The Community R-6 girls saw how they stacked up to the best in their district on Friday.
One night after beating North Shelby 43-28 at home, the Lady Trojans lost 65-23 to Central Activities Conference foe and Class 1 No. 1 Cairo (20-6, 10-0 CAC). Community (16-10, 6-4 CAC) had the ball stolen away 16 times and was down 23-5 after one quarter. Macie Harman led Cairo with 18 points, including reaching 1,500 career points on her final bucket, Addison Bailey finished with 14 points, and Olivia Cross had 10 points and four steals. Jocelyn Curtis led Community with eight points, and Peyton Beamer had eight points, five rebounds and three steals.
Community as the No. 3 seed faces No. 6 Wellsville-Middletown (6-20) at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Class 1 District 9 tournament in Madison.
Look for the full story in the Mexico Ledger and on the website next week.
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