High School Sports

For the girls the playoffs have started not so much with a bang as with a whimper.  

The seventh seeded Lady Hornets played host to Beekman Charter, a district foe that Rayville vanquished  easily in two district games and seeded 26. You would not have known it by the play in the first quarter.  The girls came out tight and suffered through the worst first quarter of the year with eight only points.

Despite a horrendous pre-district schedule, the Rayville Lady Hornets (10-9) captured a few prize pelts for their belts in wins over Wossman, Carroll, Neville and a split with the 5A powerhouse Ouachita. 

It served them well, for they have breezed through six district games by an average difference of 33 points a game.  And this is without two stalwart starters Shamari Franklin and Emonni Baker who were injured in the win over Ouachita on Dec. 23. So far they have not returned.

Two more games, two more wins.  

Mangham 102-48. Delhi Charter 89-53.

For the second consecutive seasons, the Hornets played havoc in district winning on the average by about 40 points a game.  Mangham played tough in the first quarter trailing by only one 20-19 on the strength of Harrison’s three threes (he had five in the game) only to be down 48-30 at the half.