Pikeville’s quick hands-on defense and pressure chopped down Danville’s size advantage and the Lady Panthers led wire-to-wire in beating the Lady Ads, 61-38, in the All “A” Classic quarterfinals played at McBrayer Arena on Thursday.
The Lady Panthers improved to 18-4 and moved into Friday morning’s semifinals against Covington Holy Cross (19-5) at 8:30 am. Danville suffered just its second loss.
Kyera Thornsbury fired in a game-high 22 points and Trinity Rowe tallied 19 and dished out 10 assists to finish with a double-double in the win. Leighan Jackson scored eight while Rylee Theiss and Kristen Whited added six each. Theiss grabbed 12 rebounds.
Pikeville scored 20 points off 12 Danville turnovers and added 19, second-chance points to scored the 23-point win.
At Richmond
(All ‘A’ Classic quarterfinals)
SCORE BY QUARTERS:
PK (18-4)..16 18 13 14 – 61
DN (19-2)..4 11 17 6 – 38
Scoring:
Pikeville (61) – Trinity Rowe 2(3) 6-6 19; Kristen Whited 2 2-2 6; Kyera Thornsbury 3(4) 4-5 22; Leighan Jackson 4 0-0 8; and Rylee Theiss 3 0-0 6. Totals: 14(7) 12-13 61.
Danville (38) – Love Mays 3(1) 4-5 13; Samantha Bottom 0(1) 0-0 3; Desiree Tandy 5 6-6 16; and Alayah Quisenberry 1(1) 1-2 6. Totals: 9(3) 11-13 38.
Next up: Pikeville (18-4) vs. Covington Holy Cross (19-5), 8:30 am, Jan. 27.