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Howe Head Coach Derek Lands discusses strategy during a timeout in the heated fourth period. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise. which seconds later became the final score. After Dean's would-be gamewinning shot, Howe still had a chance with 21.94 seconds remaining as Howe Head Coach Derek Lands called a full timeout to gather a plan to score. With the ball in Jenna Honore's hands on the right wing dribbling to the right corner with pressure from Jessiah Riley, the ball went off of Honore and out of bounds. This led to three quick desperation fouls to send Mineola to the line. During the second foul, Honore, the district defensive MVP, seemed to be in position to draw the charge on Dean, but a blocking call was made instead which virtually eliminated a serious threat for a last-second comeback. Dean missed her free throw which was rebounded by Honore who found the District 103A MVP Ally Harvey at halfcourt for a last-second heave from her hip that missed going in by a foot to the right. Soon afterward, an eruption from the crowd in orange and their head coach Troy Riley who ran to the Lady Jacket crowd and underarm flexed his muscles which sent the crowd into a frenzy.
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get Honore off balance for the goahead score and Honore answered back with an outstanding defensive drawn charge. The only problem for Howe was - the charge wasn't called. Howe started the game strong with Molly Wilson scoring the game's first points. The Lady Bulldogs did a nice job early of breaking the quick Mineola press, meanwhile, Honore held Dean scoreless in the first as Howe led 9-6 after the first eight minutes of the game. Mineola had to rely on a 3-pointer by Meghan Brewington for half of the Lady Jackets first points. As the second period began, Howe's usually sharp-shooting long ball specialist Cassidy Anderson, named the district's offensive MVP, started cold by missing on her first five 3point attempts in the half. As Howe went cold, Dean began to heat up after starting 0-for-7 from the field scoring six of the Lady Jackets' eight second period points.
Midway through the second with Howe clinging to a 5-point lead, 115, Anderson was subbed for sophomore Sierra Copeland and Wilson for sophomore Katie This year's version of Lands' team Grogan. Seconds later Dean hit her was built heavily around defense first two buckets of the game in with five starters with exceptional back-to-back fashion to cut the abilities to lock-down their Howe lead to 11-10. With three opponent. The individual matchup minutes remaining before the half, of Honore versus Dean proved to Honore fouled Dean on a 3-pointer be the girls 3A basketball version which she made 2-of-3 foul shots to of Ali-Frazier. Neither player left give the Lady Jackets a 14-13 lead the floor for the entire game and as which became the halftime score. expected, the game came down to that matchup in the most The Lady Bulldogs came out of the meaningful final moments. Dean page 6 made the great ball-fake move to
Bulldog junior Jenna Honore after a controversial foul call that didn't go Howe's way in the final ticks of Tuesday night's regional quarterfinal playoff game in Princeton. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise.
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