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A ‘phenomenal’ day for Southeastern girls
Phenomenal.
That’s the only way Southeastern coach Jim Lightle could describe his team’s 52-42 D-IV district final victory over
“I thought going into the year we had a good team that could possibly do this,” Lightle said. “We didn’t really play that well at times in the regular season. We picked it up in the tournament.”
The Trojans will make their first appearance in the regional semifinal since 2005-2006.
“It feels great,” Lightle said. “Everything now is the icing on the cake. You just go out now and have fun and play basketball. Whatever happens, happens.”
Game plan perfection: Lightle credited assistant coaches Tim Bell and Sue Hupp for coming up with a great to attack Houston. The Trojans chose to face guard Wildcats PG Jaclyn Willoughby, who came into the game averaging 13.8 ppg and made over 50 3-pointers this season.
“We face guarded Willoughby,” Lightle said. “We wanted to make her work as much as possible because they were used to walking the ball up the floor and conserving energy. I was tempted to get out of it in the first quarter and I’m thinking ‘This isn’t going to work’. We gave up a couple easy back door (layups) and the help wasn’t there because we were face guarding her. She’s a heck of a ballplayer — she still scored 13. There three big girls all played well. We stuck with our gameplan and I think we wore them down towards the end a little bit.
“I can’t give enough credit to (assistant coaches Tim Bell and Sue Hupp) for the game plan and trying to wear them down after we scouted them,” Lightle continued. “We stuck with it and it worked.
“It could’ve gone the other way when the game was close,” Lightle said. “It could’ve been a 10-point lead on their end. It could’ve gone either way. (Amanda Harvey) did a great job on the boards toward the end, (Amber Hayslip) stepped her game up and Katie Banion played well.”
Banion and sophomore Shelby Hocter were the two players who guarded Willoughby for most of the game.
“You’ve got to be in shape to face guard somebody and I thought Shelby came in and did what she could being a sophomore,” Lightle said. “She’s only really played in two varsity games that mean something and she did a great job.”
Sophomore Hannah Bowman had eight points, nailing two big 3-pointers. Her last 3-pointer with six minutes remaining spurred a 15-5 run for the Trojans to end the ballgame.
“She’s a kid that’s getting more and more confidence as she regains confidence in her knee,” Lightle said. “She’s putting that behind her know and that takes awhile. When you blow your knee out twice, it takes awhile to get over that mentally and she did a great job.”
The Trojans made just 4 of 11 free throws in the first half, but made 11 of 12 in the fourth quarter.
“That’s when it counts,” Lightle said. “You have to do the fundamentals of the game and that’s one of them. If they’re going to give you a free shot, you have to make them. We did in the fourth quarter and they didn’t.”
Not a freshman anymore: Jenna Erwin had 17 points in her first district appearance for Southeastern. She scored six points in the second quarter and nine in the fourth.
“It was awesome just being there with my teammates,” Erwin said. “In the second quarter, I felt like I needed to drive a little more and dish.”
Erwin grew up hearing stories of past Southeastern district and regional appearances from her mom, Jeanine Ferguson, her aunts Laura and Carrie Ferguson and her uncle, Mike Ferguson. All four helped the boys and girls basketball teams advance to the regionals at some point during their careers. Her cousins, Kari and Kati Kitchen, also played in the regionals for Southeastern.
Erwin is happy she can keep the family tradition alive.
“I’ve seen pictures from my mom and my aunts and uncles and I just wanted to be there, too,” Erwin said.
Spectacular senior year: Amber Hayslip spoke for the entire SE senior class — which includes Harvey and Banion — when she described her feelings on the victory.
“It is unbelievable,” Hayslip said. “It’s just crazy. I’m speechless.”
Hayslip remembered being awestruck in the Trojans’ last district appearance during her freshman season. That wasn’t the case on Saturday.
“It feels so much better as a senior,” Hayslip said. ” As a freshman, this place was so much bigger. You’re googly-eyed and you just don’t want to mess up. As a senior, you can go out and work hard and play your heart out because it could be your last game. It just feels incredible.”
Free throw shooting, Hayslip said, proved to be the difference.
“That was definitely what clinched it,” Hayslip said.
Hayslip also credited her teammates.
“I love my girls,” Hayslip said. “I couldn’t do it without them. They’re great.”
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