BAY MINETTE, Ala. — The Baldwin County High School Lady Tigers closed out their season in dramatic fashion against the Lady Trojans of Daphne with a 63-61 victory in overtime.

The opening of the game was a little confusing for everyone with a glitch in Baldwin County High School’s scoreboard, so the school and officials decided to keep score on a white erase board and the officials kept their own clock.

The first quarter ended with Daphne ahead 8-7 with Amber Yelding and Sierra Patterson both leading Daphne with four points each. Trailing 9-7 early in the second quarter BCHS came alive with a 12-2 run led by CoCo Knight with six points to give the Tigers the 19-11 lead. Baldwin County kept the lead until 4:50 in the fourth quarter when Yelding hit a three-point jump shot to tie the game at 47. With the score in favor of the Tigers late in the game 55-53, Yelding was fouled and hit both of her free throws to tie the game at 55 and sent the game into overtime. The Lady Trojans jumped out early in the overtime period with a two point basket by Kristen Henton but the celebration would be short lived when Latreka Jenkins scored two points of her own to tie the score at 57. Patterson answered back for the Trojans but the combination of Jenkins and Knight hit six for six from the free throw line to give the Tigers the 63-59 lead with 23 seconds left on the clock. Cherilyn Ramsey scored a two point lay-up with 10 seconds left to bring the game to the final 63-61.

Coco Knight led the Lady Tigers with 26 points while teammate LaTreka Jenkins aided with 22 points. Yelding led the game for the Daphne Trojans with 31 points while Amanda Patton had 14 points.

The Lady Tigers will host the Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 6A Area 4 tournament Thursday and Saturday. Thursday's match up will see Williamson against McGill-Toolen at 6 p.m. and BCHS will face Satsuma at 7:30.

Daphne will host the Area 3 tournament on the same nights with Robertsdale facing Fairhope at 6 and Daphne against Foley at 7:30.

Boys

Daphne 60,

BCHS 50

BAY MINETTE — The Daphne Trojans took the roar out of Baldwin County High School's Senior Night Friday night with a 60-50 victory.

Baldwin County was leading the entire first quarter but a two point basket by Preston Solomon tied the game at 18 with 5:31 left in the first quarter. The Tigers pulled away to a four-point lead until Solomon tied it once again with 2:29 left in the first half but a two point basket by the Tigers' Jermane Jackson with 34 seconds left in the half gave BCHS a two point lead at 26-24. Taylor Culliver was fouled shortly afterwards and hit both free throw shots to give Baldwin County the 28-24 lead going into halftime.

Daphne came out strong in the third quarter with a 8-0 run led by a three point jump shot by Vance Jenkins and closed out by another three pointer by Joe Menefee to take the 32-28 go ahead. Daphne never relinquished the lead the entire second half as they took the 60-50 victory.

Solomon had the game high 22 points for the Daphne Trojans and teammate Menefee added 12 points. Culliver led Baldwin County with 12 points of his own while teammates Mario Butler and Larry Rogers both had ten. Xavier Dortch ended the game with nine of his own.

Daphne will host the Area 3 tournament Friday night with Robertsdale meeting Fairhope at 6 p.m. and Daphne will face Foley at seven. The winners of both games will face each other Monday night at 7:30. The Tigers will travel to McGill-Toolen Friday night for their Area 4 tournament where they will face Williamson at 6 p.m.