Boerne Champion and Georgetown were engaged in a serious defensive battle Tuesday night at Kyle Lehman to open the first round of the 5A girls basketball playoffs.
Points were hard to come by for both teams and nothing was easy for the Lady Chargers or Lady Eagles, but Georgetown did manage to pull out the 27-15 victory.
Champion ends its season at 26-8 overall and will graduate six seniors.
One of the Champion seniors, Khiara Flugence, scored 10 of the team’s 15 points in Tuesday’s matchup against the Eagles squad that is led by the winningest active coach in the nation with more than 1,200 victories, Rhonda Farney.
Flugence scored the game’s first four points against Georgetown to give the Chargers a 4-0 lead. The Eagles hit two free throws with 30 seconds left in the opening quarter and the first period ended with a baseball-like score of 4-2.
Georgetown drained a couple of 3s in the second for the only points of the period as the Lady Chargers were kept off the board for the entire stanza.
The Eagles went into halftime with an 8-4 advantage as both defenses didn’t allow too many good looks.
Champion had its best quarter of the game in the third with 7 points but Georgetown topped that with 8 points and opened up a five-point advantage at 16-11.
In the third, Flugence made two free throws and a 2-point basket, while Kristen Borgerding completed a 3-point play with a bucket and a free throw.
The Eagles tallied the first six points of the fourth quarter and had doubled up the Chargers at 22-11 with three minutes left.
Georgetown went into a stall and forced Champion to start fouling. The Eagles were good at the line and went 7 of 8 from the charity stripe in the final stanza. Georgetown finished with 11 points in the fourth and 7 were at the line.
For the Chargers in the fourth, Addison Hankins came up with a steal and scored on a layup and then Flugence added a 2-point bucket with less than a minute remaining on the clock to round out the scoring.
Flugence had 10 points, Borgerding added 3 and Hankins had 2 and that was it offensively for Champion.
Khiara Flugence, Kristen Borgerding, Emily Plank, Kendall Skipper, Grace Menzies and Adri Davenport will all graduate for the Chargers.
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