Lady Spartans use first-half 17-0 run, whip Lady Chargers
KNOXVILLE — Down 11-5 a little more than halfway through the first quarter, the Webb School of Knoxville girls basketball team doubled down on visiting Chattanooga Christian School Friday night, Jan. 12.
A 17-0 run put the Lady Spartans ahead 22-11 roughly 100 seconds into the second quarter. Webb (13-6) built on a 36-25 halftime advantage and pulled away in the second half for a 72-44 rout of the Lady Chargers (12-5) in both teams’ first Division II-AA East Region game of the season.
“I felt like if we could get going, get a couple of stops, that we’d be able to put together a little run and sort of push away from them,” Lady Spartans head coach Greg Hernandez said. “Our goal was to take No. 11 (eighth-grade star MoMo Moore) out of the game.”
Webb’s defense held Moore to 10 points, “well below her season average,” he added.
Sophomore forward Meeyah Green scored a game-high 18 points for Webb. “Meeyah Green was great, the way she was finishing around the basket,” Hernandez said.
Senior guard Katelyn Overton, pulling down a number of offensive rebounds, scored 14. “I was super proud of Katelyn’s effort,” her coach said.
Post Kyndall Mays, only an eighth-grader, contributed 12 points for the winners. Senior forward Brooklyn Bush scored nine and freshman Corisa Lowery added eight.
