Saturday, February 03, 2024

Lady Royals beat Bath County for 900th win in program history

Amirah Reed made five 3-pointers and scored a career-high 28 points, Lexi Young had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Olivia Hughes hit three 3-pointers and scored 18 points to lead the Mason County Lady Royals to an 81-64 victory over the Bath County Lady Wildcats on Saturday afternoon at the Lady Royals gym.

It was the 900th win in the history of the program.

After trailing 9-5 early in the game, Mason County reeled off 10 straight points that started a 25-5 run.

The Lady Royals took their first 20-point lead at 45-25 with 5:47 left in the third quarter. Bath County closed the gap to 54-44 at the end of the third quarter.

Mason County pushed the lead back to 15 at 64-49. A technical foul was called on the Bath County bench with 4:42 remaining in the game. Hughes hit both technical free throws, then made a 3-pointer to extend the lead back to 20 points.

The Lady Royals had eight steals and scored 39 points off the Lady Wildcats' 24 turnovers.

Mason County (13-9) will host the Harrison County Fillies on Monday night.

Mason County        12 26 16 27  81
Bath County           06 14 24 20  64

Mason County  Reed 28, Hughes 18, Pfeffer 5, Downs-Perry 8, Young 19, Thomas 2, Buttery 1

Bath County  French 13, Barrett 27, Cox 6, Crouch 9, Norris 4, Faried 5

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