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2B WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Saturday, November 24, 2012AND SHE SHOOTS — Alvord’s Ariel Rogers lines up a two-point shot with two Muenster players moving up close to block.Hornets sting ...ontinued from page 1B1-48 victory.Alvord went into the final quarerdown 11 points and made areat rally to climb back into theame. Muenster missed two freehrows with seven seconds lefthat would have sealed the deal,ut King was unable to get theesperation shot to go.“They [Muenster] stepped upand made some good shots,” Alvordcoach Rob Schmucker said.“The second-chance points killedus, and we weren’t making verysmart choices on our shot selection.“We were down by 11 and cameback and made it a game, so Iwas proud of that. We just haveto get better offensively and defensively,and we will.”It was a good start for the LadyBulldogs (6-2) handling the hostileenvironment and jumpingout to a 17-11 lead at the end ofthe first quarter.Muenster began to chip awayin the second period. After KatieClaborn put the Lady Bulldogsup 22-14, Muenster respondedwith a 9-1 run to tie the game atMessenger photo by Clay Corbett • Buy reprints at wcmessenger.com/reprints23-23. King hit a big 3-pointer toput Alvord back up by three, butthe Lady Hornets hit a bucket atthe buzzer to close the gap to 26-25 at halftime.Muenster came out and dominatedthe third quarter. Withtheir effective press and secondchancepoints, the Lady Hornetsoutscored Alvord 20-6 in the periodto take a 45-34 lead to thefinal period.“The turnovers that we weremaking, they were causing,”Schmucker said. “We just needto be more patient with the balland make a little bit better decisions.”Alvord was led by King with 16and Ariel Rogers with 11. LaurenHart added seven, and MarissaSchedcik finished with six.BASKETBALLLady Eaglescapture three winsBASKETBALLAfter losing their firstgame at the Lake CountryChristian TournamentMonday, the Decatur LadyEagles rebounded to winthree straight.Decatur (5-2) fell to THE-SA 59-33 in the openinggame of the round robin format.Murphy Graham ledthe way with 14, and KatieIsham had six. Traci Halefinished with five.The Lady Eagles won theirsecond game over Birdville,54-26. Shelby Drews had13, and Graham added 11.Isham tossed in 10.Decatur dominated theirthird game with 61-17 winover the Burton Academy.Graham led the way with17, and Traci Hale had nine.Haley Dennard finishedwith seven, and Isham hadsix.The Lady Eagles closedout the tournament witha 44-33 win over Rosehill.Isham put up 16, and Grahamadded eight. Dennardfinished with six. ShelbyDrews, Jasmyne Tate andCarlee Stapp each had four.Isham was named to theall-tournament team.Messenger photos by Joe Duty • Buy reprints at wcmessenger.com/reprintsBRIDGEPORT VICTORY — (Left) Derrick Stanford and (right) Stephen Howdeshell alongwith the rest of the Bulls went up against Fort Worth Castleberry for a 58-47 win Tuesday.Swimmers cut ...Continued from page 1B100 I.M. 10th 1:3410 and under maleJoseph Elliot200 Free 1st 2:46100 Free 2nd 1:1550 Free 3rd 33.8850 Back 3rd 41.02100 Back 4th 1:33100 Breast 7th 1:50Zach Levesque50 Free 6th 37.15200 Free 6th 3:1950 Back 7th 46.64100 Free 9th 1:2950 Fly 9th 54.59100 I.M. 9th 1:4711-12 femaleLizey Rowden200 Free 3rd 2:2650 Free 5th 30.46100 Free 7th 1:0850 Back 8th 37.6350 Breast 13th 42.8450 Fly 14th 38.97100 I.M. 15th 1:22Reilly Ruggiero200 Free 10th 2:4750 Back 15th 39.6011-12 maleTrey Berry200 Free 7th 2:4550 Fly 11th 40.47100 Free 12th 1:1550 Free 14th 33.5050 Breast 14th 45.18Open femaleKatey Rowden100 Free 8th 56.6750 Free 9th 25.84THIS JUSTIN PHOTO BY JOE DUTYCOLLEGE SIGNINGS — Northwest High School held a signing ceremony for two volleyball athletes Nov. 15. BrookeBerryhill signed with Tulsa University, and Kaylin Goss signed with the University of Texas at Tyler.Call940-627-5987to get yourmessagedelivered!WWW.WCMESSENGER.COMNEWS@WCMESSENGER.COMADS@WCMESSENGER.COM