Parkersburg, WV -

On a night when Patriot Jill Stephens scored her 1000th career point en route to 23 points and 19 rebounds, Parkersburg South handed Class AAA No. 2 Morgantown it's first loss of the season.

Lauren Blair added 19 points, Heidi Floyd 16, Brittney Harvey 13, and Ashley Curry 12.   Coach Scott Stephens was especially pleased with the play of Blair, Harvey and Curry, who he felt each played their best games of the year.

South entertains another top team Tuesday night as Class AA No. 1 Magnolia visits the R.O.A.C.

Morgantown          19  13  14  21  = 67

Parkersburg South  19  24  19 25  = 87

South Scoring:   Molinari 0 1-2 1, Floyd 7 0-0 16, Curry 2 7-8 12, Harvey 4 2-2 13, Wolfe 1 0-0 3, Stephens 8 7-9 23, Blair 8 3-5 19. Totals 30 20-26 87.

Morgantown Scoring:   Joseph 4 3-4 14, Drake 2 0-2 4, Bonasso 2 0-0 4, Lovett 1 4-5 7, Whiting 1 0-0 2, J. Lewis 4 1-4 9, Pryor 10 1-2 22, Hagood 2 1-2 5.   Totals 26 10-19 67.

Parkersburg South romps to 87-67 win

The Dominion Post

PARKERSBURG -- The Parkersburg South girls' basketball team seems to have Morgantown High's number in the regular season.

Jill Stephens scored 23 points and all five Patriots starters scored in double figures as No. 4 Parkersburg South cruised past No. 2 Morgantown, 87-67, Friday.

"It was a perfect game played by Parkersburg South," MHS coach Allan Collins said. "They would have beaten anybody in the state tonight."

It was the first loss by MHS in a regular-season game since Dec. 29, 2001. The opponent in that game more than two years ago? Parkersburg South.

"I don't think five girls have scored in double figures against Morgantown High before," Collins added. "Jill Stephens had a great night and is a very good player, but she looks a lot better when the other players around her are hitting from the outside."

Keri Pryor led MHS (11-1) with 22 points, 19 of them in the second half. Joanna Joseph added 14 for the Mohigans, who will host No. 5 University High on Tuesday.

"I don't think our girls were looking ahead to that game," Collins said. "I give credit to Parkersburg South for playing a great game. We missed some free throws and didn't play well."

Lauren Blair followed up Stephens with 19 points and Heidi Floyd added 16 for the Patriots (7-3).

South tops Morgantown

By STEVE HEMMELGARN, Parkersburg News & Sentinel

PARKERSBURG - Fourth-ranked Parkersburg South turned its mid-season girls basketball showdown with undefeated No. 2 Morgantown into a shambles with maybe the Patriots best game of the year in an 87-67 thumping of the visiting Mohigans at the Rod Oldham Athletic Center Friday night.

Stephens too became a 1,000-point career scorer with her sixth point of the game on a basket at the 6:45 mark of the second quarter. She became the second-fastest in school history, either boys or girls, to 1,000 points. The first was Kim Crawford.

''I had no idea at all,'' said Stephens of being near the 1,000-point barrier. Stephens thought she might make it to 1,000 ''by the end of the year if I pushed it.''

But Stephens was told before the game that she only needed a half-dozen points to accomplish the feat, and admitted it ''definitely'' was better to get it out of the way early, then concentrate on winning the game.

Seniors Lauren Blair, who finished with 17 points, and Heidi Floyd, with 16 in the game, keyed two South comebacks in the first quarter to earn a 19-all deadlock after one quarter after Morgantown, now 11-1, had taken 9-2 and 17-9 leads.

A late surge to end the second stanza propelled South into a 43-32 halftime lead.

The 12-4 run started on a trey by Ashley Curry, who had 12 points in the game, and a Stephens rebound bucket and closed out the first half with a personal seven-point spurt by senior Brittany Harvey, who had 13 points, in the final 57.5 seconds on two free throws, an outside shot and a trey.

Then South kicked off the second half with a 12-2 run, sparked by Blair, Floyd and Harvey, to surge into a commanding 55-34 lead at the 5:19 mark. After that burst, the Patriots' edge was never any less than 15 the rest of the game.

Keri Pryor paced the Mohigan point-production with 22, followed by Joanna Joseph with 13. Touted senior Rebecca Bonasso netted just four points in the game.

''That's the best we've played for a whole game,'' said first-year South head coach Scott Stephens, Jill's dad. ''We've played that well for a quarter or two, but we put four pretty good quarters together tonight against a very good basketball team.''

The coach singled out three of his players - Blair, Curry and Harvey - ''as playing the best they've ever played since they came to high school. This is my first big win as a (head) coach, but our kids just played their hearts - they played great.''