For the first 12 minutes of Wednesday's Class C2 Section V semifinal game between Oakfield-Alabama and Pery, the two teams looked pretty evenly matched, but then Perry began to pull away.
The half ended with the Perry girls up 22-14. In the third quarter, Perry much sealed the fate of the Hornets, outscoring them 14-3. The final eight minutes was just a matter of maintenance for the Yellowjackets.
The final, 43-19.
Rachel Evans scored 13 for Perry, Chelsea Pascoe, 12, and McKenna Croll, eight.
For 0-A, Lauren Reding scored 5 and Brianna Greene had four.
The Hornets have relied on strong defense all season and Perry's head coach, Courtney Kingston, said her team knew it needed to stay disciplined to get the ball around O-A's Kenydie Mott, who can alter the course of games on defense.
"We made sure we were setting our screens and making our early passes to get around her good defense and get our offense going," Kingston said.
Perry was able to effectively move the ball inside and that has been a big step forward for the team, Kingston said.
"That's really the whole way to be a threat, to use both our post and use our guards," Kingston said. "We have two strong posts we can put in there and we use them. It's been a struggle until the past couple of games to make good interior passes, and we did it tonight."
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