The Pigeon Forge Lady Tigers mastered a good balance between their defensive and offensive play to register a comfortable win over Washburn Lady Pirates on Thursday night.
From the first 5 minutes, the Lady Tigers put on a good defense to keep Lady Pirates from scoring and remained solid all through the entire third quarter to emerge the 59-30 winners.
Pigeon Forge head coach Emory Cain admitted his team has had trouble in the past defending but was proud of the effort the team put up to restrain tough opponents from penetrating his team’s defense.
He said “We have had trouble in the past of keeping people in front of us, we have done a really good job of keeping people in front of us in our zone and out of the middle this year even when we have played tough teams.”
“We had a couple players who have really did rebounding really well to deny them many second chance points like in the past.” Cain added.
Following a 9-0 beginning to the contest for the Pigeon Forge (4-6), Washburn could not register a single score until the last 2:59 minutes of the first quarter. Their small joy, however, was short-lived as Lady Tigers’ Halle Hensley and Paiton Whaley responded with a back-to-back three pointers which took their lead to 15-3.
The Lady Tigers improved on transition moves in the second quarter of the game with Madelyn Hawkins and Hensley scoring on back-to-back layups off turnovers taking their lead to 24 points, 32-8.
“We put in a half court trap in the last week to get us going a little bit. Any time you can dominate a team and get easy scores, then you can leave them with a clear margin,” said. “We got more possessions, and it helps when you get layups early to gain confidence.”
The leading scorers for the Lady Tigers were Ana Naas with 19, Whaley with 14 and Sarah Teaster who scored 12.
It is the Lady Tigers who took the lead with the first seven points in the third quarter of the game. Washburn later scored from a lay up with 39 seconds left on the clock. However, the Lady Tigers through Whaley responded with a three pointer.
This year, the Pigeon Forge have not scored higher than the 59 points they had in this game. It is this offensive dominance that Cain hopes will carry his team on in the remainder of the games.
He acknowledged the need for an offensive attitude in the game by saying “having a game where your offense is clicking and you get some easy buckets helps going forward,”
The next game for Pigeon Forge was against Knoxville Christian on Friday night which was canceled.
Pigeon Forge are set to take on Seymour on Monday night.
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