BREMEN – It was the last time Emme Willoughby stepped foot on the Cold Springs floor as a Lady Eagle, and she made the most of it, dropping in 25 in an 87-42 drumming of the Altamont Lady Knights and assuring her team a spot in the Northwest Regional at Wallace State Community College that tips off Thursday.
Willoughby scored the first of her 25 with an easy basket mere seconds into the game to give the Lady Eagles a quick lead. Altamont responded with a bucket and the score went back and forth for the first half of the quarter. With less than four minutes left in the first, Elizabeth Hill drilled a three to put the Lady Eagles up 11-8, and they did not relinquish the lead again. Willoughby closed the quarter with six straight, only interrupted by a three from Lauren Perry. At the end of one, the Lady Eagles led 17-13.
In the second, Aubry Negron got Cold Springs on the board first to extend the lead to six. Neely Ellison followed with two of her own as the Lady Eagles started to pull away. Six different Lady Eagles scored in the quarter, pushing the lead into the teens to take a 41-28 lead to the half.
The second half was a mirror of the first with Cold Springs playing an oppressive defense and hitting their open shots. With no hot clock in post-season play, the Lady Eagles flirted with 100 for the second straight game and defeated the Lady Knights by 45.
Willoughby led all scorers with 25. Hill followed with 19. Camryn Crider was also in double digits with 10. Prisca McAnnally added eight, Ellison seven, Negron six, Zoe Strawbridge six, Sadie Terry four and Kinley Campbell two.
Cold Springs will play Red Bay Thursday at 6 p.m. at Wallace State.
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