Four ticks of the clock were all the Lady Broncos needed to put in a game-winning shot in the Area Round at Canyon High School against a good New Deal team. The Lady Broncos won 41-40 and advanced to the Regional Quarterfinals against Panhandle.
Seven points was the biggest lead in the back and forth battle. The Lady Broncos led by that amount early in the fourth quarter, but New Deal’s three-points shooters struck hard to recapture the lead with only a minute left in the game. Clarendon then committed a foul that put New Deal on the line and failed to convert giving the ladies just a few seconds to score.
After a timeout called by Clarendon’s Coach Korey Conkin, the ladies set up with only four seconds left in the game. New Deal was most likely looking to stop the three, when senior Makayla Brown two-hand passed the ball like a rocket to Jade Benson near the lane. Benson took the ball and put in an off-balance turn around jump shot that was nothing but net to give the ladies the win.
Scoring were Benson 16, Ashlyn Crawford 8, Matte Johnson 6, Brown 6, Kaylin Hicks 3, and Kira Weatherton 2.
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