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WPIAL Girls Varsity Basketball Game

“The TRIB Live highschool sports network is proud to present from Carlynton high school tonight, girls basketball, East Allegheny against Carlynton!” The commentator announced our game as we all watched our Lady Cougars take down East A with a score of 40-38. Starters Jada Lee (#11), Jelly Diallo (#10), Haley Williams (#5), Kendall Kline (#14), and Naima Turner (#13) made the victory clear when they splashed a three in the first 20 seconds of the game. Though this moment brought hope, the lead wasn’t evident in the halftime score. With the game at 24-24 Coach Dorrien “Ace” Robbins encouraged players to get it together and take a win for sectionals against a team they hardly ever won to. His encouragement worked; before the end of the third quarter our Lady’s had a lead! 

Soon after, though, things got bad, as star player Jada Lee was injured and taken out of the game after an aggressive foul from #23 on the opposing team. Her teammate Kendall Kline took two foul shots in place of Jada and made each one.
On our Lady Cougar team some of the highest scorers were Jada Lee, Naima Turner, and Haley Williams. Those players are the same reason this game was filmed. Jada Lee just recently scored 1,000 points in her highschool career. That big accomplishment, along with others, gave Carlynton the skill to participate in WPIAL sectionals. 

This game, broadcasted live as TRIB’s Game of the Week on December 16th, was chosen because West Allegheny and Carlynton are two rival basketball teams. Every year one of the teams comes out victorious in a tense match up. Fouls and turnovers happen often during their games, which makes watching very enjoyable but filming very hard. Thankfully our Lady Cougar’s managers, Joann Hussain and Maddie Main, were just the right people for this task. They took awesome footage that you can watch  now on TRIB’s website. Click the link below and watch our Lady Cougars take down the Wildcats in a very well played game.



Written by Uzochi Orji, 7th grade 

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