Strong fourth quarter gives Tift County girls win over Lee County
Joe Whitfield
By Joe Whitfield
Sports Editor
LEESBURG — Tift County’s Lady Blue Devils held the Lady Trojans of Lee County to just four fourth-quarter points Saturday night and defeated the Lady Trojans 58-40 at Lee County High School. The win improves Tift County’s record to 11-4 overall and 3-1 in the region where they are second behind Veterans. Lee County is now 7-9 overall and fourth in the region at 1-2.
Tift County led almost the entire game but the Lady Trojans stayed close until the fourth quarter when nothing went the Lady Trojans’ way. After Tift County jumped out to a 14-7 first-quarter lead, Lee County tied the game 21-21 in the second quarter after Trojan point guard Kennedy Snead stole the ball and scored lay-ups on two consecutive plays. Tift County scored a free throw later to lead 22-21 going into the break.
Tift County built a 33-24 lead midway through the third quarter before Bayinnah Citlak swished a three for the Lady Trojans and Snead added one also to close the Tift lead to just 39-34. Snead added two more free throws just before the half to make the score 39-36 heading into the final quarter.
The fourth quarter was all Tift County. The Lady Blue Devils outscored Lee County 19-4 in the quarter and took advantage of all the calls that went their way. The Lady Trojans were whistled for seven personal fouls in the quarter, compared to just one for the Lady Blue Devils.
Snead led the Lady Trojans with 20 points in the loss and her teammate Jarnyria Maddox added 10.
Lee County will be away Tuesday night at Houston County and then host Northside of Warner Robins Friday night.
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