February 17, 2018
Girls 58th District Tournament begins Monday at Floyd Central
Langley, Ky. — After competing in the 60th District for three years Lawrence Co. (19-7) will open the Girls 58th District tournament as the #2 seed and will play #3 Betsy Layne (11-16) on Monday night at Floyd Central. Game time will be 6:00.
The Lady Dawgs and Floyd Central were both 4-2 in District action and split two regular season meetings with Floyd Central winning the coin toss for the #1 seed.
Lawrence Co. swept Betsy Layne in the regular season winning 59-57 on the road and 54-41 at home.
(Stats are through 24 games)
LCHS is led by sophomore Lexi Ratliff who is scoring 14 points per game and grabbing 7 rebounds per contest, senior Kendra Spaulding 13 and 5 rebounds and senior Hannah Rucker 9 points per game, plus a team leading 43 three pointers made, junior Kelly Davis is the team’s leading rebounder at 8.5 per contest and also chips in with 7.6 points per game.
Lawrence Co. comes in winning five out of six games.
Betsy Layne has won three straight games.
TO SEE LC SEASON STATS CLICK HERE
In the second game Monday night #1 seed and host Floyd Central ( 13-9 ) will play #4 seed Prestonsburg ( 12-17 ) the Lady Jaguars won both regular season matchups 67-53 at Home and 79-76 at Prestonsburg.
The 58th District Championship game will be Thursday night at 7:00.
Lady Bulldog Head Coach Melinda Feltner
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… The underdog role has played to our advantage the last couple years. We didn’t play very good our last game out and we just have to refocus.”
“… Betsy Layne is a very gritty team that plays extremely hard. They, like us, have 2 seniors that lead their team. Megan Frazier is their leading scorer averaging 19.7 points and 9.1 rebounds a game. We have to do a good job containing her and keeping her off the glass. Destiny Compton is another senior for them. She’s averaging 15.4 points per game and also 9 rebounds. They are also led by freshman point guard Caroline Ariaz who can cause lots of havoc on defense. These are the players we are focusing on stopping and it’s going to be a total team effort for us to stop them. These players crash the offensive glass hard and we have to do a better job of keeping them off the glass.”
“… We cannot turn the ball over, we must rebound, execute our plan defensively on their best scorers and offensively have to knock down shots in order to win the game. Our girls know we are in for a battle against them. We are excited for tournament play.”
