Sabine girls now 2-0 in district play

Photo by John Niesner ANOTHER GAME, ANOTHER WIN — Hunter Powdrill and the Sabine Cardinals won two more games Friday as a part of the program's Last Man Standing tournament, which continued on Saturday. Also on Friday, Sabine's girls won on the road, beating Winona and moving to 2-0 in District 18-2A. The Sabine High School Lady Cardinals will head into the holiday break with the advantage on their District 18-2A rivals.

Sabine blistered Winona in Winona, 52-25, on Friday night, and the Lady Cards are now 2-0 in 18-2A (and an impressive 13-2 on the season to date).

Sabine will take the weekend and next week off, then play in the Leonard Tournament Dec. 29-31. After that, the Lady Cardinals resume district play with a home game against Harleton Jan. 2.

The girls are coached by Paul Bell.

For Sabine, Cortnee Ryan led the way again with 13 points. She had seven assists, seven steals and four rebounds. Alex Easley also hit double-figures with a 10-point night. She had a steal and four rebounds.

Katy Strange scored seven, had three steals and three rebounds, and Ashley Gadson also scored seven, with three steals, seven rebounds and two assists.

Shayla Gossett had four points, three steals and five rebounds. Lindsay McClain had four points, a rebound, three steals and two assists. Jamaie Simmons had three points, four rebounds, two steals, and an assist, and Cassie Headley had two points, four steals, three assists and a rebound. Jessica Woodruff scored two points to round out the scoring, and also grabbed three rebounds and a steal.

Quis Robertson led Winona with 12 points.

• Cards win two: While the girls were picking up a district win, the Sabine Cardinals were getting in more tune-up work in their own Last-Man-Standing tournament.

Sabine defeated Central Heights of Nacogdoches, 39- 35, in the late game on Friday, and earlier in the day, the Cardinals had routed Carlisle, 67- 33.

Sabine, state-ranked fifth in Class 2A, is now 15-3 on the season. Coach Tim Davis' team was to continue in the tournament Saturday morning against Gladewater at 10, with other games, obviously, to follow.

Noah Jackson hit four threepoint shots for Sabine, and finished with 16. Lie'Quan Byrd had 12, Colton Kirk seven and Jacob Kenna five in a low-scoring game. Byrd broke a 35-all tie with a three-pointer with just over a minute left in the game.

In their first game of the day, Sabine won big, blasting Carlisle by 44 points. The Cardinals outscored Carlisle 23-3 in the second quarter, and led 39-11 at halftime.

Byrd, Hunter Powdrill and Jackson all got into double-figures in the game — Byrd finished with 11, and Powdrill and Jackson had 10 each in the victory. Kenna finished with nine, Zach Royce and Jerrel Chumley seven each, Chance Haskins five, Kirk four, Josh Montana three and Tyler Woodrell one.

Byrd had three three-pointers in the game, and coach Davis played his reserves the entire second half.

The Cardinals will take a few days off after this tournament, and won't be back in action until Tuesday, Dec. 30 at home against Gladewater. Sabine's boys open district play Jan. 2 against Harleton.