Gallatin’s Lady Bulldogs won their second Grand River Conference game of the season and first league tilt since early January by holding off Princeton, 41-37, last night at home.
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Gallatin’s Lady Bulldogs won their second Grand River Conference game of the season and first league tilt since early January by holding off Princeton, 41-37, last night at home. With the victory, Gallatin, 2-4, keeps its hopes alive for a .500 finish in the conference.
The Lady Bulldogs travel to King City Thursday to face a Lady Wildkat team that recently took Maysville into overtime, but has yet to claim a conference win. Gallatin closes out its GRC slate at home on Friday against a tough Stanberry squad coming off last night’s overtime loss to Worth County.
Hamilton’s girls find themselves one league win away from capturing their first GRC title in over 20 years. The Lady Hornets demolished Maysville last night in a battle of once-beaten squads, and need only get past South Harrison this Friday to win the title outright.
Gallatin closed out Tuesday night’s win at the free throw line. Trisha Sprague pulled down a defensive rebound, drew a foul and hit both ends of a bonus with 55 seconds left. Kelsie Parker converted one of two attempts late to produce the final margin.
The Lady Bulldogs led by seven points with just under four minutes to play but had to fight off a scenario eerily similar to last Friday night when they could not hold off a visiting team. Princeton pulled to within 38-37 with two minutes to play but Gallatin turned up the defensive pressure and blanked the Tigers the rest of the way.
Sprague dueled Princeton’s 6′ center, Jill Hamilton, for scoring honors. The GHS sophomore nailed three three-pointers and finished with 17 points. Hamilton proved to be effective at times from the low post, where she cashed in 16 points for the visitors.
SHHS rallies late
South Harrison’s girls erased a seven-point fourth quarter deficit to hand Gallatin its fourth GRC loss by a 37-35 margin on Friday. Both teams had to sidestep foul trouble on their way to the finish line. Gallatin led, 32-25, heading into the final period but managed only a free throw and field goal in the last eight minutes.
Gallatin led nearly all the way. A 7-0 run, sparked by a Lindsey Robertson three-pointer, Brittney Hixson two-pointer and Trisha Sprague putback bucket, set the early tone. South Harrison took a brief lead in the second quarter but Kinsey Batson came off the bench to nail a trey from the top of the key to start Gallatin on another run. Keira Story canned a basket off a Katie Ward feed to give the GHS girls a 26-17 cushion early in the third period.
Shelby Shipers dumped in a pair of free throws to tie the game, 33-33, with 2:52 left. A Marissa Daniel putback gave Gallatin a two-point deficit, but Ward scored off the baseline to knot the score again.
Tiffany Graham scored in the lane to put South Harrison back in front, and a controversial five- second call on a GHS in-bounds play seemingly gave the visitors the break they needed to hold on. Sprague rebounded a missed bonus shot with seven seconds left but a South Harrison steal preserved the SHHS victory.
Ward finished with 12 points for Gallatin. Graham paced South Harrison with 10.