Harrison County led throughout. Built lead to 10 or 11 at halftime, GRC fought back early in the third to cut the gap to two, but could never get over the hump. Fillies led by 10 with under two minutes to play, but had to hang on for the win, as GRC hit a couple of threes, forced a turnover or two to narrow the gap to 64-60 with 18 seconds to play.

 

GRC has as physically a gifted team as Harrison Co. has played this year. Number 11 for GRC COULD be a tremendous player before she is finished in Winchester...don't know her name.

GRC suffered with the loss of their big post player in the first few minutes of the game who went out with an ankle injury.

 

Harrison County got good overall play from Laura Kendall on both ends of the floor, along with solid efforts from Charley Hatfield, Kacey Muntz, Megan Bullock, Jessi Jett and Brittany Murphy. None of the Harrison County girls will ever dominate a game by themselves, but if they all do what they can do and do it effectively, they can compete with every team in the region. However, if they don't, they can be beaten by every team in the region as well.

 

You absolutely cannot compare scores, but it appears that several 10th Region teams are either raising their level of play to the Montgomery Co.'s and Mason County's of the world....OR those two teams are slipping to the level of the medium echelon teams. Not really sure which of those two scenarios is playing out.

 

Harrison loses to Nicholas but beats Bourbon and GRC; GRC beats Rowan who defeated Mason; Bourbon upsets Montgomery, Paris defends night in and night out which makes them a serious threat to beat anybody ... who knows what will happen as the regular season winds down and the excitement of post-season play heats up.

 

As always, the 10th Region will be tremendously exciting, first in district tournament play, then in the Regional Tourney.

Big win for the Fillies.