Lady Tigers Rally, Remain Unbeaten In 4A-1

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GENTRY — Prairie Grove girls basketball coach Kevin Froud acknowledged thoughts of his postgame speech with his team coming up on the short end were starting to form with the Lady Tigers trailing by five with a little more than 90 seconds left in the fourth quarter Friday night.

However, Prairie Grove took advantage of a pair of late Gentry turnovers and Parker Lopez scored inside with seven seconds left to lift the Lady Tigers to a 46-44 road win to stay on top in the 4A-1 conference.

Gentry (11-4, 3-2 4A-1 Conference) took the ball the length of the floor in the final 5.7 seconds, but never got a shot off as time expired.

Taylor Hartin led the Lady Tigers (12-4, 5-0 4A-1) with 17 points, while Mattie Hartin chipped in 11. Senior Haley James finished with a gamehigh 18 points, while Haley Hays added 10, including three 3-pointers for Gentry.

“We got down five with about two minutes left and already had my after-the-game speech starting to roll around in my head,” Froud said. “Then Taylor Hartin makes some free throws and Camree Bartholomew made a big three. Then we got some big turnovers.

“It was just a good game. It’s just a battle in this conference. In the first half it was kinda drudge, battle and the girls kept doing it and we found a way to win.”

It looked as though Froud’s initial