The Allen
County-Scottsville Patriot and Lady Patriot basketball teams will play Saturday
in the semifinals of the Kentucky Legend 2A Section I Championships. The
Patriots advanced in the inaugural statewide event with a 77-75 overtime upset
of Warren Central on Monday. The Lady Patriots downed Franklin-Simpson 56-33
Tuesday evening to move forward in the tournament.
Owen Stamper’s career-high 22 points led
AC-S in Monday’s win over Warren Central. Brett Rippy added 21 points and
dished out a career-best eight assists. Jax Cooper scored a career-high 18
points. Cooper scored on a put back basket at the end of regulation to force
the extra four-minute period. Mason Shirley sank a 15-foot basket with 1.2
seconds left in the game to seal the win for the Patriots---the first over
Warren Central since February 19, 2008.
Tuesday, Mason Towery scored 19 points, grabbed
10 rebounds, and dished out six assists to help the Lady Patriots to the win.
Her double-double was the sixth of her four-year AC-S career. Sarah Sutton
added 17 points.
Sutton also surpassed the 2,000-point mark
for her career, joining Morgan Rich (2,433) as the only Allen
County-Scottsville student-athletes to have scored over 2,000 points. Earlier
this season, Sutton surpassed 1,000 rebounds thus making her the only Lady
Patriot player to have scored 2,000 points and grabbed 1,000 rebounds. Sutton
has played in a school-record 168 games and made 135 career starts, three
starts shy of the record for most starts in a career.
AC-S will play the winner of Thursday’s
Webster County/Caldwell County game in both the boys and girls bracket Saturday
at Hopkins County Central High School. Revised game times will be 4 p.m. for
the Lady Patriots and at 6 p.m. for the Patriots.
The Lady Patriots (13-3, 1-1) and Patriots (14-2,
2-0) will return to the court for a key District 15 game at Glasgow on Friday.
The Lady Scotties enter the game with a 12-3 overall record, 2-0 in District 15
play. The Scotties are 9-5 overall and 1-1 in district competition. Glasgow has
also advanced to the 2A Championships Section I semifinals Saturday. Hence, Saturday
wins by AC-S and Glasgow will result in the schools playing again on Sunday in
the Section I championship.
If the Lady Patriots and/or Patriots reach the
Section I finals Sunday, they will also advance to the 2A Championships’ state
tournament starting on January 18 in Owensboro.