MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — After trailing at halftime, Arts & Sciences girls’ basketball team used a strong third quarter to take control and claimed a 58-39 victory over Scotts Hill in the quarterfinals of the Class A state tournament Wednesday afternoon.
Lady Patriots’ leading scorer Kayla Kelly was held scoreless in the first half, but with 5:52 left in the third she converted a steal into a three-point play that put the Lady Patriots up for the first time since the opening minute of the second quarter.
She finished with 10 points.
A 13-0 run in the final 3:55 of the third quarter put CSAS ahead by nine, and it continued the scoring run into the fourth, holding the Lady Lions without a field goal for eight minutes before Brittany Montgomery’s 3-pointer with 4:21 remaining. By that time, CSAS had built its lead to 12 and the cushion remained in double-digits the rest of the way.
CSAS will play the Moore County-Wayne County winner in Friday’s semifinal at 12:30 at Middle Tennessee State University’s Murphy Center.
For more on this story read Thursday’s Times Free Press Sports section.
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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