Loretto Wins Lauderdale County Inv.!

[score3]

For the second year in a row, the Loretto Lady Mustangs are the champs of the Lauderdale County Invitational, which hosts some of the best teams from Alabama. I don't know much about how this game went, so I'll let someone else tell how it went. Congratulations Lady Mustangs!!!!!

[4MUSTANGS]

ACTUAL SCORE LORETTO-72, DESHLER-65

NORTHWEST ALABAMA GIRLS CHRISTMAS TOURNMENT FINALS!

 

LORETTO WINS IN OVERTIME, DEFEATS CURRENTLY RANKED #1 4A DESHLER

 

(ALABAMA). DESHLER HAS WON THE PREVIOUS TWO STATE TITLES IN 4A ALABAMA.

 

THE TWO TEAMS WERE TIED 15-15 AFTER THE FIRST QUARTER.

 

IT WAS EITHER TIED AT THE HALF OR A ONE POINT GAME.

 

LORETTO LEAD 60-57 WITH 8 SECONDS TO PLAY, DESHLER HIT A 3 POINTER ON

 

BUZZER TO SEND THE GAME INTO OVERTIME. LORETTO JUMPED OUT TO THE

 

LEAD AND NEVER LOOKED BACK.

 

I DONT HAVE ACTUAL SCORING FOR THE GIRLS BUT JANA CROSS HAD HER

 

FOURTH CONSECUTIVE NIGHT OF BIG SCORING. MON-26PTS, TUE-26PTS

 

WED-29PTS.

 

JANA WASN'T THE ONLY LADY MUSTANG LEADING THE TEAM, PAIGE HANNAH,

 

NIKKI REED,LAURA BIRYSHAW, LEAH STONE AND CHANNING FRANKLIN ALL

 

HAD GREAT GAMES ON BOTH OFFENSE AND DEFENSE. SARA BREWER PLAYED

 

WELL IN LIMITED ACTION. GREAT JOB TO ALL ELEVEN LADY MUSTANGS.

Edited December 31, 2004 by 4MUSTANGS

[4MUSTANGS]

SCORING STATS

 

JANA CROSS-34 PTS 26 REBS

 

BIRDYSHAW--9PTS

 

NIKKI REED--9PTS

 

PAIGE HANNAH-7PTS

 

GREEN-7PTS

 

FRANKLIN-4PTS

 

STONE-1PT

 

 

LORETTO 15 17 12 16 12 72

DESHLER 15 14 15 16 5 65

[Magid]

SCORING STATS

 

JANA CROSS-34 PTS    26 REBS

 

 

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26 Boards?? in the whole tourney or one game?

[4MUSTANGS]

JANA HAD 26 REBOUNDS LAST NIGHT IN THE FINALS.

 

SHE HAD 72 REBOUNDS IN THE FOUR TOURNAMENT GAMES TO GO WITH THE

 

115 POINTS.

Edited December 31, 2004 by 4MUSTANGS

[score3]

JANA CROSS-34 PTS    26 REBS

 

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That's not a good game, that's domination folks. Great job ladies!

[PageMan]

Congratulations Loretto Lady Mustangs on your great wins in this tournament, especially over Deshler, and to Jana Cross for her points and rebounds. Thanks for the reports, score3 and 4MUSTANGS. So, I guess I better add up Jana's points and see how close she's getting to 1500 for her career. I think Loretto returns to district play at Marshall Co. on Fri., Jan 7 and then will be seeking revenge against Giles Co. on the next Fri., Jan 14. I'll probably make the trip to Loretto for that game as I'm sure Loretto will be ready for the Lady Bobcats.

[ntd4lhs]

Did you check her points pageman? how close is she?

[PageMan]

I'll try to check later, Nick. I'm in the process of doing some reports for Page's games with Lewis Co. on Friday. I'm sure somebody from Loretto has the info.

[ntd4lhs]

Thank you.

[score3]

According to game stat totals given by PageMan, and tournament score reports by 4MUSTANGS, Jana has 1,190 points right now (January 5th). She is well on pace for 2,000 if she keeps this up.

 

I might also add I have entered all scoring information into the Loretto Stats page. Here's a link to it Loretto Stats This shows average points/game, and total points. Mrs. Cross is averaging 22.1 points/game as of now. (I might also add 22 was her number in elementary basketball). Just thought I would pass that along.

Edited January 6, 2005 by score3

[PageMan]

Thanks, score3, I knew you would know. With approximately 13 regular season games remaining for Loretto, and if Jana scores 20 pts a game, that would give her 260 pts more. Adding that to the present (Jan. 5) total of 1190 would give her 1450 as she enters post season play starting with the district tournament on Feb. 21. I would guess she will pass 1500 in either the district or regional tournaments.