Finals from the Girls Game One tonight in the Big Four Tipoff Basketball Event at Page High School:
Smith 58, Grimsley 54 in Overtime
End of First Quarter:Grimsley 6, Smith 3…Halftime:Smith 17, Grimsley 14…End of Third Quarter:Grimsley 34, Smith 32…End of Regulation:Smith 44, Grimsley 44…Overtime Final:Smith 58, Grimsley 54
Smith Scoring:Deberry 21 points…Haith 17, Williams 8, Woods 7, Green 5…
Grimsley Scoring:Blount 23 points with seven 3’s…Graves 12, Simms 8, Lineberry 7, Keaton 2, Jones 2…
Smith with 11 key Free Throws made in the late stages of the game, to help the Golden Eagles get the Victory…Watched the game with Grimsley principal Ged O’Donnell and he likes what he sees in this year’s 2025-25 edition of the Grimsley Whirlies girls basketball team…New Coach Wadelington has the ladies primed and they will be on time…Smith doing some rebuilding, but with Deberry and Little London Haith in the Eagles backcourt, and the way those two shoot free throws, Smith will be a tough team to take down, again this year/season…
Final from the Girls Game Two tonight in the Big Four Basketball Event at Page High School:
Page 45, Dudley 36
End of First Quarter:Page 13, Dudley 4…Halftime:Page 24, Dudley 9…End of Third Quarter:Page 38, Dudley 22…Final:Page 45, Dudley 36…
Page Scoring:Vanore 19 points, Pyrtle 8, Sauls 7, Styers 6, Thompson 4, Grainger 2…
Dudley Scoring:Terry 12 points, Jones 6, Haith 4, Taylor 4, Pass 4, Johnson 4, Baker 2
Page coach Ed Johnson told us after the game that it was the longest 2 and a-half minutes of his life, as he had top play the last 2:30 of the ballgame without his top player, and his point guard, the sophomore guard, and the team’s leading scorer…
Page Pirates leading scorer Lola Vanore fouled out of the contest, and there was still 2 and a-half minutes left to play…Coach Johnson had to trust his other Pirates, and he had some key reserves out there on the court with his remaining starters, somehow his girls just gritted their teeth, locked it down, stay focused, and they won the game..Kids like Madison Grainger, Sauls, Thompson, Hall, Heinzelman, Pyrtle and others were able to pull it off and win the game, as Lola Vanore watched from the Page Pirates bench with her shoes pulled off…Vanore played a heck of a game, but in the end it was her teammates that pulled out the Victory, as Coach Ed Johnson looked on, trying not to pull the rest of his hair out….
Grimsley boys win by 1 over Dudley, and the Smith boys won by around 35 points over Page…Got the Page update, from a Page Pirates boys player, at the Shell Quality Mart(Cone at Battleground) on the way home…
The games move over to Dudley High School on Wednesday….Games will start at around 2:00 in the afternoon…Here is what we are hearing/seeing….
Afternoon Games with:
Game One:Grimsley vs. Dudley Girls
Game Two:Smith vs. Grimsley Boys
Game Three:Page vs. Smith Girls
Game Four:Page vs. Dudley Boys
Saw the two girls games exciting.
But super poor officiating that needs to be cleaned up.
Game changing bad calls.
Grimsley and Dudley girls play at 1:30 or 2:00
Grimsley vs Smith at 3:30
Page and Smith girls play at 5
Page vs Dudley boys 6:30