The Lady Gators (4-6) fell victim to the Lady Wildcats (8-1) for the second time Tuesday, December 16 losing 63-45. Valdosta, winners of eight straight, notched a 61-35 victory in the December 2 home meeting.
The Lady Wildcats scored 61 points or better for the seventh consecutive game.
Glynn Academy (9-4) won its eighth consecutive game finishing off a season sweep of the Lady Gators notching a 4726 home victory Saturday, December 20. The Lady Red Terrors posted a 55-41 road victory December 5.
The Lady Gators, who have dropped six of their last eight games, hosted Richmond Hill Monday, December 22 to close out the 2025 portion of their schedule. Ware County returns to action Tuesday, January 6 traveling to Hilliard (Fla.) High School for a girls’ only matchup.
Valdosta....................................63 Lady Gators ..............................45
Valdosta pulled away from a one-point halftime lead outscoring the Lady Gators 35-18 over the final 16 minutes to get the win.
The Lady Wildcats jumped out to a 148 first quarter advantage. They steadily doubled the margin to 28-16 late in the second period before Ware County closed out the first half with an 11-0 run to climb to within 28-27.
That would be as close as Ware County would get suffering through cold shooting and turnovers over the final two periods.
Valdosta outpointed the Lady Gators 13-4 in the third period in building a 4131 lead. The margin ballooned to as many as 21 points over the final eight minutes with the Lady Wildcats eventually posting a 22-14 scoring advantage for the 18point victory.
Lydia Munford (two treys) led a trio of Lady Gators reaching double figures finishing with 13 points. Bre Hill and A’Treasure White contributed 11 and 10 points respectively.
Bailey Denton (trey) was next with four points, followed by the three points of Madisyn Daniels. Nevaeh Norton and LeLe Reid bagged two points apiece.
Valdosta’s Lauren Bloom scored a game-high 21 points to go along with 11 steals for a double-double. She had three of the Lady Wildcats’ 11 blocked shots. Imani Hall (three treys) was next with 11 points - all in the final period.
Glynn Academy .........................47 Lady Gators...............................26
BRUNSWICK — The Lady Red Terrors’ defense limited Ware County to one basket over the final 16 minutes to pull away.
Glynn Academy captured an eightpoint first quarter advantage, let it slip to five at intermission and then control in the second half.
Down 15-7 after one quarter, the Lady Gators whittled the deficit to 24-19 at intermission after outscoring the home team 12-9 in the second period.
The rim was unkind to Ware County in the third and fourth quarters. The Lady Gators scored their only basket of the second half in the third quarter getting outscored 14-3 to trail 38-22 with eight minutes remaining. They were outpointed 9-4 in the final period going 4of-12 from the free throw line.
Treasure and Munford (two threes) led the Lady Gators with six points apiece. Reid, Denton (trey) and Daniels (trey) followed with three points each.
Charmaine Farrell, Ri’Janae Buford, Reagan Ash, Janiya Lane and Norton each converted a free throw attempt finishing with one point apiece.
The Lady Red Terrors were paced by the 17 points of Alyssa Martin and 16 points by Faith Jernigan.
