Basketball: Century Girls Advance in Playoffs

Century girls basketball team with stood a rally by North Carroll to advance in the 2A West region 50-44.

"Even when you are up 11, you know the other team is going to make a run at you, which they did," said Knight head coach Joel Beard.

The Panthers had pulled with two points with 32 seconds left, 44-42. Haley Bordner and Jamie Clark strolled to the free line to sink both ends of a one-and-one to give the Knights the final margin of victory.

"I figured it would be a tough game. They played us hard all three times. They beat us up there, we beat them here. I think it’s good my kids know what it’s like to win a playoff game," said Beard. The Knights move on in the playoffs to play fourth seeded Middletown next week.

"We play at Middletown, that will be a tough game for us. We played them earlier in the year and they beat us by 22. So our goal is to see if we are a little bit better this time around," said Beard.

Century was without their third leading scorer Angela Flister for the game.

Late in the second period Century was up by 14 points and went into the locker room at halftime up 30-19.

The Panthers chipped away, but couldn’t tie the game or take a lead. North Carroll led twice in the first period for their only leads of the game.

Bordner led the victors with 11 points. Clark and Alyssia Harris had nine each. Cassidy Jones added eight, Alice Mercer, six; Asa Beall, three and Alyssia Belkins and Victoria Perrone had two each.

"She did a nice job," Beard said about Harris. He went on to point out "Haley Bornder and I thought Jamie Clark got some nice fouls and made some key buckets inside."

The Panthers were led by Shelly Lister with 19 points and teammate Cidney McFarland had 11.