MSJHS 8th grade girls’ basketball finishes season in fourth at IESA State Tournment
By FRED KRONER
Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade girls’ basketball team came home from Normal Parkside on Thursday (Dec. 14) with a fourth-place IESA state finish.
The Bulldogs held an early lead against Bolingbrook Jane Addams, but wound up on the short end of a 38-22 score.
M-S led 8-6 after one quarter, but fell behind, 16-13, at halftime.
Penelope Bird and Charlotte Sinclair each scored six points for the Bulldogs.
Katie Hunter and Lilly Meyer both nailed three-point shots and wound up with three points apiece.
Faith Benedict and Marley Cloward each tallied two points.
M-S closes the season with a 20-10 overall record and tied the best state finish by an eighth-grade girls’ basketball team from the school. Also placing fourth was the 2001 M-S squad.
For the year, Sinclair led the team in scoring, or shared the team lead, in 10 games. Bird was the leader in nine games.
In all, seven players led the Bulldogs in scoring at least once. Other team leaders were Cloward, Hunter, Lily Freiman and Audra Martin, all of whom led in four games. Kennedy Ashby led in one game.
Top individual performances for the year were 15 points by Bird and 14 by Ashby.
The team’s most accurate free throw shooters were Bird (60 percent), Ashby (57.1 percent) and Hunter (54.5 percent).
Fourteen players scored points during the season, led by Bird (175), Sinclair (146), Cloward (102), Martin (102), Hunter (96), Ashby (79) and Freiman (72).
