Uniontown girls beat Chetopa

CHETOPA, Kan. -- Uniontown's girls concluded regular-season play by beating Chetopa, 56-38, in a Three Rivers League make-up game here Thursday night.

Chetopa's boys defeated Uniontown, 51-46. No other information was provided about the game.

Both Uniontown teams begin Kansas Class 3A Sub-State Tournament play Tuesday night with a doubleheader at Kansas City Christian in Prairie Village as, by coincidence, both the girls' and boys' teams happened to be seeded against each other. Uniontown girls (5-3 TRL, 10-10 overall) are the No. 5 seed in the tournament while KCC (9-10) is No. 4.

Eagle boys (1-7, 5-15) are seeded sixth while the Panthers (11-8) are the third seed. The doubleheader tips off at 6 p.m. with the girls playing first.

In Thursday night's game, the Eagles pulled away by outscoring the Green Hornets (1-7, 3-17) 21-5 in the third quarter. That made Uniontown's lead 36-23 going into the final stanza.

"We got off to a slow start," Uniontown head coach Ken Holt said. "But we played well in the second and third quarters. I think all of these games recently (six in 10 days) were taking a toll."

Brooke Harper led the Eagles with 13 points as she connected on 5 of 8 field-goal attempts, including three 3-pointers.

"Brooke gave us a boost in the third when she got all 13 of her points in about a five-minute span," Holt said.

Hayden Rathbun added 12 points for Uniontown. Hope Jurgensen in rebounding with 9 boards. Lauren Rockhold dished 3 of the Eagles' 14 assists. Tayler Shook had 3 of their 12 steals.

UNIONTOWN: Harper 5-8 0-0 13, Rathbun 5-10 2-8 12, Esslinger 3-10 0-0 9, Jurgensen 1-7 5-8 7, Shinn 3-5 0-0 6, Aikins 0-4 5-8 5, Coyan 2-3 0-1 4, Dixon 0-4 0-2 0, Ulrey 0-3 0-2 0 Brown 0-1 0-0 0, Ridge 0-2 0-0 0, Shook 0-4 0-0 0. TOTALS: 19-62 12-29 56.

CHETOPA: Pease 4-15 4-6 14, Jackson 4-16 1-3 11, Underwood 1-5 0-0 2, Withington 1-6 0-2 2, Conard 1-5 0-0 2, No. 25 Kabrey 1-2 0-4 2, No. 33 Kabrey 0-2 0-0 0, Brown 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 13-67 8-27 36.

Chetopa............. 7 11 5 15 -- 38

Three-point field goals: Uniontown 6-17 (Harper 3-6, Esslinger 3-8, Rathbun 0-1, Ulrey 0-1, Shook 0-1), Chetopa 4-10 (Jackson 2-4, Pease 2-6).

Total fouls: n/a.

Rebounds: Uniontown 45 (Jurgensen 9), Chetopa 37. Assists: Uniontown 14 (Rockhold 3), Chetopa 8. Turnovers: Uniontown 23, Chetopa 24. Steals: Uniontown 12 (Shook 3), Chetopa 4.