Shady Spring – On their way to an early blowout, the Class AA-AAA Chick-fil-A All-Stars righted the ship but the Class A-AAAA Jan Care All-Stars closed strong.
Behind a game-high 20 points and eight rebounds from George Washington’s Siya Smith, Jan Care secured a 77-65 victory over Chick-fil-A Saturday in the Little General-Scott Brown Memorial Classic at Shady Spring High School.
Jumping out to a 12-0 lead and holding CFA scoreless for nearly six minutes, Jan Care was poised to run away with the victory but a 15-3 run over the final four-and-a-half minutes of the first quarter, powered by James Monroe’s Maggie Boroski dispelled that notion.
“It makes you feel comfortable when you get that lead,” Jan Care and Greenbrier West head coach Mark Agee said. “I wish we could do that every game. You get a lead and everybody can relax and clam down a little bit. They got an excellent chance to display their skills tonight. We’ve got some great athletes in the state in single- and quadruple-A ball. It was a pleasure to coach tonight and I think there were four off the team I was coaching that are already signed to play college ball.”
Smith, who earned MVP honors, scorched the nets early, scoring nine points in the opening frame off a trio of 3s.
“I was little rusty but I still shot the ball,” Smith laughed. “I just shot it when I was open and hoped it would go in and it did.”
The CFA squad continued its rally, trailing 39-35 at the break, eventually taking its first lead of the afternoon at 42-40.
But behind the trio of Smith, Kenzie Browning (Tug Valley) and Allie Daniels (Spring Valley), Jan Care retook the 52-50 heading into the final quarter and held on from there, making 13 of 26 shots inside the arc in the second half.
Daniels finished with a double-double, adding 11 rebounds to her 14 points. CFA placed four in double figures led Maggie Boroski’s 16 points. Joining her were PikeView’s Riley Meadows (11), Wyoming East’s Cadee Blackburn (12) and Mingo Cenral’s Addie Smith (16).
Wyoming East’s Alivia Monroe also had a standout game with 16 rebounds, 10 of which came on the offensive glass.
“You watch me coach a game and normally I’m up yelling more than anybody else out there,” Agee said. “When you can watch them work through on their own, it gives credit to their athletic ability, their knowledge of the game and honestly it gives credit to their coaches over the years that have shown them and been good for them.”
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Addie Smith won the 3-point shootout before the game, netting 16 3-pointer to edge Spring Valley standout Dria Parker.
