Top seeds advance in 281 tourney

Wessington Springs’ Cassidy Musick puts up a shot against Hitchcock-Tulare’s Heather Barrie during their game in the opening round of the 281 Conference Girls’ Basketball Tournament on Friday at the Wolsey-Wessington gym. In the next photo, Highmore-Harrold’s Courtney Keller dribbles around Wolsey-Wessington’s Megan Robinson during their game in the opening round of the 281 Conference Girls’ Basketball Tournament on Friday at the Wolsey-Wessington gym. PHOTOS BY MIKE CARROLL/PLAINSMAN

WOLSEY— The 281 Conference tournament tipped off Friday with the quarterfinals or opening round of the girls’ bracket.

Wessington Springs Lady Spartans, the No. 3 seed, defeated No. 6 Hitchcock-Tulare Lady Patriots 66-56 to advance to Monday’s championship semifinals at Huron Arena.

In the second game of the day Highmore-Harrold Pirates defeated Wolsey-Wessington Lady Warbirds 50-7.

The Pirates will square off Monday at 6:30 p.m. against the Lady Spartans while the Lady Patriots will play the Lady Warbirds in the consolation semifinals at 3:30 p.m.

In the other quarterfinal games the Sanborn Central-Woonsocket Blackhawks defeated Iroquois Lady Chiefs 64-23 while the James Valley Christian Lady Vikings defeated the Sunshine Bible Academy Lady Crusaders 48-24.

The Blackhawks will play the Lady Vikings on Monday at 8 p.m. in the championship semifinals.

The other consolation semifinal game will pit the Lady Chiefs against the Lady Crusaders at 5 p.m. Monday.

Complete stats from Friday’s games will run in Sunday’s paper.



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