For the second straight year the Lady Bombers are coming home with some hardware from the Billy Ply Classic in Flippin. Mountain Home and Bergman faced off in a tussle of two teams who have state title hopes in their respective classifications. Bergman came out firing in the first quarter taking a 14-8 lead on the back of Brinley Collins who had 7 of her 16 points in the first quarter. The 2nd quarter saw Mountain Home lock in defensively as they outscored the Panthers 11-6 in the quarter, but would still trail 20-19 going into the halftime break. Mountain Home’s highest scoring quarter would come in the third as they would score 16 points to Bergman’s 12. Brooklynn Mitchell scored 8 of her 18 points on the night in the third quarter to help propel Mountain Home into the lead in the final quarter 35-32. The fourth quarter would see Bergman rally back and even take a late lead. Mountain Home would tie the game on a Jayla Yonkers layup with under 30 seconds to go. Livi Fosness had a shot at the buzzer that hit the heel of the iron and rolled out and led to Mountain Home and Bergman playing free basketball. In the overtime period Laken Anderson would hit two tough shots and score 4 of her 7 points in overtime to help propel Mountain Home to the 55-50 overtime victory to secure the Billy Ply Classic crown.
Dell Leonard spoke with KTLO after the game and said his team saw really good competition and loved how his team had to fight to win a game.
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Leonard said that playing 3 days in a row, a feat they will do two more times this calendar year, is a good test for the grind of a conference season and state tournament.
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Mountain Home was led in scoring by Livi Fosness with 20 points, Brooklynn Mitchell added 18 points.
Mountain Home improves to 5-2 on the season, they will begin play in the Springdale Classic next week.
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