High School Basketball: Century Girls Top Owings Mills, Move Onto State Finals

pulled away from Owings Mills during Friday's Class 2A state semifinals, handily defeating the Eagles 47-20 at UMBC’s RAC Arena.

The Knights move on to play Calvert High School in the state finals Saturday, March 10 at 1 p.m. 

Owings Mills (13-12) committed 27 turnovers and shot just 8 of 37 (22 percent) from the field.

“To Century’s credit, they came out with a great game plan,” Eagles head coach Donchez Graham said. “They are a really sound defensive team and they got after us. They got some layups and some timely shooting and got out to that early advantage.”

Although they trailed by only six points coming out of the first quarter, the Eagles quickly saw the game get away from them in frame number two.

Owings Mills’ only lead of the game came when sophomore Briana Bull (team-high seven points, five boards) sank a three pointer from the wing to go ahead 3-2 a minute into the first quarter.

However, Century responded by reeling off 10 unanswered points before freshman Jordan Gaer drilled a jumper from the baseline to end the run.  

Despite their better record going in, Century players said they ignored the numbers and took it to the Eagles just like they would any other team.

“I definitely think that we weren’t really focused on their record as much as we were focused on other things,” Knights forward Haley Bordner said. “I think one thing that’s always been kind of our thing throughout the entire year is that we’re not really focused on who we’re playing.  We’re focused more on what we have to do to get the job done.”   

BOX SCORE

Century 47, Owings Mills 20

OM – 6 4 6 4 ---- 20

C – 12 15 12 8 ---- 47

OM – Bull 7, McIntosh 5, Parker 3, Gaer 2, Huttenberger 2, Forbes.

C – Mercer 11, Clark 10, Jones 8, Flister 5, Bordner 4, Dixon 4, Nichols 3, Patten 2.

Half: 27-10, Century.