POSTED: Friday December 19, 2008
Deanna Daniels rebounded her own missed free throw with six seconds left and helped Centennial’s girls basketball team run out the clock Friday for a 60-57 win over 19th-ranked Oak Hill (Va.) Academy in the quarterfinals of the Tournament of Champions in Phoenix.
Centennial had pulled the rest of its players back to defend a potential game-tying shot, but Daniels grabbed her own miss and preserved the win.
Johnna Brown had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Shannon Brown 14 points and Alexis Byrd 11 points for the Bulldogs.
Shylanda Saunders led Oak Hill, ranked 19th by USA Today, with 13 points.
Bishop Gorman 69, Lynwood (Calif.) 55 — At the Tournament of Champions in Phoenix, Aaryn Ellenberg led four Gaels in double-figure scoring with 24 points as Gorman moved into the semifinals.
Yahindra Edwards added 16 points for the Gaels, who saw their 13-point halftime lead whittled to five before pulling away.
Chelsie Pitt scored 13 points and Dannielle Diamant 10 for Gorman.
West Wendover 57, Tabiona (Utah) 22 — At West Wendover, Danika Sharp made 17 of 20 free throws and totaled 34 points to lead the Wolverines past Tabiona.
The Wolverines outscored Tabiona 17-2 in the second quarter and allowed 12 points in the final three quarters.
In the Rock Holiday Classic at Henderson International:
Laughlin 43, Indian Springs 27 — Ariana Hardy scored 16 points to lead the Cougars to the win in the championship game.
Elisa Daniels added 12 points for Laughlin.
Karys Melgoza led Indian Springs with 12 points.
Hardy was named the tourrnament Most Valuable Player. Laughlin’s Alysia Deyempert and Brittany Chase also made the all-tournament team along with Indian Springs’ Tina Traster and Melgoza, Calvary Chapel’s Sammie Mann and Brittany Huff of Henderson International.
Calvary Chapel 39, Henderson International 14 — The Lions took a 17-1 halftime lead and cruised to the win in the consolation game.
Mann had 21 points for Calvary Chapel.
Lauren Mushkin led the Wolverines with eight points.
Indian Springs 22, Henderson International 18 — Traster had 10 points to lead the Thunderbirds.
Huff scored eight for the Wolverines.
Laughlin 35, Calvary Chapel 22 — Chase had 14 points to lead the Cougars over the Lions.
Mann led Calvary Chapel with 12 points.
Actually the bulldog team is no joke. Coach Weitz knows exactly what she is doing and how to win state ( back to back to back to back). How do they run the score when the game is still goiing and everyone is playing...sorry centennial's roster IS that strong including the starting five and the bench. Why would Coach Karen want to rest the players in any game...hard or easy.. EACH game is a GAME! so yeah we did think of that BGHS
Lol that was all a lie your so dumb you got caught up in these dumb blogs jokes on you trick LOL hahaha get a life or job lame-ooooooo
proud doctor, maybe they would be healty if the coach would not run the score and rest thme in the easy games. ever think of that?
It was a pretty intense game vs oakhill but according to the roster everyone was in the game but it's kind of weird how your going to be the one to come to Arizona and Reno, sorry my friend get a life. The top two players who signed d 1 did play they just couldn't handle real defense. Also, since you know so much about centenn come watch all our games. And about Reno, number 10 and 2 looked fine. If you want to talk about injuries number 23 for centennial has 2 fractured feet, number 1 has a broken thumb, number 00 has extreme ankle sprains, number 3 has top of the line shin splints,number 12 and 32 have vicious ACL injuries( will be back at the end of the season), and number 22 has a broken pinky like kobe. And you don't see them making excuses. They just play because they love the game and love to make all the haters mad.if you have any
That was a nice win for Centennial. Oak Hill was missing 2 of its starters from the flu though. And, Centennial would have lost to Reno if Reno's All State player Finley had been healthy and their coach didn't spread the playing time among all the players in the meaningless pre-season scrimmage.
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