Abry Moreno had a good defensive performance for South Hills.
(Covina) – South Hills went scored seven unanswered points in two minutes to defeat Covina 34-31 in the opening round of the Covina Christmas Classic.
The Huskies battled back with 3:44 remaining after the Colts took its only lead of 27-26 on Marissa Clark’s free-throw.
Janelle Dryer and Annie Nonu went to work for South Hills scoring the next seven points to take a six point lead with 58 seconds remaining.
Nonu led all scorers with 19 points and Dryer added eight.
Early on it appeared the Huskies would run away and hide from Covina racing out to an 11-1 lead before Clark muscled her way to a layup with 2:06 remaining. Both teams found it hard to score for the remainder of the quarter.
The Colts came out firing in the second quarter to begin to chip-away on the 10-point lead that South Hills enjoyed. Ashli Baddorf would score six of her team high 13 points in the quarter to help Covina claw its way back.
Baddorf scored at the buzzer to cut the lead to one heading into the halftime break.
Dryer opened the second half with a three-pointer to extend the lead to four, only to have the Colts battle back and tie the score with 1:34 remaining.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F | |||||
| SOUTH HILLS | 11 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 34 | ||||
| COVINA | 3 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 31 | ||||
| SOUTH HILLS | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | 3P | 3PA | POINTS | ||
| Melissa Rodriguez | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Abry Moreno | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Thula Parks | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Vanessa Garcia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Whitney DeShay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sarah Madrigal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Imani Payton | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Jennifer Yu | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Alyssa Murakami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Janelle Dryer | 2 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Annie Nonu | 7 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | ||
| TOTALS | 12 | 42 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 34 | ||
| COVINA | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | 3P | 3PA | POINTS | ||
| Marissa Clark | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Dre Mercado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lily Hu | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Tori Reyes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Karla Rodas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bridgette Mendoza | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Vanessa Zapata | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||
| Ashli Baddorf | 5 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | ||
| Marisa Carrillo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bobbi Nickles | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Karissa Carreon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Elizabeth Velasquez | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Caroline Fa’Anunu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| TOTALS | 12 | 33 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 31 | ||
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