Eat 28 turnovers in approximately an hour and 15 minutes and you’d have a major case of indigestion. That some number of turnovers on the basketball court by their team would be hard to stomach for about any coach — Georgetown’s Rhonda Farney included.
The Lady Eagles coach was “frustrated” as her Lady Eagles had that number of divots during their 41-32 loss to Fort Worth Trimble Tech Saturday in the Gold Bracket semifinals of the 39th annual Jack Frost Invitational Tournament at Eagle Gym.
“As much as I was proud of our performance in our recent wins, I was disappointed with our mental effort today,” Farney said as the Lady Eagles’ season record fell to 8-5. “We had so many opportunities in the first half that we should have been ahead by 10 at halftime. It’s definitely a game we should have won.”
The Lady Eagles led 23-20 at the half despite making 14 turnovers in the first 16 minutes, including a series of errant passes.
Trimble Tech went on to be blown out in the finals by last year’s JFK runner-u p Liberty Hill, 68-39. Other girls champions were Argyle in the Silver Bracket and Amarillo Tascosa in the Bronze Bracket.
Farney is hoping that the Lady Eagles will have their game back — both physically and mentally — when they return to District 19-5A competition against Hutto, 1-1 in district, at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Eagle Gym. The Lady Hippos have lost to Cedar Park, 56-43, and beat Bastrop Cedar Creek, 72-33, in district.
The Lady Eagles are 1-0 in district. After having the opening-night bye in 19-5A, GHS downed Pflugerville Connally, 51-41,in their iniital 19-5A test last Tuesday.
A bucket by sophomore forward McCall Hampton gave the Lady Eagles a 27-25 lead over Trimble Tech with two minutes and 53 seconds to go in the third period, but a 3-pointer by Alexcia Fountain put the Bulldogs ahead for good at 28-27 with 1:59 to go in the quarter.
From that point forward, Trimble Tech outscored Georgetown, 14-5, during the remainder of the game. The Lady Eagles only points during that period were a 3-pointer by senior guard Josie Weirich and two free throws by junior post Jaelyn Knight.
In edition to the turnovers, Georgetown had shooting problems, making only 11 of 31 field goals and six of 12 free throws. Knight led GHS scoring with 12 points. The second-best scoring totals were six points by Weirich and Hampton.
The Lady Eagles did take a 27-22 edge on the boards with the 5-foot-9 Hampton pulling down 12 rebounds for the third time this season. Although she didn’t score, senior Maddie Vickers added five assists, three rebounds and four steals.
Bre’auna Smith and Anna McDowell paced Trimble Tech with scoring totals of 11 and 10 points, respectively. Smith also chipped in four of the Lady Bulldogs’ seven blocks.
Knight was the Lady Eagles’ only selection on the all-tournament team.
Despite the last-minute withdrawl of Houston Westbury Christian from the Jack Frost that cost the Lady Eagles at least one game and the poorer-than-expected performance against Trimble Tech, now 6-6 on the season, Farney was pleased with the tournament.
“I want to thank (tournament director) Milton VanDusen and the Jack Frost committee for making this tournament the awesome thing that it is along with our primary sponsors Farmers Insurance (Jana and Jaime Briggs), Minuteman Press (Ty and Crystal Gibson) and Hat Creek Burger Company.”
She also had praise for prime booster David Daniel, the Sun City Booster Club and the outstanding concessions along with the efforts of the Georgetown program’s parents.
On the sub-varsity level, the Georgetown JV downed Pflugerville, 40-27, to win the team title of the Nsancy Walling Pflugerville JV Tournament. The Freshman Blue finished third in the Nancy Walling Pflugerville Freshman Tournament, beating Hutto, 33-18.
“Great Effort by everyone!,” GHS JV coach Kellye Richardson said. “Proud of the way the girls are playing especially on the defensive end.”
Mercedes Robledo and Haily Smith led the Lady Eagles JV with nine points each.
Graci Harris scored 11 points to lead the Freshman Blue and Skylar Neugent added nine points.
39th ANNUAL JACK FROST
INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
At Georgetown, Saturday, Dec. 3
GOLD BRACKET BOXSCORE
FORT WORTH TRIMBLE TECH 41, GEORGETOWN 32
TIMBLE TECH (41) — Taylor Crawford 1-1 0-0 0, Deston’ee Rainey 0-1 0-0 0, Kyndall Woodard 1-1 0-0 2, Amyah Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Dabresha Lamb 0-1 0-0 0, Alexcia Fountain 1-8 1-2 4, Jade Hollie 2-6 1-5 5, Rylan Rogers 2-6 2-5 7, Bre’auna Smith 5-10 1-2 11, Anna McDowell 3-6 4-7 10. Totals: 15-41 9-21 41.
GHS (32) — Ali Isbell 0-1 0-0 0, Josie Weirich 2-5 0-1 6, Kylie Ellsworth 2-3 0-0 5, Mackenzy Mouton 0-0 0-0 0, Jaelyn Knight 3-12 5-7 12, Maddie Vickers 0-1 0-0 0, Jade Smith 1-2 1-3 3, McCall Hampton 3-7 0-1 6. Totals: 11-31 6-12 32.
Halftime: GHS, 23-20. 3-point shooting: TT 2-13 (Rainey 0-1, Fountain 1-6, Hollie 0-3, Rogers 1-2, McDowell 0-1); GHS 4-10 (Isbell 0-1, Weirich 2-5, Ellsworth 1-2, Knight 1-2). Rebounds: TT 22; GHS 27 (Hampton 12, Knight 4, Vickers 3). Assists: GHS 12 (Vickers 5, Knight 3). Steals: GHS 12 (Vickers 4, Knight 3, Mouton 3). Blocks: TT 7 (Smith 4, McDowell 2, Rogers 1); GHS 2 (Mouton, Knight). Turnovers: TT 15, GHS 28. Total fouls: TT 17; GHS 16. Fouled out: none. Technical fouls: TT, Johnson (first, 2:05); coach Farney (fourth 4:35). Records: Trimble Tech, 6-6; Georgetown, 8-5.
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
GIRLS
GOLD BRACKET
Semifinals
Fort Worth Trimble Tech 41, Georgetown 32
Liberty Hill 66, Cibolo Steele 55
Finals
Liberty Hill 68, Trimble Tech 39
SILVER BRACKET
Semifinals
Argyle 44, Leander 20
Vandegrift 43, Belton 33
Finals
Argyle 55, Vandegrift 34
BRONZE BRACKET
Semifinals
San Antonio Incarnate Word 49, San Marcos 29
Amarillo Tascosa 45, San Antonio Veterans Memorial 43
Finals
Tascosa 69, Incarnate Word 56
FRIENDSHIP BRACKET
Lubbock Coronado def. Killeen, unavailable.
GIRLS ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
MVP — Kandyn Faurie, Liberty Hill, sr., forward.
Selections by team:
Liberty Hill: Sedona Price, sr., post; Shaylin Vickers, sr., guard.
Fort Worth Trimble Tech: Alexcia Fountain, jr., guard; Bre’Auna Smith, soph., post; Anna McDowell, jr., forward.
Argyle: Gabby Standifer, sr., post; Sydney Standifer, fr., guard.
Georgetown: Jaelyn Knight, jr., forward.
Cibolo Steele: Aja Holmes, soph., forward; Desiree Caldwell, sr., guard.
Amarillo Tascosa: Rylee Zimmer, jr., guard.
Austin Bowie: Hailey Atwood, jr., guard.
Austin Vandegrift: Ella Drablos, jr., post.
Leander: Kassadie Sanders, sr., guard.
San Antonio Incarnate Word: Sophia Ramos, sr., guard.
San Antonio Veterans Memorial: Sahara Jones, soph., forward.
BOYS
GOLD BRACKET
Semifinals
Trophy Club Byron Nelson 75, Abilene 43
Austin Vandegrift 59, Austin Lake Travis 53
Finals
Vandegrift 60, Byron Nelson 51
SILVER BRACKET
Semifinals
Leander 67, San Antonio Churchill 66
Round Rock Westwood 54, Belton 51
Finals
Leander 47, Westwood 43
BRONZE BRACKET
Semifinals
Magnolia 62, San Antonio Stevens 60
College Station Aggieland Homeschool 72, Spring Christian Homeschool Ministries 53
Finals
Magnolia 56, Aggieland Homeschool 49
FRIENDSHIP BRACKET
Kyle Lehman 43, Georgetown 40
College Station A&M Consolidated def. McNeil, unavailable.
Note: Complete boys all-tournament team unavailanle.
SUB-VARSITY RESULTS
(GHS scoring only)
NANCY WALLING PFLUGERVILLE SUB-VARSITY TOURNAMENT
JV DIVISION
Semifinals
GHS JV 29, PFLUGERVILLE HENDRICKSON JV 21 — Kylee Sander 4, Hailey Hanson 0, Hailey Smith 8, Maya Perry 6, Mercedes Robledo 9, Keiana San Miguel 3, Alicia King 2. Halftime: PH, 14-6. GHS record: 10-1.
Finals
GHS JV 40, PFLUGERVILLE JV 27 — Sander 7, Hanson 4, Smith 9, Perry 7, Robledo 9, San Miguel 2, King 2. Halftime: GHS, 21-13. GHS record: 11-1.
FRESHMAN DIVISION
Semifinals
CEDAR RIDGE FRESHMAN 33, GHS FRESHMAN BLUE 32 — Meagan Wolfe 0, Graci Harris 12, Jordayn Stout 0, Grace Kearney 0, Megan Herring 6, Lauren Woodard 2, Cheyenne Garcia 0, Skylar Neugent 12, Reece Johnson 0. Halftime: CR 15-13. GHS record: 10-2.
Third Place
GHS FRESHMAN BLUE 33, HUTTO FRESHMEN 18 — Harris 11, Herring 8, Neugent 9, Woodard 3, Kearney 2. Halftime: GHS, 12-10. GHS record: 11-2.
Source: Lady Eagles Basketball.
— By GALEN WELLNICKI