The expectations are high for the Lawrence Bulldogs in this year’s Class A Basketball Tournament. Obviously. The Bulldogs came in undefeated at 18-0 with most of those wins of the double digit, blowout variety. Well, last night was another win of the double digit, blowout variety as the Bulldogs boat raced the Nokomis Warriors by a score of 77-36. So, with that final.., Maddie Provost must’ve gone off for 30 or something.., right? Nope, Lawrence’s star junior “only” had 13 but she spent most of the night setting up her teammates with 9 dimes. A few of them to her running mate in the Bulldogs backcourt, Ashley Shores who led Lawrence with 16 points and a few of them to one of two of Lawrence’s bigs, Lily Gray who chimed in with 14 points as Lawrence toyed with Nokomis and had 10, yes 10 players get on the score sheet.
The Bulldogs certainly have a superstar in Provost but they are WAY more than her and they proved it again last night by getting points from nearly eveyrone who played and by playing jailhouse defense. Lawrence allowed just one Nokomis player to score in double figures and that was Raegan King who had 11 points. Lawrence held the Warriors to just 33% shooting while shooting 49% themselves. No complacency and no taking their first round opponents lightly for the Bulldogs who were all business all ballgame long and looked like they have their eyes squarely on the prize of their second Class A title and 3 years.
Lawrence next plays #4 Camden Hills on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 at the Augusta Civic Center.
