DUNLAP, Tenn. – When facing the top seed in the district tournament, the game plan is to give yourself the best chance of pulling off an upset. By any means necessary.
With that in mind, Chattanooga Christian girls’ basketball coach Laura Cottrell decided the best chance her team had of knocking off Bledsoe County in Friday night’s District 7-AA semifinals was to hold the ball. Throughout all four quarters.
That game plan nearly worked. The Lady Chargers trailed by just two points midway through the fourth quarter before a quick scoring flurry by Bledsoe County led to a 15-7 win for the Lady Warriors.
“For us to only be down by just two in the fourth quarter, with a chance to be right there down the stretch, that was exactly why I felt like we had to do that,” Cottrell said. “They’re just bigger and stronger than us in the post, and they proved that the last time we played them, so we had to find a different approach. We had to keep the ball out of their hands as much as possible.”
Bledsoe County (17-12) will face second-seeded Signal Mountain in tonight’s championship game. Signal Mountain beat Notre Dame 49-37 in Friday’s other semifinal.