WHITE’S NIGHT
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FRESHMAN Logan White scored 21 points in Okarche’s district championship win last Saturday. [Photo by Chris Simon/ www.simon-sports-photos.smugmug.com]
It was Logan White’s night.
The Okarche freshman scored a career-high 21 points Saturday to lead the Lady Warriors to a 50-38 win at home against Cherokee in their Class A district championship game.
White scored 15 points in the second half, which is also when Okarche broke open a tie game to outscore the Lady Chiefs by 12.
“The potential has been there,” said coach Brett Tahah of the 5-foot-11 center, noting that White has averaged close to 20 points in Okarche’s junior high games this season.
“She just went off on Saturday.”
White was 10 of 11 from the field and made her lone free throw.
That free throw closed out a three-point play in the fourth quarter when she scored nine points and Okarche outscored Cherokee 16-7.
The Lady Warriors held Cherokee to just four field goals in the second half, cutting in half the Lady Chiefs’ first-half production.
White had four field goals in the fourth by herself.
Okarche also got a big 3-pointer and a pair of free throws from Katie Parham in the final frame.
Parham made five 3-pointers overall and finished with 17.
She made two of her treys and scored all but one of Okarche’s points in the first quarter when the Lady Warriors fell behind 12-7.
They tied it up by halftime as White scored six points.
She added six more in the third as the Lady Warriors staked their threepoint lead going into the fourth.
Cherokee didn’t have a player in double figures. Chesney Berry and Naomi Heim scored nine apiece. They combined for just two points in the fourth.
Okarche is 18-8 and takes a four-game win streak into this week’s regional.
The 20th-ranked Lady WarriorsplayNo. 16Garber (18-5) at 6 p.m. Thursday on Garber’s home court. The Lady Wolverines have won seven straight and 12 of their last 13.
The remainder of the regional will be played at Okarche.
Warriors start playoff quest with 63-point win
On any given night, any number of the Okarche Warriors can light up the scoreboard.
Last Saturday happened to be Easton Roby’s night.
The junior torched Cherokee for 33 points as No. 1 Okarche won a Class A district title with a 99-36 win at home.
The victory pushed Okarche to 26-0 on the season. The Warriors play Garber at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to open the regional tournament in Garber.
The remainder of the regional will be played at Okarche.
The Chiefs fell prey to Okarche’s pressure and turned it over 36 times.
That resulted in 44 Okarche points, many of them in the first half when the Warriors led by 16 after a quarter and by 36 at the break.
Roby was doing his part.
He went 5 of 11 from 3-point range and 8 of 10 inside of it.
He added five rebounds as well.
The Warriors also got 20 points, nine boards and six assists from Jett Mueggenborg.
The junior guard also had four steals, as did Hunter Mueggenborg. The latter chipped in six points and six assists.
Ethan Kirby added 12 points for Okarche.
As a team, the Warriors had 26 assists and only six turnovers.