GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Cougars' season ends with loss to AG

By News-Argus Staff
Published in Sports on February 15, 2017 9:59 AM

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LaTina Bullock glanced the scoreboard.

The deficit kept growing.

And growing.

And growing.

Midway through the third period, she turned around and said to her lone substitute on the bench, 'y'all have completely stopped playing. You're not doing anything you did in the first half, boxing out, playing defense. I don't understand.'

Or stopping Kimani Williams.

The Ayden-Grifton hybrid guard, silenced by a diamond-and-one defense in the opening half, erupted for 13 second-half points and led the Chargers past Goldsboro, 51-40, in quarterfinal-round play of the Eastern Carolina 2-A Conference tournament Tuesday evening.

"The diamond-and-one we were playing on her was working," Bullock said. "When we came back out (from halftime), it's like they forgot what we did in the first half and we lost the intensity that we started the game with.

"We stopped playing."

Williams tallied nine third-quarter points and snared seven rebounds during a back-breaking 18-0 run that lasted nearly eight minutes.

Goldsboro stopped the drought on Tziah Kelly's basket off Destiny Lucas' assist with 9.8 seconds left in the period.

The fourth-seeded Cougars (7-12) answered with a 10-0 run in the final quarter, but could get no closer.