The Lady Blue Devils basketball team went against the Southern Huntingdon County Rockets in Orbisonia on Thursday night in the District 6 2A consolation game. At stake was a chance to qualify for the PIAA playoffs.
The final score of this game was 60-58, with B-A barely squeezing out a victory, but in consolation games all that matters is who won and lost.
B-A is in contention to make the state playoffs, and winning this game kept their hopes alive.
It was a very close matchup between these two teams. The biggest lead in the game was a 10-0 lead by Bellwood-Antis to start the game.
The standout player for the Lady Blue Devils was junior Lilly Gerwert. She recorded a double-double, with an incredible 29 points and 20 rebounds. Over half of Gerwert’s points were three-pointers, knocking down five of them in the game. Seniors Leigha Clapper and Jenna Norton also played a big part in the win. They both dropped 12 points each.
”I was hearing a lot of outside noise, that we weren’t going to win and nobody thought we would be where we were,” Gerwert said. “Everything I did was for my teammates, especially the seniors. We have worked too hard for it to be over then and there.”
On the other side of things, Southern Huntingdon did a good job of getting different players involved. Their top scorer was junior guard Caleigh Clark. Clark had a total of 14 points, including her two three-pointers. Other players for the Rockets such as senior Chloe Brown and senior Haley Ross both had 10 points.
Bellwood-Antis is moving on to play the Keystone Panthers in a PIAA tournament play-in game tomorrow. The winner of this will go on to the state playoffs.
The game will be played at Dubois Area Senior High School. It will start at 7.
