Dalton, Jackson shine for GNTC women

The Georgia Northwestern Lady Bobcats snapped a three-game losing streak in a big way last Monday as they traveled to the top of Lookout Mountain and handed the Covenant College junior varsity squad a 64- 41 defeat.

It was a monster night for freshman sharpshooter Abby Dalton. The Gordon Lee High School product drained five 3-pointers, all in the second half, and finished with 30 points, setting her own career high. It is the highest- scoring game by a Lady Bobcat since the program moved its base to Rossville five years ago.

Georgia Northwestern held a slim 29- 27 lead at halftime, but held the Lady Scots to just 14 total points in the second half as they picked up their third consecutive win over the Covenant JV team, dating back to last season.

Jerriale Jackson added nine points and pulled down a team-high 13 rebounds, while Gracen Hobbs also had nine points to go with six boards. Katelyn O’toole had six points and six rebounds and Tori Harvey finished with four points, three assists, three steals and 10 rebounds. Destiny Willbanks and Mia Clark had three points each, while Hannah Carr grabbed one rebound.

On Friday, with its two leading scorers in secondhalf foul trouble, the Lady Bobcats pulled together and gutted out a 73-66 victory over the Lady Ambassadors of Oakwood University in the first game of the 2018 Lady Bobcat Holiday Bash tournament at the Rossville Athletic Center.

Dalton scored a gamehigh 27 points. Harvey finished with 16 points, despite fouling out with 4: 01 to play, and Hobbs stepped up with 12 points to go with seven rebounds.