Washington’s Lady Warriors nabbed second place at the prestigious Bertha Frank Teague Mid-America Classic Basketball Tournament over the weekend.
They had wins over 2A No. 10 Hartshorne (64-57) and 5A McAlester (43-40) before losing to 5A Carl Albert in the finals (42-40).
Sophomore Kelby Beller was selected as the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.
Junior Breanna Lindert was also named to the All-Tournament team.
Head coach Kale Simon was proud of the way his team played defense during the tournament – especially in the finals and semi-finals.
“We haven’t been defending very well early this season and Friday and Saturday we defended really well,” he said.
Hartshorne
Lindert paced the Warriors in scoring in the Hartshorne game with 24.
Sophomore Jayden Wells scored 12 while Preslee Johnson’s 11 and Beller’s 10 rounded out the Warriors scoring in double figures.
McAlester
Beller led the team in scoring against the Buffaloes with 19 points. Lindert scored 13 in the win.
Carl Albert
Washington led a good part of the game but a few late mistakes down the stretch left them unable to close out the win.
“We had a few turnovers late and missed a couple rebounds that kept us from winning it,” Simon said. “But we have really good girls and we have all the pieces to be really good. We just have to do the little things every day and every possession. We need to do the ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
Beller and Lindert were again both in double figures with 14 and 10, respectively.
Washington is now 9-1 on the season and ranked No. 1 in Class 3A.
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