Jim Walker
jim.walker@irontontribune.com

SOUTH POINT — The South Point Lady Pointers needed some offensive pointers, so Emilee Whitt gave them some.
About 25 to be exact.
Whitt filled the nets with 25 points as she hit five 3-point goals to lead the Lady Pointers to a 72-51 Ohio Valley Conference win over the Portsmouth Lady Trojans last Thursday.
“Whitt really shot the ball well but we shot the ball well as a team. We had seven players score and three in double figures,” said Lady Pointers’ coach Dave Adams.
Leah Lawson and Ashley Perkey scored 14 points each as the Lady Pointers ran their record to 2-1 and 1-1 in the OVC.
Madison Kearns and Lawson also hit 3-pointers.
Jasmine Eley scored 18 points including a pair of 3-pointers to lead Portsmouth (0-4, 0-3) while Sharia Kearns added 11 points.
White scored 12 points including two trifectas in the first quarter as South Point raced to a 27-12 lead. Elisha Spencer scored all nine of her points in the quarter for the Lady Pointers.
Whitt hit two more 3-pointers and score 10 points while Perkey had nine points and South Point opened up a 50-25 halftime cushion.
Eley had seven points in the second quarter.
Lawson hit a 3-pointer and got six points as South Point led 61-37. Eley hit a pair of 3-pointers in the quarter.
Kylisha Kearns, Sharia Kearns and Layla Legg had four points each in the fourth quarter as Portsmouth outscored the Lady Pointers 14-11. Perkey scored five points for South Point.
South Point hosted Gallipolis on Thursday and will entertain Wheelersburg on Saturday.
Portsmouth    12    13    12    14    =    51
South Point    27    23    11    11    =    72
PORTSMOUTH (0-4, 0-3): Jasmine Eley 5 2 2-3 18, Kylisha Kearns 3 0 0-2 6, Destiny McKenzie 1 0 0-0 2, Sharia Kearns 5 0 1-2 11, Shai Howard 0 1 0-0 3, Autumn Wriht 0 0 0-0 0, Jaiden Rickett 3 0 1-2 7, Layla Legg 2 0 0-0 4. Totals: 19 8 4-9 51. Fouls: 11. Fouled out: None.
SOUTH POINT (2-1, 1-1): Emilee Whitt 5 5 0-1 25, Sydney Markel 0 0 0-0 0, Sarah Roach 0 0 0-0 0, Maddy Khounlavong 1 0 0-0 2, Leah Lawson 5 1 1-2 14, Elisha Spencer 3 0 3-4 9, Diamond Crawley 1 0 1-1 3, Madison Kearns 1 1 0-1 5, Kara Taylor 0 0 0-0 0, Ashley Perkey 5 0 4-5 14. Totals: 21 7 9-14 72. Fouls: 14. Fouled out: None.