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HCS Beats Cincy; Waits to Hear Day and Location of Game vs. Mills

Sun, Feb 27, 2011

The high-scoring HCS girls basketball team continued its domination of opponents into Section III Class D play Saturday night, and today finds out when and where they will play their next opponent, New York Mills.

Hamilton moved into the semi-finals of the Section III Class D tournament by hammering Cincinnatus at home 66-25. The Lady Emerald Knights had balanced scoring and racked up 21 points on three-pointers by the Weeks sisters.

The Lady Emerald Knights jumped out to a 17-7 lead in the first period and stretched it to 33-11 at the half. HCS scored the other half of its points while holding Cincy to just 14 in the second half.

Hamilton's Katie Weeks drilled four threes and a total of 20 points to lead all scorers. Sara Whyatt had 14 and Jordan Peterson had 12. Lauren Weeks hit for three threes and nine points. Katherine Keever had six, Jess Welsh (up from the JV for the sectionals) and Hayleigh Hanson has two each and Kelby Watkins had one.

Section III basketbal officials meet at 2 p.m. today to decide where the third-seeded Hamilton will face number two NY Mills and on which day this week.

HCS split their two games during the regular season with NY Mills.

Hamilton       17  16  15  18--66
Cincinnatus    7     4    7    7--25

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