Lady Lions lose at Groesbeck, roar past Buffalo

Last week proved to be oneIt’s coming down to the wire for the Teague girls basketball team.

The Lady Lions need to finish one game better than Groesbeck (13-10, 5-6 in District 20-3A) to clinch the fourth place playoff spot. Teague (16-13, 5-6 in 20-3A) was swept by the Lady Goats, but with wins at Mexia (13-13, 7-4 in 20-3A) on Friday and at home against Elkhart (13-14, 4-7 in 20-3A), the Lady Lions could even get into the third-place spot if Mexia also loses to Buffalo on Tuesday and Groesbeck loses either at Westwood on Friday and at home against Franklin on Tuesday.

Tip off for Teague’s last two games are at 6:15 p.m. Friday in Mexia and Tuesday in Teague.

GROESBECK 29, TEAGUE 19

The Lady Lions struggled in a 29-19 loss at Groesbeck last Friday. Groesbeck completed a season-series sweep of Teague and holds the headto- head tiebreaker.

Linsey Satterwhite was the leading scorer for the Lady Lions with 6 points. Adyson Beaird and Payton Bond each had 11 rebounds for Teague, who played without leading scorer and rebounder Bethanah Owens. The junior post sat out with illness.

A’shaiya Jones also had five steals.

TEAGUE 43, BUFFALO 35

Owens had 22 points and 24 rebounds to go with four steals as the Lady Lions roared past Buffalo, 43-35, on Jan. 23, in Teague.

The performance was Owens’ ninth double-double in 12 games.

She technically had a triple-double - 22 points, 11 offensive rebounds, 13 defensive rebounds.

Jones also had 13 points for the Lady Lions.