New River roundup: Warriors boys and girls win; Woodrow girls fall

Jan. 3—Girls

Wyoming East 64, Princeton 27

Princeton had not played a game in two weeks. Wyoming East, meanwhile, spent the week between Christmas and New Year's Day playing four games.

It looked it.

Kyndal Lusk scored 19 points and Cadee Blackburn 17 in the Warriors' 64-27 victory against the Tigers in the New River CTC Invitational Wednesday at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center.

"We wanted to simulate the state tournament," coach Ryan Davidson said of the pre-New Year's slate of four games in and three straight in one stretch. "We wanted to make it as hard as possible. I don't know if that was a little too extreme. But it was a good experience."

Wyoming East plays Bluefield at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Princeton plays Shady Spring at 1 p.m. Thursday.

With the score 8-6 midway through the first quarter, Wyoming East's well-oiled machine would outscore Princeton 29-7 the rest of the first half to put the game away.

It didn't stop there.

The Warriors scored the first 12 of the second half before the Tigers brought in five new players with 2:30 remaining.

Princeton was led by Brie Bane's five points.

Wyoming East shot 58 percent for the game, hitting 25 of 43 shots, the largest applause coming when Kaylee Hodges came in late and skied in a 3 off the glass from the wing near the Warriors bench.

Princeton

Kalee Wright 1-3 0-0 2, Kendra Connor 1-4 0-0 2, Maddie Stull 0-2 2-2 2, Abbey Wood 0-2 0-0 0, Abby Honaker 0-2 0-2 0, Brie Bane 2-4 1-2 5, Addyson Sarver 2-6 0-1 4, Emma Harmon 2-5 0-0 4, Arie Mullins 0-1 0-0 0, Alli Parks 1-4 0-0 2, Asia Collins 1-3 0-0 2, Carley Hurt 0-2 0-0 0, Laykn Burner 0-1 2-2 2, Chloe Clendenin 1-1 0-0 2

Wyoming East

Carlee Russell 0-0 0-0 0 Kyndal Lusk 6-8 3-3 19, Cadee Blackburn 6-11 3-3 17, September Belcher 0-1 0-0 0, Madison Clark 4-8 1-3 9, Malinlei Hatfield 1-1 0-0 2, Abbi Baker 4-4 0-1 8, Charleigh Price 1-2 0-0 2, Michaela Brooks 0-0 0-0 0, Kyleigh Martin 0-0 0-0, Kenna Price 1-2 0-0 2, Emma Blankenship 0-0 0-0 0, Alivia Monroe 1-4 0-0 2, Gabby Cameron 0-1 0-0 0, Kaylee Hodges 1-1 0-0 3. TOTALS: 25-43 7-10 64.

P 6 7 6 8 — 27

WE 15 22 17 10 — 64

Three-point field goals — P: 0-8 (Conner 0-2, Stull 0-1, Honaker 0-1, Bane — 1, Parks 0-WE: 7015 (Lusk 4-6, Blackburn 2-5, Belcher 0-1, Clark 0-2, Hodges 1-1). Fouled out — None.

Spring Valley 77,

Woodrow Wilson 39

Spring Valley jumped on Woodrow Wilson quickly and cruised to a 77-39 victory in the nightcap of the New River CTC Invitational.

The Timberwolves had four players in double figures and they shot 50 percent from the field (29 of 58).

Alexandria Parker had 19 points, Brooklyn Ellis 16 and Sophi Hutchinson and Allie Daniels 12 each.

Woodrow Wilson was led by Karsyn Gunter, who had 12 points and was 3 of 5 from 3-point range. Somalia Nelson had 10.

Spring Valley forced 25 turnovers by Woodrow and had 20 steals.

Woodrow will play the loser of Friday's University-Huntington game Saturday at 11:15 a.m. Spring Valley gets the winner at 2:45 p.m. Saturday.

Spring Valley

Savannah Davis 2-3 2-3 6, Sophi Hutchison 5-9 0-0 12, Maelyn Cook 1-2 0-0 2, Ava Robertson 1-1 0-0 2, Charlee Harris 0-2 0-0 0, Jaedyn Moore 0-2 0-0 0, Jessalyn Riddle 0-0 0-0 0, Alila Courterier 0-0 0-0 0, Haleigh Crum 2-5 1-2 6, Brooklyn Ellis 6-13 2-2 16, Lucy Jackspn 1-1 0-0 2, Alina Evans 0-1 0-0 0, Alexandria Parker 7-12 2-4 19, Allie Daniels 4-7 4-4 12. TOTALS: 29-58 11-15 77

Woodrow Wilson

Shyloh Mack 0-2 0-0 0, Hannah Keiling 0-0 0-0 0, Lithena Hazelwood 1-4 0-0 2, Josie Cross 1-17 0-0 2, Addison Walker 0-1 0-0 0, Alauna Ellis 2-6 0-0 4, Somalia Nelson 3-6 4-6 10, Sarah Hopkins 0-6 0-0 0, Karsyn Gunter 3-7 3-4 12, Nevaeh King 0-0 0-0 0, Cadence Reid 0-1 0-0 0. Leiloni Manns 4-7 1-2 9. TOTALS: 14-57 14-18 39

Spring Valley 23 23 23 8 — 77

Woodrow Wilson 10 12 7 10 — 39

Three-point field goals — SV: 8 (Hutchison 2, Crum 1, Ellis 2, Parker 3). WW: 3 (Gunter 3). Fouled out — None.

Boys

Wyoming East 45,

Princeton 39

Braxton Morgan poured in 13 points in the fourth quarter, in an array of ways, including what he called a key offensive rebound, to lead Wyoming East to a 45-39 win over Princeton.

After not scoring in the first half, the sophomore asserted himself in the final quarter.

"I just gained some confidence after that offensive rebound and I started feeling myself and (the game) just came to me," Morgan said. "After that stickback I was like, 'OK, I've got confidence now.' I started shooting the ball more, I hadn't been shooting as much, and they started falling."

Did they ever.

Morgan scored nine straight for the Warriors to lead the team back from what was a six-point deficit early in the fourth. He gave the team its first lead since early in the third with just over four minutes remaining.

Princeton momentarily retook the lead, but Zach Hunt had a big 3 and then Morgan closed it with two more baskets.

Wyoming East outscored Princeton 9-2 in the final 4:10.

Morgan was 6 of 8 from the floor in the final quarter and he added six rebounds.

Cole Lambert had 14 to lead the Warriors.

Koen Sartin had 12 for Princeton and Zayden Neely 10.

The first half was played at a plodding pace.

In the last 15 seconds of the half, Konnor Fox had a slam dunk and, after a turnover, Lambert beat the buzzer to the basket to give the Warriors a 18-16 lead at the half.

The highlight of the first half was a three-quarter court shot at the end of the first quarter by Princeton's Gavin Stover that gave the Tigers a 9-8 lead.

Wyoming East

Dennis Bariev 0-0 0-0 0, Cole Lambert 7-14 0-2 14, Zach Hunt 3-9 0-0 8, Bryson Huff 3-5 0-0 6, Braydon Hoosier 0-2 0-0 0, Landon Hodges 0-0 0-0 0, Braxton Morgan 6-8 0-1 13, Konnor Fox 1-6 1-2. 2-44 2-7 45

Princeton

Nik Fleming 2-11 0-0 4, Gavin Stover 1-7 0-0 3, Gavin Brown1-1 0-0 2, Brit Basley x3-7 0-0 6, Marquel Lowe 1-4 0-2 2, , Brd Mossor 0-1 0-0 0, Reece Rhodes 0-0 0-0 0, Koen Sartin 5-12 2-2 12, Zayden Neely 4-5 1-2 10 TOTALS: 17-48 3-6 39

WE 8 10 9 18 — 45

P 9 7 16 7 — 39

Three-point field goals — WE: 3-14 (Lambert 0-4, Hunt 2-7,Hoosier 0-1, Morgan 1-1. Prin: 2-20 (Fleming 0-3, Stover 1-6, Beasley 0-4, Lowe 0-2, Mossor 0-1, Sartin 0-2, Neely 1-2. Fouled out — None.