Gordon Lee teams suffer subregion home sweep

The Trion Lady Bulldogs used two significant fourth-quarter runs to score a 56-45 6-A North subregion win at Gordon Lee last Tuesday night.

Trion led 25-22 at halftime, but Gordon Lee (1-9, 0-3) would rally in the third quarter as a 12-foot baseline jumper from Emma Phillips and a Emma Mcgraw drive to the hoop would put the home team up 36-33 with less than two minutes left in the third quarter.

However, the Lady Bulldogs would score the final four points of the period to regain a one-point lead and they would open the final quarter on a 7-1 run to push their lead to seven. A 12-5 run over the final 4:26 would close it out. The final three points for the Lady Trojans would come with just five seconds left to play.

Mcgraw had 15 points to pace Gordon Lee, followed by Gracie O’neal with 11 and Sadie Gasaway with nine.

Shelby Carlock had 23 points for the Lady Bulldogs and Chloe Murdock finished with 15.

Trion boys 46, Gordon Lee 37

After a less-than-memorable opening half that saw Trion lead 4-3 after one quarter and 10-7 at intermission, the offenses would finally start to open up in the second half, more so on the side of the visitors.

The Bulldogs took a 29-18 lead into the final period of play and were up 40-30 with just a minute remaining when the Trojans began to make things interesting.

Gavin Mcalister would score five straight points in a matter of seconds to cut the lead to five and, following two Trion free throws, Weston Beagles found Will Carswell under the basket to pull Gordon Lee back to within five points, 42-37, with 32 seconds left.

But after another Bulldog free throw, the Trojans would turn the ball over on a traveling call and Trion would hit 3 of 4 free throws in the final 26 seconds to seal the win.

Andy Allen had 16 points for Trion in the win. Austin Mason scored 15 points, all coming in the second half, including four 3-pointers.

Carswell had a dozen points to lead Gordon Lee (2-8, 0-3), while Logan Simerley joined Mcalister with seven points in the loss.

Scott Herpst Gordon Lee’s Will Carswell looks to push a shot over the head of Trion’s Andy Allen during last week Region 6-A North game in Chickamauga.