The Hopkinsville girls’ basketball team struggled to put points on the board and couldn’t corral the surging Graves County Lady Eagles in a 63-31 loss Tuesday night in Mayfield. The Lady Tigers have dropped three of four ahead of a big 8th-District meeting at Christian County on Friday. Graves County wins its ninth-straight to improve to 14-3 in former Webster County coach Brandon Fisher’s first season in Mayfield.
Donisha Flowers scored 6 points in the first quarter for Hopkinsville, but Graves’ Raychel Mathis and Callie Jackson combined for 10 to give the Lady Eagles a 14-10 lead.
Mathis and Jackson matched their first-quarter effort in the second and Graves outscored Hoptown 15-7, despite 5 points from Lakayla Samuel, for a 29-17 halftime advantage.
Flowers scored 5 out of the locker room for the Lady Tigers, but that would be all they could manage. Nealey Jackson got going with 6 in the third for the Lady Eagles and the margin ballooned to 24. Jackson chipped in 8 more in the fourth, one less than the Lady Tigers would score over the final eight minutes.
Hopkinsville 10 7 5 9 — 31
Graves County 14 15 17 19 — 63
Hopkinsville (9-10) — Flowers 12, Samuel 7
Graves County (14-3) — Mathis 20, N. Jackson 19, C. Jackson 16
