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December 7, 2012

Gate City shuts down Grundy girls 43-35

By LLOYD COMBS Bluefield Daily Telegraph

BRISTOL, Va. — Thursday’s nightcap of the Bordeline Classic quarterfinals matched up a perennial state power against a team hoping to become one.

Gate City and Grundy both struggled to make shots and sometimes get them, but the Blue Devils prevailed, 43-35, behind the second-half play of Jordan Gose, who scored nine of her 13 points and nine of her 10 rebounds after the intermission.

It wasn’t pretty.

Neither team made a significant run in the first half, but Grundy made just enough shots to build a modest 24-20 halftime lead behind Morgan Hall, who scored six points and grabbed half of her rebounds before the break.

Loni Webb scored 12 points for the Golden Wave, who took a 32-31 lead into the final period when Gate City held them without a field goal and just three points.

Despite a slew of turnovers itself the Blue Devils took the lead for good early in the fourth quarter on back-back buckets by Gose. Gate City ended the game on an 8-2 run.

Morgan Gose added 13 points for Gate City , which will face Unaka in tonight’s 8:30 p.m. semifinal nightcap.

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