THE OFFICIAL SITE OF
Van Buren High School Athletics

Harrison’s Marion Groberg seemed to be one step ahead of the Van Buren Lady Pointers on Thursday night. Groberg scored nine points and gobbled up 12 rebounds to pace Harrison to a 43-38 win at Clair Bates Arena. “She was a definite factor in the game,” Van Buren coach Chris Bryant said. “Every time we tried to put a run together, hit a couple of shots in a row, she would find a way to get an offensive rebound. There would be a deflection or a loose ball, and it seemed like she would always come up with it.” Harrison (9-2) made just 2-of-10 field goals to start the game, giving the Pointers (6-3) a chance stretch a 10-6 lead. But Van Buren, just 5-of-21 to start the game from the floor, failed to take advantage of Harrison’s slow start. And Brylie Parker made them pay. Parker hit two treys to fuel an 11-5 run to close the half, and her fourth trey of the game with with four minutes left gave the Goblins their biggest lead of the night at 35-29. But the Pointers’ Kayleigh Evans, who had 10 points off the bench, hit a layup to draw Van Buren to within four, and Lexi Millers’ steal and driving layup cut the deficit to two with 3:23 left. Harrison turned the ball over with 2:21 left, but Evans missed a twisting shot in the lane that could have tied it. After that, the Goblins hit 8-of-8 free throw attempts in the final 1:11 to help put the game away. Miller’s layup with 23.4 left pulled Van Buren to within 39-38, but Parker calmly sank two foul shots with 14.8 to stretch the Goblins’ lead back to three. “Harrison’s a really good squad; they came in here and brought the fight to us,” Bryant said. “Our offense affected our defense a little bit, and it kind of put us on our heels. I thought going into halftime we would get a chance to come back out and rededicate ourselves defensively, but they seemed a step quicker and seemed to get every 50-50 ball. That’s something we’ll learn from on film and have an opportunity to correct.”

THE OFFICIAL SITE OF
Van Buren High School Athletics

HARRISON HOLDS OFF LADY POINTERS, 43-38

KEVIN TAYLOR

Times Record | 12/21/2018

PHOTO CREDIT: Aaron Shaffer