Oakland Girls Claim District Tournament Championship

Feb 24, 2020 at 10:50 pm by bryan


The Oakland girls are crowned district champions. WGNS' Bryan Barrett has more:

Coming off their semifinal win over number one Blackman, the Lady Patriots captured the District 7-AAA Tournament Championship defeating Riverdale 27-24:

Junior Claira McGowen scored 15 points in the win and had 59 for the tournament. She was chosen the tournament's most valuable player.

Stewarts Creek took third place in the tournament, defeating Blackman 51-46.

Blackman's Iyana Moore, Stewarts Creek's Zyion Shannon, Oakland's Nicole Egeruoh and Alasia and Acacia Hayes from Riverdale were named to the all tournament team.

The Region 4-AAA tournament is set for girls. Play begins Friday night at 7 at the higher seed. Blackman travels to Coffee County, which will be on WGNS. Stewarts Creek goes to Tullahoma, Lawrence County is at Riverdale and Oakland hosts Franklin Co.

WGNS will have coverage of the district tournament boys consolation and championship games Tuesday night. Riverdale plays Oakland in the consolation game at 6 with Blackman versus Siegel at 7:30.

ALL DISTRICT REGULAR SEASON

Faith Anderson, Rockvale
Nicole Egeruoh, Oakland
Claira McGowan, Oakland
TK Goff, Riverdale
Katelyn Worely, Riverdale
Madison Henegar, Stewarts Creek
Zhordan Shannon, Stewarts Creek
Zyion Shannon, Stewarts Creek
Iyana Moore, Blackman
Kaylee Odom, Blackman

Victoria Page, Blackman
Joelle Patton, Blackman

DISTRICT 7AAA GIRLS MVP
Alasia Hayes, Riverdale

DISTRICT 7AAA GIRLS COACH OF THE YEAR
Wendi Scott, Blackman

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