MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — For the fourth consecutive season, Cleveland’s bid for a state championship ended before advancing to the title game. Millington’s Jasmine Newsome’s 13 points led her team to a 41-38 victory over the Lady Blue Raiders in a TSSAA Class AAA girls’ basketball tournament semifinal tonight.
Millington set the pace early, taking a 13-2 lead, but Cleveland slowly closed the gap, getting within one on Morgan Isom’s 3-pointer with 16 seconds left in the first half.
The third-ranked Lady Raiders never trailed by more than five in the second half and got as close as one twice. They also had possession, trailing by two, three times in the fourth quarter but could never draw even.
See Saturday’s Times Free Press for more coverage.
Stephen has covered high school sports in the tri-state area since the early 1990s, starting at the News-Free Press as a 19-year-old reporter. He has been with the Times Free Press since its inception and has been an assistant sports editor for more than seven years. Stephen is among the most decorated writers in the TFP’s newsroom, winning numerous state and regional awards for his writing on high school athletics. He has two children, Riley ...
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