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Luverne 49, Red Level 41

The Red Level Lady Tigers end the season as Luverne advances to play Goshen in the finals of the Class 2A, Area 2 playoffs on Saturday. Starla Jones recorded a double-double for Red Level with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Adrianna Bradley added 13 points.  Jalessa Franklin and Sherikia Brantley led the Tigers with 12 points each.

McKenzie 52, Red Level 48

Amber Rudolph led all scorers with 32 points for McKenzie.
Brianna Pate finished with 17 for Red Level (9-12). Erica Crawford added 12.

Goshen 56, Red Level 26

Shonketta Christian scored 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead Goshen (21-3, 7-0 Class 2A, Area 2).  Letara Thomas added 13 points and Zadous Pollard had 11 for the Eagles, who have already sealed the regular-season area title. Starla Jones scored six points to lead Red Level.

Luverne downs Lady Tigers
(correspondent to Program23)

The Lady Tigers took the lead early and lead by 7 points at the half, the girls came out flat in the 3rd and got down by as much as 20 points but rallied in the 4th with better defense and some good shooting.  The twenty point deficit was to much to overcome as the Red Level Lady Tigers lose an important 2A Area 3 battle to Luverne by a score of 58 - 47.

Red Level vs Highland Home

The Red Level girls upending Highland Home 52-44.  The Lady Tigers controlled the game from the opening tip, dominating Highland Home on the boards and in the scoring column for the first three quarters of the contest. However, a furious Lady Squadron rally in the final period, which included 12 fourth quarter points from Jessica Merriweather, forced Red Level to hold on to the ball and settle for wide open shots.

Though the Lady Tigers went on to dominate the first period, they missed their first six shots of the game before Starla Jones finally put the Tigers ahead 2-0 with her running jumper with 6:35 left in the opening frame. A bucket by Erica Crawford stretched the lead to 4-0, before Highland Home answered with a free throw from Merriweather. But the Red Level assault continued. Jones, Crawford, and Koneshia Calloway all added baskets in the quarter as the Lady Tigers took a 15-4 lead into the second quarter.

Highland Home managed to come alive in the next period, due to the post play of Merriweather. The Lady Squadron guards patiently dribbled around the top of the key, waiting for their star to get open. Merriweather managed to get a couple of baskets, but did most of her damage from the free throw line, where she hit on 9 of 10 of her attempts to keep her team hanging around, 18-29.  Red Level began to attack the lane after the break, stretching the lead to 32-20 with a layup by Crawford. Merriweather answered back for the Lady Squadron, but then Crawford went on a tear, scoring seven of the next eight points to put her Lady Tigers up 39-27 going into the fourth.
An opening quarter bucket by Adrianna Bradley increased the lead to 14, but Merriweather then took over the game, scoring a jumper with 4:05 left to cut the lead down to 41-31 and then exploding for 10 of the next 14 points to get her team within five, 41-46.

Jones drove the lane a minute later to get her team back on the board and Lania Paulk and Bradley ended the quarter with two straight jumpers to give Red Level their fourth area win of the season.  Crawford led Red Level with 15 points and Jones added 10. Merriweather had 30 for Highland Home in the loss.

Red Level splits at Georgiana

Red Level B-Team 58 - Georgiana 39
Lady Tigers 44 - Georgiana 37
Georgiana 75 - Red Level 63

Red Level falls to Luverne

All three Red Level teams dropped their games to the Luverne Tigers, including an overtime loss by the Lady Tigers and a 63-55 varsity defeat.  Fred Hawkins was dominate leading Luverne to 9-3 with their area win over the Red Level Tigers.  Clay Marshall poured in 18 points as the host Red Level Tigers couldn't turn things around for the second straight area loss. 

Luverne's Jaleesa Franklin hit a three pointer as the time expired in the first period to put the Tigers ahead 11-3 in the opening of area play for 2007.  Luverne was just in Red Level last week competing in the 9th Annual Classic, but lost the first two games (Andalusia / Brantley)  before defeating McKenzie.  The Red Level Lady Tigers started slow and couldn't find a rhythm in the first period and partially into the second until Starla Jones of RL hit an outside jump shot pushing the Lady Tigers closer.  Lania Paulk played well inside with several rebounds and blocked shots down low, but got into foul trouble early including a charging call on offense and had to sit for the final five minutes of period two.  Lindsay Jones took a pass from Starla Jones down low to pull with in four points with four minutes to play, but Luverne's Burnett countered pushing the lead back to six.  Red Level fought tough in the second half sending the game into overtime for the second time in consecutive games.  This time the Lady Tigers fell in the extended period.

Bracket

Red Level drops to Florala  - but
Lady Tigers win

Florala got things back on track after losing to 4A Andalusia on Tuesday evening.  The Wildcats travel to Georgiana for another 2A contest.  Florala defeated the Tigers - 72 - 58 .  Red Level falls to 5-4 and Florala improves to 4-5. 

Lady Tigers win thriller

After trailing by nine points in the closing minutes of the first half, the Red Level girlsı varsity basketball team pulled out a stunning 44-42 home-court victory against the visiting Florala Wildcats on Friday. 

The score was tied at 42 a piece with 26 seconds left on the game clock when Starla Jones went to the free throw line after taking a hard foul driving the lane. Jones calmly sank both attempts in what would provide the eventual margin of victory.  Though the Lady Tigers were forced to play catch up basketball for most of the night, sophomore guard BreAnna Pate scored the initial basket on the opening tip off, putting her team temporarily in front, 2-0.  But, Florala quickly answered when Reva Odom hit a 3-pointer from the right side of the key that barely moved the net. 

Then, freshman Lania Paulk gave the lead, 4-3, back to the Tigers with a
follow on basket coming off a low post. However, that would be the last time
Red Level would be the front runner until the waning seconds of the game. In
fact, the Lady Wildcats stretched the lead to eight points, 14-6, to close
out the opening period and still led at the half, 24-19, though the margin
had been cut to five.  Red Level (4-4 Overall, 1-0 District) struggled to stay in the game in the  first half primarily on its free-throw shooting ability. Erica Crawford went  three-for-three during that time, including a 3-point effort to move the Tigers a bit closer, 14-9, as the second period got underway. Paulk added two others as the team went 5-5 in the first 16 minutes of play.  Neither team shot the ball well from the floor, with one exception ­ Floralaıs Odom. Possessing a lightning-quick release, Odom practically owned the right side of the key, burning the cords for a trio of 3-pointers. Each seemed to come at just the right time to stem a Tiger rally or to lift her team out of a temporary shooting slump.

Red Level seemed to be a different team as the second half got underway, making up the 5-point, first half deficit and finally tying the game at 33 all on a Jones jumper from about eight feet. "I gave them a chewing out at halftime," Red Level Coach Delores Kelley said. "We were just too lazy on defense. We went from our 2-1-2 to the triangle, primarily to cover the [Florala] girls on the outside. We had to take away that outside shot." The changes seemed to work, with Floralaıs Odom being held to only a pair of free throws in the second half. She finished with 11 points to lead her teamıs losing effort, while Deandria Smith contributed eight in a supporting role.

Meanwhile, Red Level presented a balance scoring attack with three players hitting double figures. Tierra Brundidge, Andrianna Bradley and Jones all finished with ten points each. Brundidge is a senior while Bradley and Jones are each sophomores.

Red Level splits area match-ups

 The Red Level girls kept the crowd's intensity level up in another neck and neck hardwood showdown.  Opposite of the JV's final outcome this time it was the Red Level Lady Tigers scoring with 4 seconds remaining to give the girls the win by 2 points. This Lady Tigers are now 1-0 in 2A area 2.

Red Level sweeps McKenzie
(program23 - Red Level correspondent)

The Red Level girls got their winning ways back on track with a 41 to 30 win, Erica Crawford was the leading scorer with 15 points, Lania Paulk had 9 points and Starla Jones had 8 points.

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