NLR girls on target in blowout victory

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

North Little Rock Coach Daryl Fimple wasn’t happy with the number of closerange shots his team missed inside during their loss to Parkway (La.) on Friday.

On Saturday, his Lady Charging Wildcats didn’t do much of anything wrong in blowing past Huntington, La.

Ten players scored for No. 2 North Little Rock, led by a 16-point, 12-rebound outing from Amauri Williams, as it pounded the Lady Gators 81-23 on the final day of the Turkey Feast Classic at Pulaski Academy’s Hugg Gymnasium.

Kyriana Jones added 12 points while both Jocelyn Tate and Ja’myia Brown had 10 points apiece for the Lady Charging Wildcats (2-1), who bounced back with a sterling performance after dropping their first game of the season the day before.

“We missed a bunch of shots [Friday], and then we turn around a have a day like this one where you don’t miss at all it seemed,” Fimple said. “I loved our effort. It was one of those get-right games. We actually played well in our last one. … we just couldn’t make lay-ups.”

North Little Rock didn’t miss often against Huntington. The Lady Charging Wildcats shot 30 of 49 (61.2%), including an astonishing 10 of 12 in the first quarter. They also controlled the glass, outrebounding the Lady Raiders 41-16.

No player scored more than four points for Huntington (12), which gave up separate 12-0 and 10-2 runs in the opening quarter to fall into a 27-9 hole. North Little Rock continued to push the tempo and hound the Lady Raiders in the second quarter, scoring 19 of the last 20 points to go into halftime with a 58-15 advantage.

It didn’t get much better for Huntington in the second half, either. The Lady Raiders were 0-of-8 shooting in the quarter and knocked down just one bucket in the fourth to finish 5 of 37 (13.5%) for the game.

“The girls did a good job on both ends of the floor,” Fimple explained. “They shared the ball really well, just a very unselfish group. We’re getting there, that’s for sure.”