Lady Cobras post 4A league win, 40-24

The Sentinel-Record/Mara Kuhn STEPPING OUT: Fountain Lake’s Amie Westerman (5) drives against Waldron’s Lue Moua during the teams’ 4A-7 conference game Friday night at Bass Gymnasium. Fountain Lake is host today and Monday to a holiday classic including Cutter Morning Star, Harmony Grove and Perryville.
The Sentinel-Record/Mara Kuhn STEPPING OUT: Fountain Lake’s Amie Westerman (5) drives against Waldron’s Lue Moua during the teams’ 4A-7 conference game Friday night at Bass Gymnasium. Fountain Lake is host today and Monday to a holiday classic including Cutter Morning Star, Harmony Grove and Perryville.

FOUNTAIN LAKE -- With Fountain Lake's top two scorers in foul trouble, coach Chris Mungle needed his reserves to make a play. One of his starters and a reserve complied.

Vanessa Nobles grabbed a long offensive rebound on a missed three-point shot and immediately fed Lexie Hood on the low block. Hood's conventional three-point play ignited a 12-2 run for the Lady Cobras' first 4A-7 conference victory, 40-24 over Waldron Friday night at Bass Gymnasium.

"The paper will show Lexie making the three-point play, but the important part was Vanessa getting the ball to her," Mungle said. "It was an important play because I had my two best scorers sitting out at that time and it just got us rolling again."

Waldron (5-5, 0-1) scored on its opening possession of the fourth quarter but not for the last 7:20. The Lady Cobras scored the final nine points.

"I told our kids in the locker room that every one of them missed a critical shot at some point tonight," Waldron coach Chris Vigil said. "We had excellent looks and then were only getting limited to one shot. They went to the boards well. We'd play some good defense, and then they'd get some offensive boards."

Fountain Lake (5-3, 1-1) led 20-8, making seven of its first nine floor shots, although outscored 10-8 in the second quarter. The Lady Cobras were scoreless for the last 4:51 of the first half, following two Bailey Womack free throws, and Waldron got within 22-16 on a 5-0 run.

"We started finally making some shots and playing good defense," Vigil said. "When we came out in the second half, we just couldn't continue it."

Fountain Lake shot better from the field (five of six) than at the line (four of eight) in leading the first quarter 14-6. Pearl Lee had eight points on 4-for-4 shooting and four rebounds in the first, Womack scoring the team's eight points in the second.

Womack finished with a game-high 17 points despite two extended stretches on the bench in foul trouble.

"Bailey does just so many different things for us," Mungle said. "She can rebound, she can score, play defense. She can score in so many different ways, but she's figuring out now she doesn't have to score to be a really good basketball player if she's doing all the little things."

Lee finished with 14 points and nine rebounds, scoring in double figures the last three games.

"Pearl gives us that dominant post presence," Mungle said. "She really gets in there and rebounds the basketball."

Fountain Lake made seven of 13 (54 percent) from the second-half field, going 14 of 22 (64 percent) outside an 0-for-7 spell that bridged halftime.

The Lady Cobras play Harmony Grove at 5 p.m. today and Perryville at 7 p.m. Monday in the Fountain Lake Classic.

Waldron 6 10 6 2 -- 24

Fountain Lake 14 8 9 9 -- 40

Waldron: Harrison 10, Graves 7, Salmon 4, Burdess 3.

Fountain Lake: Womack 17, Lee 14, Johnson 5, Hood 4.

Sports on 12/20/2014

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