The Deer basketball team fought hard but ultimately fell to the Blanco Lady Panthers Friday night by eight points.
With the loss the Deer fall to 7-16 overall and 1-2 in District 5-3A play. They traveled to Florence on Tuesday.
Prior to that, Comfort defeated Llano in overtime.
Vs. Blanco
Blanco won Friday’s contest, 36-28.
It was a slow first quarter for both and the Deer were up 5-3, but Blanco took the lead in the second and never trailed from there.
The Panthers won the second 12-5 and took a 15-10 lead into the break.
Blanco doubled up the Deer in the third, 12-6, for the 27-16 advantage. Comfort outscored the Panthers in the fourth quarter but only by three points, 12-9.
Katie Haffner paced the Deer with 16 points, Rachel Adams added 7 points, Tindall Ahrens dropped in 3 and Hannah Adams scored 2.
Ahrens had a team-high 8 rebounds, Jael Hernandez recorded 4 steals and 3 assists and Haffner came up with 3 assists.
Vs. Llano
The Comfort girls hosted Llano last Tuesday and came away with a 33-29 win in overtime.
Tuesday’s contest was tied at 25-25, and in the extra period, the Deer were able to double up the Lady Yellowjackets, 8-4, to record the 33-29 victory.
Last Tuesday’s game was back and forth until the extra period. Llano was up 8-5 after one period but Comfort won the second stanza, 7-5, and was trailing by a point at the break, 13-12.
The Yellowjackets took the third period, 9-7, and opened up a 22-19 lead as the game went to the fourth quarter but Comfort was able to catch them in the final period after outscoring them, 6-3, to knot it up at 25-25.
Once in OT, the Deer dropped in 8 and held Llano to 4 to get the win in the low-scoring game.
Rachel Adams led Comfort with 12 points and Jael Hernandez finished with 10, while Katie Haffner netted 8 as the trio combined for 30 of the team’s 33 points.
Danielle Ruelas tallied 2 and Hannah Adams hit a free throw as every point counted.
Haffner came up with 10 steals and 2 assists, while Tindall Ahrens recorded 7 rebounds and 6 steals.
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