Saint Jo vs Prairie Valley
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers ran away with a one-sided win at Prairie Valley on Friday.
The Lady Panthers won 76-26 against a Lady Bulldog team that just seemed overwhelmed at times.
Saint Jo employed a press defense with trapping that seemed to give Prairie Valley ball handlers fits.
It also created several transition opportunities for the Lady Panthers that led to easy layups.
While the Lady Bulldogs initially did well enough to only fall behind 19-9 after the first quarter, but Saint Jo scored 25 points in both the second and third quarter to pull away before eventually calling off the press.
Prairie Valley did a good job of limiting the Lady Panthers to only three points in the final period, but could not score enough to make up the massive deficit as Saint Jo won 72-26.
Payzlie Cervantes led the team with 30 points while Taylor Patrick was second with 16 points and Kyler Dunn joined them in double-figures with 11 points.
For Prairie Valley, Makaylee Gomez led the team with 13 points while Sara Horton was second with 10 points.

Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians passed their biggest challenge in district so far with flying colors when they traveled to Seymour on Friday.
The Lady Indians won 50-31 against the Lady Panthers.
Nocona came in still undefeated on the year 25-0 and ranked among the top, and in some polls the top, teams in the state in 2A.
Seymour came into the game following a tough one-point loss to Petrolia as the Lady Panthers are also ranked among the top 25 teams in the state.
Still, Nocona could not afford to take them lightly and didn’t from the jump. While the pace was much slower than what the Lady Indians like to play at, defensively Nocona shut down Seymour in the first half.
The Lady Panthers scored only nine points in the first half and Nocona led 22-9.
The second half saw the Lady Indians able to push the pace like they like it which did allow Seymour to score better as well, but not enough to make up the difference as Nocona’s lead grew more and more.
The Lady Indians won 50-31.
Megyn Meekins led all scorers with 27 points while Skyler Smith added 13 points and led the team with seven rebounds and four assists.
Aubree Kleinhans added six points and Reagan Phipps grabbed six rebounds to help out as well.

Gold-Burg vs Bellevue
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears won a big road game at Bellevue on Friday.
The Lady Bears won 38-31 against the Lady Eagles.
The first half was competitive as Bellevue led in the first quarter before Gold-Burg came back to wrestle a small lead 16-15 at halftime.
The Lady Bears were able to take control in the second half despite it being a low-scoring game overall.
Gold-Burg led 25-20 heading into the fourth quarter before both team’s offenses picked up in the final period, but the Lady Bears came out on top 38-31.
For Gold-Burg Shadie Whitaker led the team with 13 points while Madison Fulmer was second with six points on two made 3-pointers.
For the Lady Eagles, Brittany Gill led the team with 11 points while Callie Martin was second with six points.