Jim Walker
jim.walker@irontontribune.com

SOUTH POINT — The starting time didn’t seem to matter to the South Point Lady Pointers.
Playing in a post-lunch assembly game, the Lady Pointers beat the Rock Hill Redwomen 57-35 in an Ohio Valley Conference game on Thursday.
Emilee Whitt scored 14 points and Brooklyn Badgett scored 11 to lead South Point (13-8, 9-5).
Anna Darby scored 10 points for Rock Hill (7-15, 3-11).
South Point went up 6-3 after the first quarter as Whitt scored four points.
Whitt got the hot hand in the second quarter as she scored 10 points including a pair of 3-pointers as the lead grew to 26-10 at the half. Leah Lawson and Badgett added four points each.
Badgett hit a 3-pointer and scored five points while Lawson and Elisha Spencer had four each in the third quarter and it was 47-26. Darby and Maddy Scott got six points each and Jill Hairston hit a 3-pointer for Rock Hill.
Emilee Carey got all five of her points in the fourth quarter for South Point. Rileigh Morris had four and Gracie Stevens hit a trifecta for Rock Hill.
Rock Hill    3    7    16    9    =    35
South Point    6    20    21    10    =    57
ROCK HILL (7-15, 3-11): Lucy Simpson 0 0 2-4 2, Anna Darby 3 0 4-4 10, Sam Stamper 0 0 0-2 0, Maddy Scott 1 0 1-2 3, Autumn Porter 1 0 0-0 2, Rileigh Morris 2 0 0-1 4, Jill Hairston 1 1 0-0 5, Gracie Stevens 0 1 0-0 3, Makayla Scott 3 0 0-2 6. Totals: 11 2 7-15 35. Fouls: 11. Fouled out: None.
SOUTH POINT (13-8, 9-5): Emilee Whitt 4 2 0-0 14, Maddy Khounlavong 0 0 1-2 1, Kate Mundy 1 0 0-0 2, Brooklyn Badgett 4 1 0-0 11, Leah Lawson 4 0 0-0 8, Emilee Carey 1 1 0-0 5, Madison Kearns 1 0 4-8 6, Elisha Spencer 3 0 0-2 6, Ashley Perkey 2 0 0-0 4, Abbey Hannah 0 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 6 5-14 57. Fouls: 14. Fouled out: None.