Girls Basketball’s Rough Start Leads to Loss Verse Green

Green 48, Louisville 40

The Louisville Lady Leopards fell to the Green Bulldogs 48-40 in the consolation match at the Jackson Holiday Classic Tournament Tuesday evening. With the loss, Louisville is now 4-5 overall on the year.

Sarah Lairson scored a game-high 14 points to lead the Lady Leopards. Sabryna Benzel also scored 9 points and had 7 boards, Abby Beaver tallied 9 points and 3 assists, and Grace Jackson grabbed a team-high 8 rebounds.

The Bulldogs took a 15-4 lead at the end of the first quarter and played relatively even with the Leopards the rest of the way. Julia Guyton led Green with a team-high 13 points and 6 boards. Tarah McCausland also had 9 points and Madison Jackson recorded a game-high 13 rebounds.

With the loss, Louisville is now 2-3 against Green all-time with the Bulldogs winning the last two meetings. All 5 games in the series have been played at a neutral location with the last 3 being held in the Jackson Holiday Tournament. Green is 2-1 against the Leopards in those three meetings. View Full All-Time Series

JV: Green 43, Louisville 34

UP NEXT: The Lady Leopards will next host the Carrollton Warriors on Saturday, January 3. JV will begin at 12:00 PM and Varsity will follow at approximately 1:30 PM.

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Varsity Statistics

BULLDOGS 58, LEOPARDS 40

Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL

Green 15-8-10-15–48

Louisville 4-12-10-14–40

GREEN BULLDOGS STATISTICS

Player	FGM	3PM	FTM	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
13J Guyton	4	0	5	3	3	6	0	1	0	4	13
3T McCausland	1	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
31M Jackson	2	0	2	2	11	13	1	0	0	4	6
5McKenzie Black	2	0	2	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	6
2A Pearce	1	0	3	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	5
24L Carson	2	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	5
20J Trainer	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	4
35S Maynard	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	0
33L Giles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	14	2	18	8	22	30	4	3	0	14	48

LOUISVILLE LEOPARDS STATISTICS

Player	FGM	3PM	FTM	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
12Sara Lairson	3	1	7	1	2	3	1	0	0	2	14
15Sabryna Benzel	4	0	1	4	3	7	0	0	0	2	9
11Abby Beaver	4	1	0	0	4	4	3	0	0	3	9
22Emily Hollifield	2	1	0	1	2	3	1	0	0	4	5
20Grace Jackson	1	0	1	2	6	8	2	1	0	5	3
21Ellie Jackson	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
4Alexa Oberster	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	14	3	9	8	19	27	7	1	0	16	40

Records: Louisville 4-5