June 11-14 KBA Lexington KY

Sunday June 14th

Varsity key games.

Sacred Heart Academy 51 Mercy 46 (Quarterfinal) - Autumn Miller led Sacred Heart with 19 points.  Ellen Sholtes amd Therese Montano led Mercy with 12 and nine points respectively.

Butler 67 CAL 63 (2OT) (Quarterfinal) - Whitney Reed, Megan Cureton, and Heather Wheat led Butler with 20, 15, and 14  points respectively.  Antonita Slaughter and China Dow led CAL with 29 and 15 points respectively.

Casey County 61 Madison Central 51 (Quarterfinal) - Megan Pittman and Amanda Johnson led Casey County with 27 and 11 points respectively.  Larryn Brooks and Brislyn Sizemore led Madison Central with 14 and 10 points respectively.

Marion County 53 Franklin County 50 (Quarterfinal) - Makayla Epps and Bre Elder led Marion County with 17 and 11 points respectively.  Chelsea Craig and Ashli Mayes led Franklin County with 18 and 16 points respectively.

Sacred Heart Academy 48 Butler 41 (Semifinal) - Anna Marie Campbell led Sacred Heart with 14 points.  Whitney Reed led Butler with 15 points.

Marion County 57 Casey County 51 (Semifinal) - Makayla Epps and Andrea King led Marion County with 29 and 10 points respectively.  Megan Pittman led Casey County with 34 points.

Marion County 55 Sacred Heart Academy 52 (Championship) - Makayla Epps, Kyvin Goodin-Rogers, and Bre Elder led Marion County with 25, 11, and 10 points respectively.  Jackie Hafele, Morgan Clemons, and Maddie Peabody led Sacred Heart with 19, 12, and 10 points respectively.

Congratulations to a very young talented Marion County squad for capturing the championship.  Makayla Epps and Kyvin Goodin-Rogers will be freshmen next season and Bre Elder will be a soph.  This team is very solid and should be very good for several seasons.

Coach Rice has a very solid CAL team led by 6-2 Sr. Antonita Slaughter, one of the top contenders for Miss Basketball.  CAL also have solid returnees including Allison Karst and Anna Hart and a talented newcomer in China Dow.

Sacred Heart, Mercy, and Butler are all solid teams that will make a lot of noise this season.  There are several players on all three teams capable of having excellent seasons.

Casey County's Megan Pittman is the real deal, she has excellent post moves and nice range on her jump shot.  Madison Central and Franklin County are two up and coming teams very capable of breaking into the state's elite teams in the very near future.  Both are very capable of challenging for the 11th region title this season.

Several other teams that did not make it to Sunday were very impressive and I will cover them more in my regular writeup later.

I always enjoy watching Mercy's Therese Montano play.  Montano is a 5-9 senior-to-be who tends to make everyone around her better,  She does a little bit of everything and would have been capable of playing well in every era of the game.

Makayla Epps definitely proved this week that youth must be served and she sliced through  the competition this week with ease which belies her youth.