LEXINGTON, Ky (WTVQ) - When the day started, eight teams had dreams of continuing their road to a KHSAA Girls' Sweet 16 title. By the time they turned the nights out at Rupp, only four teams punched their ticket to the quarterfinals.
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C1 3 the quarterfinals?
Game one of the day...marshall county and pikeville.
Kenzie maynard in the post.
Time to go to work.
Look at the footwork.
She scores.
She finished with 12 points, 8 rebounds and 5 blocks.
Cayson conner drives...stops..pop.
Jumper rolls in.
She had a game-high 22 points, 5 assists.
Trinity rowe splits the defenders...avoids contact...scoop shot falls.
She led pikeville with 18 points, 7 assists.
Conner feeds sophie galloway.
Short jumper rattles home.
She had 4 points, 8 boards.
Marshall would lead by double digits...pikeville kept fighting.
Lady marshalls hold on to beat pikeville, 56 to 52.
Two legit teams playing each other in the second game.
Bullitt east and bethlehem.
4q bethlehem's ella thompson.
Pops open for three and hits.
Led all scorers with 25 points.bethlehem up four back down comes bullitt.
Chargers feed gracie merkle...all 6 foot 6 of her...she makes it a two point game.
She had 27 points.18 rebounds.
Less than 30 seconds left.chargers down four.
Lilly reid knocks down a huge three off the inbound.
One point game.
Bethlehem hits two from the line.
Chargers with a shot to tie.
Reid missess.bethlehem closes it out with more free throws the banshees of bethlehem win 70-65 jason clark "it was a hard-fought game.
Coach stallings he done a great job.
Their kids played hard.
I kept telling the girls in the timeout, it was going to come down to who wanted it the most and who made the plays down the stretch and we're grateful we made the right plays when we had to."
Third game...henderson county taking on apollo.
1h apollos amaya curry gets the hand off crosses over and finishes with a pretty floater..
She had 8 points.
2h henderson's sadie wurth gets open at the top of the key knocks home the three.
She had 13 points, 5 assists.
Shelbie beatty driving and hits her with the hesitation and finishes strong to the hole beatty led the e- gals with 11.
Wurth dribbling to the cup...she had some hesitation action hesitation of her own and finishes off the glass lady colonels beat apollo, 55 to 31.
Final game of the day.
Russell versus dixie heights.
2q samantha berman drives.
Shots fall and one!
She had 9.
Dixie heights down 9 at half.
3q madelyn lawson from midrange.
Good.
She had 11 dixie heights now down 7, but here comes russell.
Kaeli ross feeds aubrey hill.
Easy bucket.
She led all scorers with 22.
Off the inbound.
Shaelyn steele from midrange.
Falls.
She had 18 points, 6 rebounds, 6 blocks.
And then the knockout punch.
Ross calmly from the corner for three.
No doubt.
She had 7 points.
Russell's lead was back to 14 and that slammed the door shut.
Russell beats dixie heights, 58 to 44.
Mandy layne "we felt like we waited a year for this.
We didn't get to play last year and i know how excited our kids were.
I was really proud of how we shot there in the first quarter.
We were 8 for 12 in the first quarter and once again our defense ruled.
I thought our defense was outstanding tonight."
The final eight teams are set.
Left side of your bracket.
Sacred heart versus bowling green at 11.
Franklin county versus anderson county at 2.
The nightcaps... marshall county and bethlehem at 5 last game of the day henderson county vs.
