After flying high against Tennessee last Friday, Elizabethton came back down to earth. The Elizabethton Fighting Cyclones took a blow against the Morristown-Hamblen East Hurricanes on Wednesday, falling 79-52. While losing is never fun, the Fighting Cyclones can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee basketball rankings (they are ranked 136th, while the Hurricanes are ranked 12th).
Morristown-Hamblen East was led to victory by Harmony Sullivan and Hannah Hall. Sullivan went 12-for-18 en route to 27 points in addition to six assists and three steals, while Hall went 9-for-13 to rack up 19 points and seven steals. Sullivan's evening made it five games in a row in which she has scored at least 15 points. Hudson Cloninger was another key player, putting up seven points and three steals.
Elizabethton's defeat dropped their record down to 11-14. As for Morristown-Hamblen East, they are on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 23-5 record this season.
Coming up, Elizabethton is taking a road trip to face off against Tennessee at 3:00 p.m. on February 22nd. As for Morristown-Hamblen East, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next contest, a 64-52 loss against Bearden on the 13th.
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