West Morgan (Trinity, Ala.) basketball star
Hayden Hamby scored a career-high 56 points during a 78-74 double-overtime loss to Class 3A No. 2-ranked Danville (Ala.).
West Morgan's Hayden Hamby.
Photo by Janet Cavender
The loss, which came in the Area 15 portion of the state tournament, ended the Rebels' season at 20-9.
The 5-foot-7 junior tied her school's record and recorded what is believed to be a season high — for girls or boys — in the state.
Trevor Lacey scored 54 for Huntsville Butler earlier this year.
"We kept the ball in her hands pretty much all night," coach Keith Harris told MaxPreps. "The pace and intensity of the game were just unreal."
Hamby scored her team's last 24 points in the first half and its final 18 starting with 3:03 left in the fourth quarter. She forced the second overtime with a late 3-point basket. The only other player to score for the Rebels was
Hannah Harris with 18 points.
Division I colleges are beginning to take a good look at Hamby, who has a perfect 4.0 GPA.
* After posting a national-record 122-118 double-overtime victory against
West Marshall (State Center, Iowa) one week earlier,
Gladbrook-Reinbeck (Reinbeck, Iowa) defeated the same team in a much different state tournament matchup, 57-53.
* Cannon County (Woodbury, Tenn.) star
Emily Sissom has established a Tennessee state record for career 3-point baskets (363).
* Senior
Lindsey Hall tied the school record with 48 points as Wheatland-Chili (Scottsville, N.Y.) defeated Lyndonville (N.Y.), 62-41. She shot 19-for-30 from the field, had 12 steals and 11 rebounds.
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Jenn Anderson, a 6-2 sophomore, scored 42 points as Westfield (Ind.) defeated Fishers (Ind.), 61-54.
* Senior
Erica Schultz broke a 31-year-old school record when she grabbed 27 rebounds as Strongsville (Ohio) defeated Elyria (Ohio), 59-45.
* Steelton-Highspire (Steelton, Pa.) routed Milton-Hershey (Hershey, Pa.), 82-38, behind a career-high 42 points by sophomore guard
Malia Tate-DeFreitas. She also collected nine rebounds, seven assists and seven steals.
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Concordia Lutheran (Fort Wayne, Ind.) coach David Miller picked up his 300th career victory, 54-31, over New Haven (Ind.).
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