at 10:30.

 

30 minutes until tipoff in this one.

5:39 to go in first Holy Cross leads 5 to 3.

3:51 to go in first. Holy Cross leads 9 to 6. Portland Christian senior guard Piper Scott is a shooter and has two threes she averages 18.7 pts a game.

End of first Holy Cross leads 12 to 11.

5:11 to go in first Holy Cross leads 19 to 13. The Cougars are young and very balanced. They play 2 freshman and two sophmores in their top 6 rotation.

1:59 to go in half Holy Cross leads 27 to 16. Sophmores Graycee Clark and Kenzi Stoddard have a great connection together and have played together their whole life. The future is bright for this team.

Halftime Holy Cross 27 Portland Christian 16.

6:53 to go in third Holy Cross leads 29 to 19. Piper Scott has 15 of the teams 19 for Portland Christian with 5 threes.

4 minutes to go in third Cougars lead 31 to 24.

Timeout on floor 3 minutes to go in third Holy Cross leads cut down to 5 at 31 to 26. Portland Christian is on a 7 to 0 run.

1:50 to go in third Holy Cross leads 33 to 30.

End of third Holy Cross leads 36 to 32 huge 3 to end the quarter fir Graycee Clark for the Cougars.

6:25 to go in game Holy Cross leads 41 to 34.