![]() Parker scored seven points and had four rebounds. Jazz scored nine points and garnered nine rebounds despite limited minutes in the first half and fouling out late in the game. Hernandez followed with 11 points, including three big three-pointers and five rebounds. She was often a spark in keeping the Spartans in the game on both offense and defense. She led the team with 14 points on four of five shooting from the field and five of seven from the charity stripe. The Spartans fell 57-51 in OT.Ĭheeves played one of her best games of the season. ![]() In overtime, Tompkins shots started falling and the Stratford-six of Hernandez, Jazz, Ashby, Horton, juniors Maggie Parker and JaKyla Cheeves , who played the vast majority of the minutes in the game, had tired legs that always make shots more difficult. Had they called the obvious foul, it would have put the excellent free-throw shooting Ashby on the line with no time on the clock and a tie game. Ashby attempted to control the loose ball only to be tackled and nearly injured by a Tompkins player at the buzzer. The refs swallowed their whistles. Tompkins got free in the open court and drove to the basket with time to score, only to arrive face-to-face with sophomore Holly Horton, who blocked the shot with impunity. The Spartans turned up the defensive pressure, the Falcons failed to make their shots, and Stratford clawed back. With approximately two minutes remaining, Hernandez hit a three from the right corner to tie at 45 apiece.ĭown 2 points with the clock ticking and Tompkins defense cutting off the Spartans three-point shooters, Jazz received the ball on the right wing, drove to the basket where the defense met her, executed a spin move from just outside the lane and lofted in a six-footer to tie the score (47-47) with 6.9 seconds on the clock. In the span of three minutes, Tompkins held a nine-point lead early in the 4th. With two minutes remaining in the 3rd quarter, the Falcons held a one-point lead. ![]() Nevertheless, the Falcons climbed back to keep it close in the first half, especially after Jazz went to the bench with two early fouls. The Spartans defense played as good of a game as they have all season, holding Tompkins to near its season low in points scored in regulation. Mahmoodpour promptly drained a trey from the corner, igniting her coaches, teammates, and everyone in the Merrell Center who was wearing green. Head Coach Alexis Greene used a tight rotation throughout the game and it clicked, but early in the game she went to the bench for senior Nilou Mahmoodpour, who was injured last year and has not played significant minutes this season in her rehabilitation. The Spartans opened the game with big three-point shots from senior Audrey Hernandez and freshman Rachel Ashby, and took a 14-8 lead after Hernandez found senior Jasmine Green under the basket againat the shell-shocked Falcons. ![]() The Stratford Spartans Girls Basketball team played inspired Friday night at the Merrell Center in Katy in its second-round playoff game against a Tompkins team that had 31 wins and only three losses. Ideally, a team peaks at the end of the season and plays its best game in its last game, which hopefully comes in the post-season.
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