Baisden sets state tournament
record for most 3-point goals
in a single game with nine
Tug Valley’s return to the West Virginia girls’ state basketball tournament saw a record-setting performance from junior guard Kaylea Baisden.
Baisden set a new single-game state tournament mark for all classifications with nine three-pointers — and she did it in three quarters, finishing with 33 points, as the Lady Panthers crushed Pendleton County, 67-24, at the Charleston Civic Center Coliseum on Tuesday afternoon.
Audrey Evans added 15 points and Alyssa Newsome tossed in eight.
The Lady Panthers hit 21 field goals, including 14 from three-point range.
Top-ranked Tug Valley, now 13-2, moves onto the semifinals against Tucker County (17-4) at 9 p.m. Thursday night.
At Charleston
(Class A state tournament)
SCORE BY QUARTERS:
PD (6-5).……4 5 9 6 –24
TV (13-2)…24 14 22 7 – 67
Scoring:
Pendleton County (24) – Arianna Young 2(1) 2-2 9; Brooke Walls 2 0-0 4; Mariah Huffman 1 0-0 2; Brandy Bowers 4 0-0 8; and Kinzley Hartman 0 1-2 1. Totals: 9(1) 3-4 24.
Tug Valley (67) – Kaylea Baisden 1(9) 4-4 33; Autumn Hall 0 1-4 1; Alyssa Newsome 3 2-3 8; Audrey Evans 1(4) 1-2 15; Makayla May 1 3-4 5; Kaydence Gilman 0(1) 0-0 3; and Kristin Fields 1 0-0 2. Totals: 7(14) 11-17 67.
Next up: Tug Valley (13-2) vs. Tucker County (17-4), state semifinals, 9 p.m., April 29.
Photo courtesy of Ray Justice Photography
