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Clintwood tops Panthers for 1A West title
Twin Valley (39) Vs. Clintwood (60)
Mar 06, 2015
By LLOYD COMBS
for the Daily Telegraph
LEBANON, Va. — It started out innocently enough, but it got ugly fast for Twin Valley and it never really changed.
Clintwood scored 16 unanswered points early in the game and went on to claim the Region 1A West title with a convincing, 60-39 win over Twin Valley Friday night.
Both teams move on to the Group 1A state semifinals Monday at the VCU Siegel Center in Richmond. The Lady Panthers will take on the 1A East champ in a 3:30 p.m. start.
Twin Valley (21-8) scored the first four points of the game before Clintwood's Samantha Stanley hit the first of her six 3-pointers, the first of her six 3s in seven attempts after missing her first two tries.
It got the Greenwave senior to the 1,000-point mark for her career and it started a 16-0 run that not only gave Clintwood (24-2) the lead for good, it gave it a double-digit lead for good.
Stanley scored all of her team-high 18 points from behind the arc. All-state guard Kayla Mullins added 14 points and guard Ivvy Gulley played the best all-around floor game of the night with an offensive-defensive triple-double of 16 points, 10 assists and 10 steals
"We didn't move very well defensively," admitted Twin Valley coach Tommy Crigger. "Then when Stanley started hitting threes, then you're gonna gave to start going out on Mullins, then you've got Gulley to worry about. They've got three or four good scorers just like we usually do."
The biggest Lady Greenwave lead in the first half was 31-13 and the closest the Lady Panthers got in the second half was 13 points, at 35-22 after a three-point play by sophomore Lexy Vance early in the third period.
Vance finished with 18 points and hauled in 14 rebounds, but no one else tallied more than seven points for the Lady Panthers.
"Tonight their speed gave us problems," Crigger added. "We can't start our offense out near halfcourt, we have to get it down inside and once we did that we executed and got layups.
"But they played big and we played bad, but we played bad because they made us play bad."
Clintwood forced 22 Twin Valley turnovers and made it difficult to find open shots on the perimeter.
"They were gonna make sure our guards weren't going to get a good shot off at the three-point line," Crigger said. "We turned the ball over four or five times in a row and you're not going to win ballgames doing that."
Freshman Kim Lester scored seven points for the Lady Panthers. Katelyn Jackson had six assists and Kara Goodman had five.
It was Clintwood's third win over Twin Valley in three tries this season. The last two meetings have not been close, but the first one was a 5-point game.
The two southwest Virginia clubs are in opposite brackets in Richmond and could meet again in Wednesday's state finals.
This is the farewell season for Clintwood, which will consolidate with Haysi this fall.

TWIN VALLEY (39)
Lester 3 1-2 7, Vance 7 3-9 18, Keene 2 0-2 5, Jackson 0 0-0 0, Goodman 1 0-0 3, O’Quinn 1 0-0 2, Stanford 0 0-0 0, Cantrell 0 0-0 0,
Meadows 2 0-0 4. Totals 16 4-13 39.
CLINTWOOD (60)
I. Gulley 7 1-4 16, Fletcher 3 2-4 8, Sab. Stanley 0 0-0 0, Mullins 5 3-4 14, N. Gulley 1 0-1 2, Sam. Stanley 6 0-1 18, Counts 0 0-0 0,
Phillips 0 1-2 1, Stevens 0 1-3 1. Totals 22 8-19 60.
Twin Valley.......................4 15 8 12 — 39
Clintwood.......................14 19 11 16 — 60
3-point goals – TV 3 (Vance, Keene, Goodman), Clintwood 8 (Sam. Stanley 6, I. Gulley, Mullins). Total fouls – TV 15, Clintwood 11. Fouled out – Keene. Technicals – none.


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Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT SCORE
Twin Valley 4 15 8 12 0 39
Clintwood 14 19 11 16 0 60
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