Junior Female Flyers win Wellston Invitational

Published 3:44 am Tuesday, February 23, 2010

WELLSTON — It was the exclamation point to a good season.

The St. Joseph Junior Female Flyers capped off a 12-1 basketball season by winning the Wellston Invitational Saturday.

The Female Flyers beat Portsmouth Notre Dame 19-15 in the semifinal game and then downed host Wellston 29-22 in the championship.

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Hannah Miller scored 10 points whle Amber Neal and Molly Miller added 6 points each and Sidney Payne 5 in the title game.

Neal scord 6 points in the semifinal win with Hannah and Molly Miller getting 4 each.

Neal was voted the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

Wellston Invitational

Semifinal Game

St. Joseph 4 2 9 4 = 19

Notre Dame 2 3 4 6 = 15

ST. JOSEPH: Amber Neal 6, Sidney Payne 3, Hannah Miller 4, Molly Miller 4, Haley Bartrum 2, Austin Roach 0, Nicole Dickess 0. Totals: 8 1 0-1 19. Fouls: 5. Fouled out: None.

PORTSMOUTH NOTRE DAME: K. Stephenson 4, A. Webb 3, D. Pierron 6, E. Born 2. Totals: 6 0 3-7 15. Fouls: 8. Fouled out: None.

Championship Game

St. Joseph 12 7 2 8 = 29

Wellston 8 7 5 2 = 22

ST. JOSEPH: Austin Roach 2, Amber Neal 6, Sidney Payne 5, Hannah Miller 10, Molly Miller 6, Haley Bartrum 0, Nicole Dickess 0, Katie Roach 0. Total: 8 1 10-18 29. Fouls: 5. Fouled out: None.

WELLSTON: Tiffany King2, Karissa Darnell 8, Amber Gilliland 4, Chelsea McManaway 8. Totals: 7 2 2-2 22. Fouls: 19. Fouled out: None.