Visitors to Elgin offen find time to feast at two of the region’s most-popular barbecue joints, but the Georgetown Lady Eagles basketball program enjoyed a different kind of feast on a chilly Friday night in the Bastrop County town.
Georgetown’s varsity, junior varsity and Freshman Blue turned the Wildcats’ gym into a pit of misery for the host school. The three GHS teams outscored their Elgin counterparts by a combined 177-25.
The varsity prevailed 65-17 to improve to 3-0 in the District 19-5A race to share second with Rouse and stand just behind Cedar Park, which improved to 4-0 with a 46-35 win over East View. The JV prevailed 56-12 and the Freshman Blue won 50-6.
“I was very pleased with the play of both the freshmen and JV tonight,” Georgetown coach Rhonda Farney said. “Each team played good defense and shot the ball well.
” I was particularly pleased with our varsity teams’s passing and execution on offense. It led to shooting a higher percentage from the floor especially behind the arc.”
The Lady Eagles, winners of five of their last six starts, will try to remain at or near the top of the 19-5A standings at 7 p.m. Tuesday when they play struggling Bastrop at Eagle Gym. The Bears are 1-3 in district and are coming off a surprising 58-56 loss to Bastrop Cedar Creek on Friday. Bastrop opened district play with a 61-50 win over East View before losing to Rouse, 67-38, and Cedar Park, 53-38.
Tuesday’s schedule will be headlined by the first meeting of the season between front-runners Cedar Park and Rouse on the Timberwolves hardwoods.
For Georgetown, the Lady Eagles posted several season bests against an Elgin team that saw only three players break into the scoring column. Bests included most points in a game, 65 (prevous best, 55), fewest points allowed in a game, 17 (previous best, 20), lowest shooting percentage by an opponent, 9 percent, 3 of 33 attempts, including one of 13 beyond the arc.
The Lady Eagles have now held six of their last nine opponents to 30 or fewer points.
While Elgin was unable to find the basket, Georgetown was having one of its best offensive night’s of the campaign, making 51 percent of its shots (27 of 52, including eight of 16 from beyond the arc).
Georgetown took an 18-4 lead in the first quarter as Elgin scored its only two 2-point baskets of the game in the openinbg 5:38 of the contest. The Lady Eagles increased their advantage to 39-7 as the Wilcats made just three of four free throws. It was 55-15 after three as Elgin scored its only 3-pointer in the period.
Sophomore McCall Hampton, who scored 14 points in the first half, led GHS with 16 points and added rebounds, while senior Josie Weirich, who dropped in four treys, and junior Jaelyn Knight added 14 and 10 points, respectively. Junior Samari O’Brien shared the rebounding lead with Hampton with eight. Other leaders for GHS were Kylie Ellsworth with five assists, senior Maddie Vickers with four steals and junior Jade Smith with two blocks.
Eight of the nine Lady Eagles scored with Ellsworth adding seven and junior Ali Isbell and O’Brien each addinf six.
Georgetown’s biggest divot was at the free-throw line as it made just three of 12 attempts.
The GHS JV posted a balanced attack against Elgin with Maya Perry scoring 11 and Kylee Sander, Haily Smith and Mercedes Robledo each adding nine. Kieanna San Miguel and Alicia King scored eight each. All are sophomores expect King, a junior.
On the freshman level, Graci Harris scored 25 with Lauren Woodard and Skylar Neugent each adding eighth points.
In sub-varsity games Tuesday with Bastrop, the JV will play in Eagle Gym at 5:30 p.m. and Freshmen Blue will play in the lower gym at the same titme.
DISTRICT 19-5A GAME
At Elgin, Friday, Dec. 8
VARSITY
GEORGETOWN 65, ELGIN 17
GHS (65) — Ali Isbell 2-6 0-0 6, Josie Weirich 5-9 0-0 14, Samari O’Brien 3-5 0-2 6, Kylie Ellsworth 3-7 0-0 7, Mackenzy Mouton 1-2 0-1 2, Jaelyn Knight 5-10 0-0 10, Maddie Vickers 1-2 1-4 4, Smith 0-2 0-2 0, Hampton 7-9 2-3 16. Totals: 27-52 3-12 65.
ELGIN (17) — Tiffany Abernathy 0-0 0-0 0, Alexia Hernandez 0-6 0-0 0, Mariah Bailey 0-3 -4 0, AlyssaRandall 0-6 0-0 0, Shanice Ross 1-6 3-6 5, Kaitlyn Nelson 0-0 0-0 0, Jessica Navejas 0-2 0-0 0, Andrenique Roberson 1-6 3-4 5, Brianhanna Aquirre 1-4 4-6 7, Zane Bledsoe 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 3-33 10-20 17.
Halftime: GHS, 37-7. 3-point scoring: GHS 8-16 (Isbell 2-4, Weirich 4-7, Ellsworth 1-3, Vickers 1-2); EHS 1-13 (Hernandez 0-4, Bailey 0-1, Randall 0-3, Ross 0-3, Aguirre 1-2). Rebounds: GHS 40 (O’Brien 8, Hampton 8, Smith 5, Isbell 5, Ellsworth 4, Knight 4: EHS 15 (Ross 5). Assists: GHS 18 (Ellsworth 5, Smith 3, O’Brien 3). Steals: GHS 13 (Vickers 4, Knight 3). Blocks: GHS 3 (Smith 2, Mouton 1). Turnovers: GHS 16, EHS 20. Total fouls: GHS 18, EHS 18. Fouled out: none. Technical fouls: none. Records: Georgetown 3-0 in 19-5A, 10-5; Elgin, 1-3 in 19-5A, 4-9.
DISTRICT 19-5A RACE AT A GLANCE
Standings: Cedar Park, 4-0; Rouse, 3-0; Georgetown, 3-0; Pflugerville Connally, 2-1; Bastrop, 1-3; Hutto, 1-3; Elgin, 1-3; Bastrop Cedar Creek, 1-3; East View, 0-3.
Friday’s results: Georgetown 65, Elgin 17; Cedar Park 46, East View 35; Cedar Creek 58, Bastrop 56; Connally 52, Hutto 50. Bye: Rouse.
Tuesday’s games: Bastrop at Georgetown, 7 p.m.; East View at Cedar Creek, 7 p.m.; Rouse at Cedar Park, 7 p.m.; Elgin at Connally, 7 p.m. Bye: Hutto.
Friday’ games: Georgetown at East View, 6 p.m.; Cedar Creek at Rouse, 7 p.m. Connally at Bastrop, 7 p.m.; Hutto at Elgin, 7 p.m. Bye: Cedar Park.
Tuesday (Dec. 19) games: Rouse at Georgetown, 7 p.m.; East View at Connally, 7:30 p.m.; Bastrop at Hutto, 7 p.m.; Cedar Park at Cedar Creek, 7 p.m. Bye: Elgin.
(Christmas break begins)
SUB-VARSITY GAMES
(GHS scoring only)
GHS JV 56, ELGIN JV 12 — Kylee Sander 9, Hailey Hanson 2, Hailey Smith 9, Maya Perry 11, Mercedes Robledo 9 SueEllen Albrecht 0, Keiana San Miguel 8, Alicia KIng 8. Halftime: GHS, 32-8. GHS record: 3-0 in 19-5A, 13-1.
GHS FRESHMEN BLUE 50, ELGIN FRESHMAN A 6 — Meagan Wolfe 4, Graci Harris 25, Jordyn Stout 3, Grace Kearney 0, Megan Herring 2, Lauren Woodard 8, Skylar Neugent 8. Halftime: GHS, 25-3. GHS record: 3-0 in 19-5A, 13-2.
Sourse: Lady Eagles Basketball
— By GALEN WELLNICKI