Girls basketball: Weber survives late Roy surges and cold shooting to win 28-24
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- Roy High’s Tailor Butterfield, left, and Weber’s Sarah Hall, right, battle for a rebound during a high school girls basketball game at Weber High School on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022.
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- Roy High’s Iva Hunt, bottom, and Weber’s Sarah Hall, top, scramble for a loose ball during a high school girls basketball game at Weber High School on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022.
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- Weber High’s Katelynn Butler passes the ball during a high school girls basketball game against Roy at Weber High School on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022.
PLEASANT VIEW — Weber High’s girls basketball team held Roy off the scoreboard for the first 6 minutes and 11 seconds of their game Tuesday night, extending its third-quarter lead from 19-17 to 26-17 in the process.
On a night where neither team could buy a basket, the nine-point lead with 109 seconds left was enough. Barely.
The Warriors held off the Royals’ late surge for a 28-24 win a week after losing to Westlake by 34 points in the season opener.
After Masie Scholer rebounded Jerzee Hart’s missed 3-pointer with 7.6 seconds left, Weber’s Katelynn Butler stole Scholer’s pass, dribbled the length of the court and got fouled with 0.4 seconds left.
Butler made two free throws to seal the deal, which appeared to have been sealed minutes earlier but wasn’t. Weber (1-1) coach Clay Jackson said the Warriors may well have lost this type of game — watching a late lead evaporate — last year.
“Last year we had some games like that where we’d let the lead slip away and not always hold on to it. Tonight, it was, we know we can finish this and we can do this together. It wasn’t one person doing it, all five,” Jackson said.
The third and fourth quarters transpired in the same fashion: Weber would take a big lead and keep Roy off the scoreboard for long periods of time, then Roy (0-2) would score with a late flurry to make things interesting.
It took Weber 6 minutes and 16 seconds of game time to extend its 11-9 halftime lead to 19-9 in the third quarter before Roy scored all eight of its third-quarter points in the next 1:32 to close the third-quarter score to 19-17.
Sienna Bodily made a putback, Bria Belnap drained a 3-pointer and Lylian Rosenberg converted an and-one for the Royals in that span.
The fourth quarter was a similar story for both teams until back-to-back fastbreak baskets by Butler and Sarah Hall put the Warriors ahead 26-17 with 2:30 left in the game.
Belnap’s third 3-pointer of the game — she finished with nine points — cut the lead to 26-20 with 1:49 left and Masie Scholer’s free throw with 58.3 seconds left made it 26-21.
Weber turned it over at the other end, then a corner 3 by Jerzee Hart cut the deficit to 26-24, and the Warriors turned it over again in the backcourt with 21.4 seconds left.
It set up another Hart 3-pointer on the right side, which missed. Weber’s Abby Sayer, who led the Warriors with nine points, went for the ball near the opposite sideline, then got taken out by Belnap and the ball fell to Scholer.
Scholer tried to pass inside, but Butler stole the ball and took off down the court for the win. Butler made both free throws and finished with five points.
On a night where field-goal shooting was as cold as the air outside the gym, the Warriors shot 8 of 10 at the foul line and Roy shot 4 of 9.
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