Ringgold girls set to carry No. 1 seed into 6-AAA tournament
The Ringgold Lady Tigers dropped three straight games in a pre-christmas tournament in Tennessee back in mid-december and returned home sporting a 6-7 overall record.
They haven’t lost since.
The Blue-and-white capped an 11-0 month of January with a 41-33 non-region home victory over Heritage in front of a packed David Moss Gymnasium on Friday night.
Rachel Akers had 17 points, 10 rebounds and three steals. Riley Nayadley finished with 11 points and Rachel Lopez scored eight. Maggie Reed and Shelby Cole both had two points with Cole grabbing nine rebounds. Sydney Pittman scored the other point for Ringgold and blocked a pair of shots.
Ringgold (17-7) will be the No. 1 seed in this week’s Region 6-AAA tournament at North Murray High School. They have received a bye to the semifinals, which will take place this Friday night at 7 p.m., and are assured of a spot in this year’s Class AAA state tournament.
Heritage (7-18) got 14 points from Gracie Murray, six from Lauren Mock, three each from Sydnee St. John, Bailey Christol and Morgan Phillips and two apiece from Riley Kokinda and Brooke Matherly.
The Lady Generals were slated to take on Lafayette in the opening round of the Region 6-AAAA tournament at Southeast Whitfield High School on Monday of this week. Due to newspaper deadlines, results of that game were not available as of press time.
Heritage boys 65, Ringgold 44
Friday’s second game of the saw the Tigers take a 12-8 lead after the first quarter. However, the Generals would come back to tie the game at 19 apiece and they would use a 9-4 run late in the second quarter to forge a 2823 lead at intermission.
Ringgold would cut the deficit down to 32-30 early in the third stanza, but the Generals would
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