In the third place of its home tournament, the Warrenton Winter Shootout, the host Warriors basically played three games in one.
An extremely undermanned Warrenton played virtually even with …
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In the third place of its home tournament, the Warrenton Winter Shootout, the host Warriors basically played three games in one.
An extremely undermanned Warrenton played virtually even with top-seeded Francis Howell North for two and one-half quarters and, by virtue of a furious comeback, controlled most of the final five minutes.
A serious third-quarter lapse proved too much to overcome, however, as Warrenton fell 61-57.
Warriors coach Hannah Logan said that if the third quarter, which featured Warrenton coming out of the half down by three points only to take a brief lead in the back-and-forth game before trailing at quarter’s end by 10, at 41-31, had been any different, so might have been the final outcome.
After North opened the fourth with a basket, Warrenton’s deficit climbed to 12 before the team began its effort to climb the mountain.
“If we hadn’t had those few minutes in the third quarter when we had bad defense and couldn’t get into a flow on offense, I really think the outcome would have been different,” Logan said. “I’m just really proud of the girls for not giving up when we did get down by 12 there in the beginning of the fourth quarter.”
As it was, a Herculean effort by senior shooting guard Savannah Miller, pressed into duty at the center spot, helped pull her team to within four points.
She tallied 12 of her game-high 24 points in the final eight minutes.
“We were kind of post-less tonight because our team has been dropping like flies,” Miller said. “Zoe (Duncan) has a concussion. Makayla (Witthaus) has the flu and, at tip-off, No. 11 (Emma Flake) hurt her ankle really badly. I think I held my ground really good in the blocks.”
Logan agreed with Miller’s assessment of her play.
“Savannah stepped up to be a leader and that is (what you’d expect) from a senior,” Logan said. “Tonight was a whole new role for her. I thought she took care of herself and handled it really well.”
After Miller’s effort, sophomore guard Claire Goldsmith chipped in a career-high 17 points while senior Sophia Benke added 11 for Warrenton (5-6).
The fourth-place finish marked the best result for the Warriors since the team won its home tournament in January of 2024.
Warrenton will next return to the court on the road at Holt for a game at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
