NATCHEZ &045; Already outmanned in personnel, Ferriday’s Lady Trojans finally found a seam and put together a 6-0 run midway through the second quarter.

Then Natchez High made their subs. The Lady Bulldogs brought in a fresh five players &045; again.

The Class 2A Lady Trojans don’t have that luxury and have to play a number of underclassmen. So the Lady Bulldogs kept rotating fresh legs in, never quit with the defensive pressure and left with a 78-41 win over the Lady Trojans.

&uot;Their defense was smothering us half to death,&uot; Ferriday head coach Lisa Abron said. &uot;We weren’t able to recognize when a double-team was coming. You’ve got to get rid of the ball and get it to the middle, but we wanted to go to the corners and stop. It was turnovers in the beginning. I knew depth was going to be an issue. We only have nine, and six of those nine play. They were rotating in and out five at a time.&uot;

The Lady Bulldogs (9-8) rotated just about everyone except their post players &045; namely Jasmine Woods. Delequa Drake ran into foul trouble, but Woods kept getting the ball down low and finishing against a Ferriday team that had a junior and sophomore on the block.

Woods finished with 21 points, including 11 in the third quarter.

&uot;Jaz and DQ are both playing in spurts,&uot; Natchez High head coach Sue Johnson said. &uot;If we can get them to click in the same game, we’re going to be awesome. Right now we’re not consistent. We need to get more consistency out of our post play. I think that’s going to come in time, too.&uot;

Natchez led 15-2 at the end of the first before the Lady Trojans (16-4) had their best run of the game &045; that 6-0 run with a Jameca Garrison bucket finishing it off to trim the NHS lead to 23-13.

Then Erica Jackson converted a three-point play to stop the run, and the Lady Bulldogs later went into halftime with a 33-15 lead.

In the third the Lady Bulldogs pounded it into Woods, who came up with a three-point play early for a 36-19 lead. She came up with a bucket on a putback at the 3:21 mark to put the lead at 50-22 and another with 30 seconds left for a 58-25 lead heading into the fourth quarter.

Kiawanna McDowell led Ferriday with 14 points.

Harrisonburg 52, Monterey 43

HARRISONBURG, La. &045; Jasmine Dunbar scored a game-high 26 points and pulled down 15 rebounds in leading Harrisonburg to a over the Lady Wolves in a key district game for both teams.

&uot;We’ve had three players who just recently came back from injuries,&uot; Lady Bulldogs head coach Barbara McGuffee said. &uot;One was just released tonight. The other two came back last week. They came out strong.&uot;

The score was tied at 9-9 after one quarter of play. Then the Lady Bulldogs outscored the Lady Wolves (16-8, 1-1) 17-8 in the second quarter for a 26-17 halftime lead.

Harrisonburg (21-8, 2-0) had a tough time guarding Monterey’s post player Morgan White for part of the game. Then McGuffee switched to a box-and-one defense. White finished with 17 points.

Amite 46, WCCA 45

LIBERTY &045; Amite School Center rallied in the third quarter and tied the game at 30-30 going into the fourth quarter, and the Lady Rebels then had to hold off a barrage of three-pointers late in the game by WCCA to hold on for the one-point win.

Amite (8-14, 6-0) led by 12 points at one point in the fourth quarter. Then WCCA (5-11, 4-4) got two three-pointers from Cari Whetstone and one each from Kari Benton and Lil Netterville.

The second three-pointer by Whetstone, who led the Lady Rams with 12 points, cut the lead to one after Amite, holding a three-point lead, made one of two free throws.

Franklin Co. 52, North Pike 43

SUMMIT &045; The Lady Bulldogs broke an 8-8 tie after one quarter of play by outscoring North Pike 15-8 in the second quarter en route to the nine-point win and a regular-season sweep of the Lady Jaguars.

Victoria Hunt led Franklin County (12-3, 3-1) with 23 points. Britta Stephens led North Pike (11-5, 2-2) with 12 points.

Huntington 43, River Oaks 33

MONROE, La. &045; After the Lady Hounds jumped out to an 11-point halftime lead, the Lady Mustangs rallied in the third quarter and cut the lead to just four going into the fourth quarter.

That’s when Huntington (10-9, 2-1) re-established control of the game, outscoring River Oaks (9-7, 2-1) 10-4 for the 10-point win.

Tensas 59, Franklin Aca. 25

WINNSBORO, La. &045; Tensas went out to a 21-3 lead at the end of the first quarter and cruised in to the finish line from there. The Lady Chiefs outscored their opponents in each quarter en route to the easy win.

Megan Bauerle led Tensas with 15 points.

Port Gibson 53, Jefferson 38

FAYETTE &045; The Lady Blue Waves jumped out early and didn’t look back, getting a 28-17 halftime lead behind the strong play of Nakia Dotson and Precious Baker, who combined for 36 points in the game, nearly outscoring Jefferson by themselves.

Baker led her team with 19 points. Stacy Thomas headed up the Lady Tigers with 12 points.