Girls Playoff Basketball Recap (2/22): Carroll advances and more from Fort Worth area
Girls
Southlake Carroll 51, Boswell 45
The Carroll defense clamped down on a Boswell offense that averaged 62 points per game as the 19th-ranked Dragons beat the No. 15 Pioneers in a Class 6A Region 1 quarterfinal game on Tuesday at Justin Northwest.
Carroll (28-5) advances to the regional tournament for the second straight season and will play No. 5 South Grand Prairie (32-4) in the first regional semifinal game at 6 p.m. Friday at Wilkerson Greines Activity Center in Fort Worth.
The second semifinal will feature LD Bell (29-8) and No. 12 Braswell at 8 p.m.
Last season’s trip to the regional tournament for Carroll snapped a 17-year drought. The Dragons had made it in 2004. However, the season ended against Plano East.
On Tuesday, Carroll set the tone early with an 8-3 lead that forced Boswell to call a timeout with just under five minutes left in the opening period. Carroll got buckets from Camryn Tade, Kylie Swanson and Taryn Barnes.
Boswell’s Nya Robertson, who came in as the top scorer in the Fort Worth area, drilled a three to cut the lead to 14-12 with under a minute left in the quarter. She also has the most threes in the area.
Tade opened the second with one of three threes in the first half and the Dragons were able to grow the lead to 23-14. The lead was still eight midway through the period. Swanson’s baseline jumper and another Tade trey gave the Dragons a 32-22 halftime advantage.
Tade had 14 in the half and Robertson had 11.
Boswell (31-7), applied the pressure in the third quarter first getting an and-one basket from Chloe Mann. Then Miraya Perkins hit a couple of mid range jumpers and the lead was cut to four. Carroll led 40-32 after the third quarter.
Carroll tried to kill some clock when it was called for a charging and Boswell retained possession down six with 3:40 left in the fourth. But Barnes got a big time steal and the Dragons got the clock down to 2 1/2 minutes. Tade made 9 of 10 foul shots in the fourth quarter and the lead extended to 51-42.
Tade finished with 25 points and Swanson added 10. Swanson is the lone senior starter for Carroll this season and Swanson and Tade are the only two returners from last season’s team.
Robertson finished with 16 points in her final high school game. Perkins and Mann chipped in 15 and 11 points.
Dallas Lincoln 56, Midlothian Heritage 46
Heritage’s season came to an end during its 4A Region 2 quarterfinal game on Tuesday in Mansfield. The Jaguars wrap up with a 29-6 record.
Lincoln (20-7) moves on to the regional tournament later this week.
Heritage only trailed by one, 26-25 at the break, but Lincoln came out with a 12-6 third quarter and scored 18 in the fourth to pick up the win.
Jerzie Bryant led Heritage with 16 points. Grace Sweeney and Taysie Trejo added 11 and 10 points for the Jaguars.
Grapevine Faith 54, Tyler Grace 37
Faith held Tyler Grace to five first-quarter points and then poured on 24 points in the second to win its TAPPS 5A area round game on Tuesday.
The win pushed the Lions into the regional round where they take on familiar foe, district rival Fort Worth Southwest Christian, which won on Friday over McKinney Christian.
SCS won both district meetings this season. The regional game will be Friday at 6 p.m. from Grace Prep in Arlington. The winner will advance to the TAPPS 5A state tournament.
Camryn O’Rear led Faith with 17 points while Sophia Girolamo added 14. Lauren O’Rear and MG Delahoz added eight and six points.
LD Bell 37, Euless Trinity 33
Bell and Trinity’s storied rivalry added another chapter as the Blue Raiders edged out their arch nemesis in a 6A Region 1 quarterfinal game on Tuesday at UTA.
LD Bell (29-8) and No. 12 Braswell will play in the regional semis at 8 p.m. in Fort Worth. It’s Bell’s first trip to the regional tournament since 2014. That year, the Raiders reached the regional final.
Trinity (20-14) didn’t win a quarter, but did trail 18-17 at intermission. Bell added to its lead in the third and hung on in the fourth.
Twin sisters Hallie and Jayden Rhodes led Bell with 10 points apiece. Katie Tietjen added nine. Brooklyn Jackson led Trinity with 11. Jayla Stewart and Alisha Nunley added seven each.
Trinity made its deepest playoff run since 2008. The Trojans had beaten 4-6A runner up Keller and 1-6A champ El Paso Franklin in the first two rounds.
This story was originally published February 22, 2022 at 10:23 PM.
