#5 Weatherford avenges earlier loss to KHS girls
EMILY MYERS (3) scored a team-high 13 points last Friday in Kingfisher’s loss to Weatherford. [Photo by Kaitlin St. Cyr]
If Kingfisher was going to get its second win of the season over Weatherford, the Lady Eagles weren’t going to let Peyton Walker lead the charge.
Jordan Hoffman covered and smothered Kingfi sher’s junior point guard for much of the 32 minutes Friday and it helped visiting Weatherford leave the APB with a 37-31 victory.
Walker had scored 15 points and made several crucial plays on both ends of the court just under two weeks prior as KHS knocked off Weatherford 40-35 in the finals of the Buckle of the Wheatbelt Invitational.
This time around, Hoffman was a virtual shadow of Walker’s, especially with the ball in her hands.
It helped stymie the Kingfisher offense as the Lady Jackets had just nine points at halftime.
However, they only trailed by four points as Kingfisher was doing its own work on the defensive end.
Then, in the third, Emily Myers helped bring the offense to life.
The senior guard scored eight points as KHS outscored Weatherford 12-5.
She converted a threepoint play at 4:26 of the third to tie the game at 13-13, which concluded an 8-0 run that stretched back to the second quarter.
Myers then gave KHS its first lead with a 3-pointer at 2:00 of the quarter.
By the end of the third, the Lady Jackets had staked a 21-18 lead over Class 4A’s fifth-ranked visitors.
Myers continued to keep KHS in the game in the final quarter.
Her free throws with 2:35 to play tied the game at 26-all.Weatherford’s Kennedy Stewart quickly answered on the other end to spur a 7-1 run by the Lady Eagles.
But a Myers trey with 42 seconds left pulled KHS within 33-30.
Hoffman and Stewart helped ice the game with two free throws apiece in the closing moments as Kingfisher couldn’t close the distance.
Myers scored 13 to lead the Lady Jackets.
All of them came in the second half.
Addy Matthews scored eight while Weatherford was able to limit Walker to a lone free throw in the fourth quarter.
Hoffman scored 14 to lead Weatherford while Stewart scored 13. The two combined for 15 of the Lady Eagles’ 19 fourth-quarter points.
The loss moved 4A’s fourth-ranked Kingfisher to 15-4 overall and 6-3 in the Western Conference.
The other two losses were to No. 2 Tuttle and No. 3 Bethany.