BASKETBALL: Lady Panthers 2-2 at Ham. Co. tournament
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Pinckneyville's girls wrapped up the Hamilton County Tournament with a 2-2 record, falling to 4-0 Hamilton County 55-49 on Saturday night.
"I thought our effort was pretty good, but our execution was lacking," said Lady Panthers' head coach Alan Engelhardt.
"Once again, we were hurt by the dribble drive. When we get beat off the drive, the rest of our defense has to help and that leaves too many people open for easy baskets."
The Lady Panthers and Lady Foxes went into the half knotted at 29-29 and Hamilton County led by a single point after the third, but the tournament host was able to get it done with a 16-11 fourth quarter.
"Offensively, we had much better shot selection than in our first three games, but we missed 19 shots in the lane," Engelhardt added. "If we are able to convert some of the easy baskets that we worked for, we win the game."
"Obviously, going 2-2 in the tournament is not how we wanted to start the year, but we don't have time to hang our heads as we start our conference slate at Anna-Jonesboro on Tuesday."
Maddy Keith and Taylor Cicardi each finished with 12 points to lead PCHS, Katrina Henson added 9, Taylor Kuhnert and Hayley Simpson 4, Lindsey Winter and Mo Ramsey 3 and Heather McDaniel 2.
On Friday night, Pinckneyville cruised past Gallatin County 62-35 behind a team-high 19 points from Cicardi, who was named to the Ham-Co All-Tournament team for PCHS along with Keith and Ramsey.
Ramsey had 10 points against Gallatin County, Henson 9, Keith 7, Simpson 5, McDaniel 4, Kortney Crawford 4, Tyler Flowers and Britney Thomas 2.
The Lady Panthers are at Anna-Jonesboro on Tuesday (7:45 p.m.) and at Benton on Thursday (7:45 p.m.).