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RFH 2010, Sports
Seniors Honored; Westmoreland Buried
Katie Weeks (in photo at left) put on a demonstration Tuesday night, and it should have been titled, "Shooting Threes: A How To."
The guard scored 25 points in the first half of the HCS girls basketball team's 60-34 win over Westmoreland on Senior Night. Twenty-one of those came on three-point shots that would have made a sniper jealous. Weeks unloaded with ease in the first hald and with each new three, a crowd of her classmates got louder and and louder.
At one point she was five for five behind the arc and ended up five for 12.
"Katie really knows the game," said Coach Jessica Poole. "Her father (JV Coach Gary Weeks) works with Katie and (her younger sister) Lauren and they watch a lot of basketball together and go to SU games. She has become a very smart player. And, she's a good athlete. I'm very glad she stepped up tonight."
Weeks ended the night with 28 points. She also blocked four shots.
Other HCS scoring:
+ Jordan Peterson had 16;
+ Katherine Keever had 10;
+ Hillary Hanson, Brook Furner and Jenna Whyatt each has two.
Weeks got plenty of help Tuesday night. Hamilton continued to play a suffocating press that forced some opportune first-half turnovers. And, the Lady Emerald Knights were not all that ladylike Tuesday as they were especially aggressive on the boards and wrestling the ball away from Westmoreland. HCS held Westmoreland to just 15 points in the first half.
Peterson, Emily Truett, Keever, Whyatt and Furner forced Westmoreland out of its rhythm, blocked shots, made steals and often went two out of three falls on the floor to create jump balls.
"These girls all do the little things that pay off," said Poole. "I couldn't have asked for a better group of kids."
The win makes HCS 11-7 overall and 7-3 in the league. There was a possibility -- depending on the outcome of the Morrisville-Eaton games Tuesday -- that HCS could have wound up in a three-way tie for the league title with Rome Catholic and Oriskany.
Sunday is the seeding meeting for the Section III post-season playoffs.