Lady Generals open with three tough tests
The Heritage Lady Generals opened their season with a victory over the Notre Dame Lady Irish last Tuesday on the opening night of the Ridgeland Thanksgiving Tournament, but endured tough back-toback losses to end the week.
The Lady Generals weathered a couple of runs by Notre Dame to get their season-opening win.
Heritage took a sixpoint lead after one quarter and stretched it out to 28-15 at intermission. Notre Dame, however, would go on a 15-4 run over the first five minutes of the third quarter to make it a one-possession game at 32-30.
But Emily Wiley would immediately answer with a 3-pointer and she and Ariana Camp would each hit one more trey by the end of the period to push the lead back to 12.
The Lady Generals would extend their advantage to 14 points early in the fourth quarter before Notre Dame made one final run. A 12-5 spurt cut the deficit down to 48-43 with 3:15 to play.
However, the Heritage defense would answer the call and clamped down in the final 180 seconds. Wiley would drain her third 3-pointer of the game with just under a minute to play to ice the win.
She would finish with three 3-pointers and 22 total points. Camp hit a pair of threes and had 12 points in her Heritage debut, while Ansley Bice also connected on two 3-pointers and finished with 10 points.
Signal Mountain 68, Heritage 57
The Heritage Lady Generals held a seven-point lead after one quarter against the Lady Eagles on Wednesday, but saw it evaporate by halftime as they dropped the decision.
Signal Mountain put four players in double figures, led by a 21-point effort from Olivia
Koontz.
Wiley and Ansley Bice had 15 points apiece for the Lady Generals.
Sarah Bandy dropped in 12 points, while Camp added nine.
The Lady Generals led 27-21 at halftime on Friday, but lost the lead in the final 3:38 of the game as the Lady Mountaineers went on a 9-0 run to seal the victory.
Karlee Tipton had 15 points to lead four North Murray players in double figures.
Camp and Bice had 14 points each for Heritage (1-2) in the loss, while Wiley added 11.
Heritage will jump into Region 6-AAAA action on Tuesday with a home game against Southeast Whitfield.