The Whiteface Lady Lopes saw their season end with a 47-39 loss to the Nazareth Swiftettes in the regional semi-final round of the UIL Girls’ High School Basketball Playoffs last Friday at the Texan Dome on the campus of South Plains College in Levelland.
The game went back and forth in the first quarter with Nazareth drawing first blood at the 7:31 mark, the Emma Ayers tied the score at two each 30 second later.
Nazareth went up 3-2 when Iris Schilderink hit one of two free throws after being fouled at the 6:12 mark.
Allison Martha returned the favor on the next Whiteface possession, hitting two-o- two for a 4-3 lead with 5:49 left in the first quarter.
Nazareth was leading 7-4 at the 3:39 mark and 9-7 with just over two minutes left in the frame when a Martha steal and lay-up tied the score.
The Swiftettes went up 11-9, but Martha answered with a trey for a 12-11 lead with just under two minutes left in the quarter.
The score went back-andforth over the last two minutes. Martha hit a trey for a 17-14 lead with just 18 seconds left, but a desperation shot by Nazareth’s Brooklyn Birkenfeld made the score 17-16 for the Lady Lopes at the buzzer.
The second quarter was all Nazareth as the only score Whiteface could manage was a three-point shot from Martha at the top of the arc with 2:18 left in the half.
The teams went to the locker room with Nazareth lead, 26-20.
Nazareth opened the third quarter with a trey for a 29-20 lead just 45 seconds into the period.
Whiteface was able to climb to within six, 31-25, at the six minute mark, but that was as close as they could get.
The quarter ended with the Lady Lopes trailing 40-30.
Nazareth opened the fourth quarter with a 6-0 run. The Lady Lopes outscored Nazareth 7-3 over the last five minutes, but it wasn’t enough for the win.
Martha led the Lady Lopes with 21 points. Jaedyn Rector and Ayers had seven each. Tymmyah Olenga had four.
Roughettes
The Sundown Roughettes met the Panhandle Pantherettes in the semi-final round of the Regional Tournament and lost 60-27.
Sundown scored first, but quickly fell behind as the defensive rotations from Panhandle disrupted the offense. This allowed the Pantherettes to push the tempo and find gaps in the Roughettes defense for open looks, which Panhandle rarely missed.
The first quarter ended with Sundown trailing, 21-8.
The Roughettes fared a little better in the second, with an 11 point offensive effort but on defense Sundown struggled to keep up rotations fast enough to stop the Panterette offense and the halftime score was 40-19 in favor of Panhandle.
The defense fared better in the third and fourth quarters, holding Panhandle to 10 in each quarter but the offense never got on track, scoring only six in the third and two in the fourth to end the season on a 60-27 loss.
The Roughettes had a very successful season after a tentative start, going 26-9, finishing second in the district and making a Semifinal Regional Playoff appearance.
Panthers
The Whitharral Panthers’ basketball season ended Thursday with a 67-57 loss to 15 th ranked Lorenzo in the area round of the UIL Boys’ High School Basketball Playoffs at Lubbock Cooper High school.
Lorenzo relied on a 37 point performance from Jakari Davis-Mitchell in the win.
The Hornets took a 4-0 lead early and led 12-4 five minutes into the game. Whitharral came back to within three on a trey from Jack Griffin, followed by a basket from Jarrett Fryar, cutting the Hornets’ lead to 12-9 with 1:34 left in the first quarter.
Lorenzo answered with another run that put them up 1710 at the end of the first quarter.
Three minutes into the second quarter, Davis had the Hornets up 20-10. A three point shot from Jeryn Ellerd cut the Lorenzo lead to seven, but the Hornets answered with their own trey.
Whitharral cut the lead to 2419 with 2:52 remaining on a basket from Robinson, another trey from Ellerd and a free-throw from Kaden Smith against a single freethrow from the Hornets Lorenzo answered with a 10-2 run to end the half leading 34-21.
The third quarter opened with Lorenzo pulling away. They led 42-25 just a minute and a half into the period.
The Panthers clawed their way back to within 10 with about a minute left in the period, but a 90 run by Davis put the Hornets up 53-34 at the end of the third period.
The Hornets outscored the Panthers 7-2 over the first two and a half minutes of the fourth, then Whitharral made a 15-0 run over the next four minutes to close within nine at 60-51.
That was as close as they could get.
Smith led the Panthers with 12 points. Robinson had 11. Ellerd, Fryar and Shamadrick Weaver had nine each. Jack Griffin had seven.
Antelopes
The Whiteface Antelopes took a 16-2 lead in the first quarter and cruised to a 60-40 win over the Spur Bulldogs in UIL Boys’ High School Basketball Area Playoff action last Thursday at Roosevelt High school.
Spur was able to outscore the Antelopes 12-10 in the second quarter, but Whiteface came out hot in the third quarter and put the Bulldogs away, leading 48-24 when the frame ended.
Brighton Scoggins led the Antelopes with 22 points. Noah Rendon had 15. Jeremias Chavez had 12. Noah Rector had eight and Ethan Kauffman had two.