Adena falls to talented Oak Hill team in district final

Tall, long, athletic, and loaded with basketball skill…these are just a few ways to describe Adena’s opponent in Saturday’s D-III district championship at the Convo in Athens. Oak Hill (23-0), who has had only two teams even stay within single digits of them all year, had things rolling both defensively and offensively from the word go as the Lady Oaks scored 26 points in both the first and second quarters to take a 52-17 lead at the half. The second half started with more of the same before both teams went deep into their benches to give all players the Convo experience. All totaled, Oak Hill advanced with an 82-33 win. In the first quarter, Adena struggled with Oak Hill’s pressure. Despite several Adena miscues, the Lady Warriors did some nice things in terms of getting the ball where they wanted it, but Oak Hill’s size made it tough to finish around the basket. On the other end, Oak Hill’s Rebecca Puckett scored 18 of her game-high 28 points in the first stanza. Even after the tough first period, Adena looked as if it would hang around as Brytan Givens scored four early points to cut Oak Hill’s lead to 29-13, but Taylor Hale became the third different Oak Hill role player to hit a triple in as many possessions to stretch the lead back to 32-13. The hot perimeter shooting along with Oak Hill’s 1,000 point duo – Puckett and Karissa Adkins, who ended with 17 points – was too much for Adena to overcome. For Adena (15-8) Givens led the way with 12 points. Hannah Halcomb scored nine points and Jenny Grigsby scored seven points. Senior Kirsti Yates left the game in the first quarter after taking a shot to the head. Yates was later taken to the hospital with reports coming back later in the day that she had suffered a mild concussion.

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