The Cascade Lady Champions picked up their first district win of the season on Saturday afternoon, controlling the Grundy County Lady Yellowjackets, 59-49, in a wire-to-wire victory.
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The Cascade Lady Champions picked a good time to get their first district win of the season on Saturday as they went on the road to defeat the Grundy County Lady Yellow Jackets, 59-49.
Lady Champs’ head coach Janie Demonbreum’s squad came in with a near-perfect game plan in the wire-to-wire matinee victory, becoming only the second team all season to hold the Grundy County offense to less than 50 points in a game.
The game was moved to Saturday afternoon because of weather conditions that caused Grundy County schools to close on Friday.
Kaydence Miller led Cascade with a 16 point, 10 rebound, double-double performance. Sophie Ray corralled eight rebounds to go with her 15 points, including nine points in the second half, and Kaegan Young finished with 12 points after going into the half with only a single point. Miller also had four assists.
With the 2 p.m. tip-off time, Cascade came out the gate running on all cylinders despite being the visitors. After drawing two early fouls on Grundy’s freshman star Kallie Parson, the Lady Champs ended the first quarter up 18-5, getting just about any look they wanted around the basket against the Lady Yellowjackets’ defense.
The visitors kept up their vigorous start, forcing a timeout from Grundy County as the Lady Champs extended their lead to 26-11 with four and a half minutes left in the first half.
Coming out of the timeout, the Lady Yellow Jackets responded with a 9-2 run of their own to close out the second quarter, going into the locker room down 28-20 at halftime.
In the second half, Grundy County started to find their groove, getting within three points, 32-29, only three minutes and ten seconds into the quarter. However, the Lady Champs showed the mental fortitude that Coach Demonbreum has been talking about all season as they responded with a 11-4 run of their own to close out the third quarter to go up 43-33.
Cascade would go up by as much as 15 points in the final frame, 50-35, before Grundy County went on a run to cut it to eight with about two minutes to go. Unfortunately for the home side, it was too little too late, and the Lady Champs walked out of Coalmont with a very impressive ten point district win.
Grundy County’s second half resurgence was due in large part to their dynamic duo of Carlee Smart and Kallie Parson getting going. Smart had 14 points in the second half, finishing with 19 for the game, and Parson finished with 12 points after only scoring one free throw in the opening 16 minutes.
Grundy County falls to 10-4 (1-1) on the season. They are scheduled to travel to Van Buren on Tuesday night for a non-district contest, weather permitting.
The Lady Champions improve to 7-12 (1-2) and are scheduled to travel to Chapel Hill on Tuesday night to continue district play, weather permitting, LIVE on WZNG Radio, The Zinger 100.9 and AM 1400.
