The Class A North Girls Basketball tournament opened at the Augusta Civic Center with the 3/6 matchup between #3 Hampden Academy and #6 Brewer with what could be called a rock fight.., or a grinder.., or you could just say offensively challenged. Anyway, the Broncos ground the out a 43-27 win over the Witches to move on to the semi-finals. Hampden Academy scored the first 8 points in the game before Jillian Ford hit a 3 to get Brewer on the board. Things evened out a little bit in the 2nd quarter with HA outscoring Brewer by just a 9-7 count and the Broncos led 23-12 at the half.
Hampden Academy put this one away in the 3rd quarter by turning it on offensively with what in this game can only be described as an offensive explosion.., they put 16 points on the board while the Witches could only muster 5 and HA led 39-17 after 3. The Broncos put it in cruiues control in the 4th quarter as Brewer was just never ever able to get anything going at the offensive end. Their sparkplug, pepper pot point guard, Allie Flagg who is usually one of the most entertaining players in the state to watch was held in check all game long and only able to score 7 points on 3 of 9 from the floor. Rylee Bailey also had 7 for Brewer. HA had 2 players in double figures led by Grace LaBree’s 14 and Eve Wiles had 10.
So, while it wasn’t pretty and it won’t win any style points, the Broncos live to play another day and so they’ll take the #2 Cony Rams on Wednesday at 2 at the Augusta Civic Center.
