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03-09-2012, 09:22 PM
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Butler High School girls’ basketball coach Larry Just had talked for much of the season about his team’s problem with consistency.
The Bearettes would have their lulls.
On Friday, Butler saw its season end because of a slow start and several other bad stretches as Paul Dunbar tagged the Bearettes with a 70-52 defeat in the quarterfinals of the Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls’ Sweet 16 in Diddle Arena.
“You saw it again,” Just said. “That’s been us. There have been two basketball games all year long that I would say we played from start to finish.
“The rest of it has been that we have our runs and then we have our breakdowns. We started the game with more breakdowns and credit them for making the plays. We got our runs but we were just not able to keep them down (shooting) very well.”
Dunbar, the 11th Region champions, used a 13-4 run late in the first quarter to gain control of the game. The Lady Bulldogs had an 8-0 run late in the second quarter to extend the lead and then hit 13 of 20 fourth-quarter free throws to seal it.
The Lady Bulldogs (30-6) were unranked coming into the Sweet 16 but have now taken out No. 5 Boone County and the No. 19 Bearettes (24-10).
“These kids don’t care about who expected them to be here,” first-year Dunbar coach Sarah Van Horn said. “They just want to win. These kids expected this from. When I went into that first parent meeting, they said we’re going to the state tournament.”
Paul Dunbar has won 11 of its last 12 games and will now face No. 1 Manual and Saturday’s 11 a.m. semifinal. The state championship game will be held at 9 o’clock.
The Lady Bulldogs are making just the second appearance at the Sweet 16 for the school. They lost to eventual champion Hazard in the 1997 semifinals.
“This is great for this group and for Dunbar Nation,” Van Horn said. “It’s just hard to put in words how we feel. We are excited but we are not satisfied. They came down here with a goal and that was to win.”
Morgan McEldowney scored 16 of her 21 points for Dunbar, which hit 20 of 42 field goals and 27 of 35 free throws, in the first half. Kierra Muhammad added 18 points, while sophomore Brooke Todd tacked on 14 points and six rebounds.http://www.courier-journal.com/article/2...ext|Sports
The Bearettes would have their lulls.
On Friday, Butler saw its season end because of a slow start and several other bad stretches as Paul Dunbar tagged the Bearettes with a 70-52 defeat in the quarterfinals of the Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls’ Sweet 16 in Diddle Arena.
“You saw it again,” Just said. “That’s been us. There have been two basketball games all year long that I would say we played from start to finish.
“The rest of it has been that we have our runs and then we have our breakdowns. We started the game with more breakdowns and credit them for making the plays. We got our runs but we were just not able to keep them down (shooting) very well.”
Dunbar, the 11th Region champions, used a 13-4 run late in the first quarter to gain control of the game. The Lady Bulldogs had an 8-0 run late in the second quarter to extend the lead and then hit 13 of 20 fourth-quarter free throws to seal it.
The Lady Bulldogs (30-6) were unranked coming into the Sweet 16 but have now taken out No. 5 Boone County and the No. 19 Bearettes (24-10).
“These kids don’t care about who expected them to be here,” first-year Dunbar coach Sarah Van Horn said. “They just want to win. These kids expected this from. When I went into that first parent meeting, they said we’re going to the state tournament.”
Paul Dunbar has won 11 of its last 12 games and will now face No. 1 Manual and Saturday’s 11 a.m. semifinal. The state championship game will be held at 9 o’clock.
The Lady Bulldogs are making just the second appearance at the Sweet 16 for the school. They lost to eventual champion Hazard in the 1997 semifinals.
“This is great for this group and for Dunbar Nation,” Van Horn said. “It’s just hard to put in words how we feel. We are excited but we are not satisfied. They came down here with a goal and that was to win.”
Morgan McEldowney scored 16 of her 21 points for Dunbar, which hit 20 of 42 field goals and 27 of 35 free throws, in the first half. Kierra Muhammad added 18 points, while sophomore Brooke Todd tacked on 14 points and six rebounds.http://www.courier-journal.com/article/2...ext|Sports
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