Myers reaches 1,000 in final home game
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KHS SENIOR Abbie Myers shoots a short jumper during the first half of Kingfisher’s district championship game against Cushing. She scored 12 in the Lady Jackets’ victory. [Photo by Russell Stitt/www.stitt.smugmug.com]
In the last game she’ll ever play in her home gym, Abbie Myers made her final bucket a big one.
It didn’t win a game for Kingfisher as the Lady Jackets cruised to a 54-19 victory against Cushing in a Class 4A district championship game on Saturday.
That was good for sixthranked Kingfisher’s 15th straight win as the Lady Jackets improved to 22-3 and stayed in the winner’s bracket entering this week’s regional.
Myers needed 11 points entering the night to surpass 1,000 for her career.
She scored on Kingfisher’s first possession and had 8 points at halftime as the Lady Jackets were comfortably on top 32-8.
She got to points 998 and 999 on a layup with 6:30 to go in the third quarter.
Then, with 5:23 to go in the third, Myers got her milestone bucket.
It happened the same way her first one did on the night.
The Lady Tigers were in a zone defense and Myers was initially set up on the perimeter.
The ball made its way opposite of her to Reese Roof on the other side.
Myers snuck to the back side of the zone, got low screens from Ela Hartman and Taitym Walker, caught a lob pass from Roof and laid it off the glass.
It was the latest in a long line of recent accomplishments for Myers.
She also recently surpassed 500 rebounds, was voted basketball homecoming queen and committed to play at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
Before then, however, she’s trying to get the Lady Jackets back to state for the second straight year and for the third time in her career.
She finished the game with 12 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists before joining fellow senior Roof on the bench about midway through the third quarter for the rest of the night.
Roof led all scorers with 16 points, which included going 4 of 8 from 3-point range.
She also had 3 assists and 3 steals.
Mattie Slezickey knocked down 8 points and had 5 steals as KHS forced 29 Cushing turnovers.
Hartman added 6 points, 5 assists and 4 steals.
Kingfisher made nine 3-pointers as a team.
Callie Blair joined Hartman in making two of them for her 6 points.
KHS played Cleveland at 6 p.m. Tuesday (after press time) in the regional semifinal in Cushing.
Cleveland beat Bristow 42-30 in its district championship.
A win Tuesday puts the Lady Jackets into Saturday night’s regional final at Cushing. A loss knocks them into the consolation bracket and would see them play at 1 p.m. Friday.