March 6, 2014
De Soto — Julianne Jackson scored 15 points in Bonner Springs High’s 46-38 sub-state victory over the Sumner Academy on Thursday night at De Soto High.
Miyah Hightower added eight points and Kyliea Jarrett had seven for the Lady Braves, who earned a No. 2 seed going into Thursday night after finishing the regular season 14-5.
The Lady Braves took an early lead in the first quarter near the four minute mark and never lost it.
The Sabres were held to just four points during the second quarter and ended the half down 21-11, but cut the lead to single digits with 2:24 left in the game after back-to-back three pointers.
Jackson scored a two-point bucket off of an inbound play late in the fourth quarter, that the Sabres followed with a layup to get within six with 55.8 seconds left.
A Sabres turnover prompted a full timeout from BSHS head coach Clay Oakes with 29.5 seconds remaining in the game.
Quick subsequent fouls put the Lady Braves’ Hightower at the free throw line to extend the lead to 46-38 and put the game out of reach for the Sabres.
“Well, we survived and moved on to the next round,” Oakes said. “It wasn’t pretty and we had a lot of things that we had to adapt to tonight.”
The Lady Braves’ roster remains thin without starter Kaleigh Taylor, who was sitting on the bench with a boot on her left foot Thursday night.
“That was a big shakeup for us so we had to adapt to that it was a little sloppy at times and at atimes we did things ok ,“ he said. “We are going to have to come out and relax (on Saturday) because we came out real tense and tight tonight and we know we didn’t play our best tonight but we will try and clean it up a little bit on Saturday and see what will happen there.”
BSHS will play Bishop Miege High on Saturday. Tip is scheduled for 6 p.m., with the winner advancing to the state tournament in Salina.
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