Little Rock Christian tops Greenwood girls

LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN 63, GREENWOOD 54

GREENWOOD — Little Rock Christian switched to a zone on defense in the final quarter of the game, and it worked out well for the Lady Warriors on Friday night at H.B. Stewart Bulldog Arena. Little Rock Christian scored the initial eight points of the fourth quarter to help pull away for a 63-54 victory against Greenwood in a Class 5A-West conference matchup. “This is a big win,” Little Rock Christian coach Ronald Rogers said. “When you come to Greenwood and in the first conference game win, that’s huge for us. We just beat a really good team.” Amber Brown scored a game-high 26 points to lead the way for the Lady Warriors. Reagan Bradley added 20 points, and Wynter Rogers finished with 16 to help balance the Little Rock Christian offense. “They are the ones who make the engine run,” Rogers said. “They are big-time players and stepped up for us in big moments.” Greenwood (8-5, 0-1) was led by Kyiah Julian and Jaelin Glass each scoring a teamhigh 13 points. Angela Price also had 11 for the Lady Bulldogs. Little Rock Christian (13-1, 1-0) held a 49-45 lead heading into the fourth quarter and helped put the game away slowing down the game. Greenwood missed its initial seven shots of the final quarter and didn’t score until there was 1:20 left in the game. That allowed the Lady Warriors to push out their lead to 57-45 to open the quarter. “They got in that zone,” said Greenwood coach Matt Bryant, filling in for Clay Reeves on medical leave for the season. “As I told the girls, that’s on me every time. It looked like they were unsure what to do. We got a little stagnant.” The Lady Bulldogs used an 11-2 run to open the second half to hold a 42-36 lead. Little Rock Christian then used a scoring run of its own, closing out the third quarter to take a 49-45 lead with a 13-3 run. “We kind of just needed to gain our composure,” Rogers said. “They play that havoc basketball that gets you in a hurry. They are so good at that. We got the ball down in the paint a lot more in the second half and stopped turning it over.”