Lady Jackets fall to strong teams

Markyla Durden tries to get the ball to Anna Grace Alligood

Bree Coney (front), Anna Grace Alligood and Marlee Burch trap an opponent

Brylee Wyatt

Jeff Davis High’s girls fell to a couple of strong teams Friday and Saturday of last week as they lost 64-34 to Fitzgerald Friday in Fitzgerald and battled to the end Saturday in Hazlehurst before succumbing 52-38 to Thomasville.
Fitzgerald doubled the Lady Jackets’ offensive output in each of the first two quarters Friday night as the Lady Hurricanes took a 32-16 lead into the dressing room at intermission.
The hostesses continued to pull away in the second half to take the 64-34 win.
Brylee Wyatt hit 5 3-point shots and led the Lady Jacket scoring with 17 points. Bree Coney also scored in double digits with 13 points. Marlee Burch and Zijanna Mincey added 2 each.
Kiardi McDuffie topped Fitzgerald with 12 points.
Saturday night n Hazlehurst, Thomasville built a 35-18 halftime lead but, in the 2nd half, the Lady Jackets began to chip away at the Lady Bulldogs’ lead and cut Thomasville’s lead down to as little as 7 points before the visitors began to pull away at the end.
Wyatt and Coney led the 2nd half surge and Anna Grace Alligood scored all 8 of her points in the 2nd half.
Coney finished with 17, including a pair of 3-pointers, Wyatt had 11, hitting 3 shots from beyond the arc. But only three Lady Jackets scored in the game.
Harmony Bryant topped Thomasville’s scoring with 20 and Jayla Brooks chipped in 12.
Score by quarters:
JDHS 8 8 9 9 -34
FHS 16 16 17 15 -64

THS 16 19 6 11 -52
JDHS 7 11 13 7 -38