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Kentucky All-Stars girls coach Stacy Pendleton wanted a test and got one — for a half.The All-Stars dominated the second half to defeat the juniors 106-77 at Trinity High School on Wednesday night after romping by 30 over a team with some of the same players Tuesday in Lexington. This time the juniors led 42-33 before the seniors rallied for a 51-46 halftime edge, then blew it open in the second half.
Pendleton, the Manual High coach, is preparing his team to meet Indiana in the annual two-game series starting Friday in Freedom Hall.
“Last night down there in Lexington we beat them pretty good,” he said. “... We missed a lot of shots (tonight) and should have been up more. I think the kids that they added gave them some more bulk, size to rebound with us. This group probably will mirror what Indiana will bring on Friday.”
Miss Basketball Sydney Moss led all scorers with 20 points, 13 in the second half.
“Sydney is a great representative for Miss Basketball,” Pendleton said of the Florida signee from Boone County. “She’s really selfless and plays so hard. She’s a team player. She’s almost a team player to a fault. Tonight I thought she was very assertive. She’s a humble kid, and she can flat play.”
“We play real good as a team,” Moss said. “Knowing each other and how we play kind of helps.”
Jasmine Whitfield of South Oldham added 16 points, including a 3-pointer for the halftime margin.
The juniors got 17 points from Becca Greenwell of Owensboro Catholic.http://saxo.highschoolsports.net/article...le&avis=B2

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FROM DAVE SATTERLY, DIRECTOR OF THE KENTUCKY ALL-STAR OPERATIONS:

Date: 6/7/2012 8:30:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email]satkai@aol.com[/email]



Girls game

The Kentucky All-Stars trailed by nine points late in the first half
but rallied to upend a collection of Kentucky's top incoming juniors,
106-77.

Boone County's Sydney Moss, Kentucky's 2012 Miss Basketball and a
University of Florida signee, led the Kentucky All-Stars with a
game-high 20 points.

South Oldham's Jasmine Whitfield added 16 points, Hopkinsville's
Christy Soldo chipped in 14 and Perry County Central's Kendall Noble 13
for the All-Stars, who will clash with the Indiana All-Stars in a 5:30
match up Friday at Freedom Hall.

The Junior All-Stars got 17 points from Owensboro Catholic's Becca
Greenwell. Christian Academy's China Dow and Paducah Tilghman's Chelsey
Shumpert each added 12.

The All-Stars also defeated the Junior All-Stars by a similar margin --
86-56 -- Tuesday night in a scrimmage at Paul Dunbar High School in
Lexington.

BOX SCORES



Girls' game

KENTUCKY ALL-STARS - 51 - 55 -- 106

JUNIOR ALL-STARS - 46 - 31 -- 77

Kentucky All-Stars (106) - Sydney Moss (Boone County) 20, Lauren Bodine
(Louisville Manual) 5, Bre Elder (Marion County) 2, Micah Jones (Green
County) 5, Kendall Noble (Perry County Central) 13, Christine Roush
(Mercy) 11, Courtney Roush (Mercy) 5, Christy Soldo (Hopkinsville) 14,
Jasmine Whitfield (South Oldham) 16, April Wilson (Louisville Manual)
5, Kara Wright (Louisville Manual) 8, Leasia Wright (Louisville Manual)
2.

Junior All-Stars (77) - Tearra Banks (Louisville Ballard) 1, Larryn
Brooks (Madison Central) 3, China Down (Christian Academy) 12, Makayla
Epps (Marion County) 5, Ashton Feldhaus (Madison Central) 2; Emily Fox
(Lincoln County) 6, Kyvin Goodin-Rogers (Marion County) 3, Becca
Greenwell (Owensboro Catholic) 17, Whitney Hartlage (Mercy) 9, Beth
Rates (Hancock County) 2, Chelsey Shumpert (Paducah Tilghman) 12, Aaron
Smith (Butler), 5.

Three-pointers - Hartlage 3, Dow 2, Fox 2, Whitfield 2, K. Wright 2,
Jones, Ch. Roush, Co. Roush.






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A year ago, Kendall Noble was an unhappy girl, forcing herself to go to physical therapy and do the work necessary to get back on the court.

"I hated it," she said of the daily grind of rehab. "You're doing the same stuff over and over again for six months. You have to take baby steps; you can't just jump back into it like you want to."

So excuse the former Perry County Central star for jumping for joy on her reconstructed knee that she's a member of the girls' Kentucky All-Stars, who will face Indiana this weekend in the annual basketball series.

"It's been amazing being back, being 100 percent and being a part of the All-Stars," said Noble, who tore her anterior cruciate ligament during the Sweet Sixteen tournament her junior year.

Players like Noble, a Western Kentucky signee, and Miss Basketball Sydney Moss, a Florida signee, have made this All-Stars team a bit different from most.

"They really don't have any egos," said Kentucky girls' coach Stacy Pendleton of Manual. "They don't care who gets it done as long as 'Kentucky' gets it done."

That unselfishness has made this week of practice and preparation for the two games a lot of fun, Moss said.

"On almost every All-Star team there are ball hogs and people wanting to score this many points," she said. "But we're just playing well as a team."

Pendleton likes this team, which is considered a favorite to possibly sweep Indiana for only the second time since 1991 because of the players' unselfishness.

"I'd rather have a bunch of really good kids who care about the team than a bunch of great ones who only care about themselves," he said.

Noble, who has the distinction of being the only girl in the state to play in six state tournaments, is definitely one of those players who helps set the unselfish tone.

"She's very quiet," Pendleton said. "She really doesn't want to be in the spotlight. She wants to be on the team and have the team do well. That's just the way she is. I love that about her."

Noble, who ended her high school career with 2,987 points, 1,653 rebounds, 1,014 steals and 916 assists, said she's on a team that has a similar personality to her own.

With four players from defending state champion Manual and three others from in or near Louisville, Noble wasn't so sure how she'd fit in being from Eastern Kentucky.

Other than a few jokes about her accent, Noble said it's been fun.

"Everybody's real chill," she said. "Nobody's got the big head or anything."

Another thing Pendleton liked most about Noble was her defensive prowess, but she's not alone. In a Tuesday night scrimmage against the Junior All-Stars at Paul Laurence Dunbar, the seniors held the younger group to just 46 points in 40 minutes of play.

Noble and the players say they'd love to do the same to the Hoosiers.

"We want to play hard and play together," she said when asked about the team's goals this weekend. "We'd like to kick Indiana's butt."

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