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Final
3/3/2012
Butler 59
Mercy 47
Butler 11 11 17 20 59
Mercy 12 9 10 16 47
6th region Championship Game at Knights Hall, Bellarmine University
Butler (23-9) -- Stallard 16, Lawerence 12, Smith 6, Moore 14, Martinez 6, Casey 2, Snyder 3.
Mercy (27-6) -- Co. Roush 7, Ch. Roush 11, Hartlage 9, Richardson 13, Dircksen 5, Stilger 3.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/11/23/15374...rylink=cpy
Wow,thought Mercy would contend for the state title.
Butler, ranked 23rd in Dave Cantrall's Rating the State, outscored No. 4 Mercy by seven in the third quarter and went on to defeat the Jaguars 59-47 in the 6th Region girls' championship game at Bellarmine University.

Alexis Stallard led Butler (23-9) with 16 points and four rebounds, and Cora Moore had 14 points and four assists.

Kayla Richardson had 12 points, six rebounds and three assists for Mercy (27-6).

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/03/20943...rylink=cpy
he reigning queens of Sixth Region girls’ basketball would not give up their crown.

Considered a heavy underdog, Butler High School got a composed performance from its senior backcourt and never trailed in the second half of a 59-47 victory over Mercy in the final of the Class Act Sixth Region Tournament at Bellarmine University’s Knights Hall.

A perennial Seventh Region power, Mercy moved to the Sixth Region this year and was the consensus pick to win the title. Instead, Butler (23-9) won its third straight regional and sixth in 10 years.

“Nobody expected us to win,” junior Alexis Stallard said, “so we just went out there and took it.”

Stallard scored a game-high 16 points as the Bearettes advanced to face the Fourth Region champion (Glasgow or Monroe County) in Wednesday’s 1 p.m. EDT opener of the Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls’ Sweet 16 in Bowling Green, Ky.

Senior Cora Moore added 14 points, hitting all three of her 3-point tries, and Danielle Lawrence pitched in 12 points and six rebounds. Moore and fellow senior MacKenzie Martinez teamed for nine assists and six turnovers against a Mercy team that prides itself on pressure defense and converting turnovers into easy baskets.

“We’ve been working on traps since Mercy beat us,” Moore said of Butler’s 65-56 loss to the Jaguars on Jan. 13. “That’s been our main focus in practices.”

Kayla Richardson had 12 points, six rebounds, three assists and two blocks to lead Mercy (27-6), No. 4 in The Courier-Journal’s Litkenhous Ratings. Christine Roush, the Sixth Region’s Player of the Year, added 11 points but fouled out with 4:21 left in the game.

Jaguars coach Mark Evans gave the credit to Butler.

“They just manhandled us,” he said. “They earned every bit of it. When they wanted to go to the hole, by God, they went to the hole. … It wasn’t lack of effort. When it got a bit tough, we got tight.”

Butler led 22-21 at halftime and took control with a 13-4 run that started with a Lawrence 3-pointer, making it 33-27 at the 3:01 mark of the third quarter.

http://saxo.highschoolsports.net/article...le&Avis=B2