\nLindsey scored five in the overtime, 10 in the fourth quarter and a game-high 23 overall to lead her team to the state semifinals. Routt (27-6) plays Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City at 12:15 p.m. Friday at Redbird Arena in Normal. The winner plays Saturday for the state title, and the loser plays for third place.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cComing into the fourth, I hadn\u2019t really contributed and I knew I had to step up,\u201d Lindsey said. \u201cEarly in the fourth, we got a couple of nice passes to get the offense going, and everything flowed from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nLindsey also was trying to make up for a ghastly mistake at the end of regulation. With her team leading 45-43 and 14.5 seconds left, Lindsey inbounded the ball under the far basket. But her pass went directly to Havana freshman Kelsey Snowden.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI was so furious with myself when I did that,\u201d Lindsey said. \u201cI knew I had to make up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSnowden dribbled into the frontcourt, dished to Brown and headed for the right baseline. Brown drove the lane and found Snowden wide open for a 10-footer that forced overtime.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI was really pleased with some of the things that Snowden did,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cBut overall, I think our youth showed tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTurnovers and free throws plagued Havana. The Ducks turned over the ball 30 times and finished 8-for-20 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFundamentally, we just didn\u2019t play very well, and that\u2019s what disappoints me the most,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe turned the ball over, we didn\u2019t box out, we didn\u2019t trail people into the lane, all things we did at the start of the year but have really struggled with recently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe loss to Routt marks the second successive supersectional loss for Havana (30-5) \u2014 both in overtime. Havana dropped a 69-62 double-OT decision to Brimfield in 2009.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI don\u2019t really have an answer,\u201d said Wilson, who also said assistant coach Scott Meyers had a good point. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe said the last game we played really hard and really well was against Knoxville, and that was in January,\u2019\u2019 Wilson said. \u201cWe kind of saw it coming and tried everything we could to stop it, but we couldn\u2019t do it.\u201d Read the original article from Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n For 34 games, the Havana girls basketball team hadn\u2019t played like it was starting four sophomores and a junior. But Monday night, in the Class 1A Jacksonville Supersectional, the Ducks ran into a veteran Jacksonville Routt squad, and their youth was exposed in a 54-47 overtime loss. \u201cThat had to be it,\u2019\u2019 Havana coach Jerry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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