Pierce's 27 points leads Lady Jets to the Region 2 final

SHAWNEE, Oklahoma -- Sophomore Andi Pierce scored 27 points leading NOC Enid to a 70-60 win over Seminole Friday at OBU in the Region 2 Semi-Finals.

The Lady Jets (27-5) tip-off at 2 p.m. Saturday against top seed NEO (26-4).

Lady Jet head coach Scott Morris talked about the grind of the Region 2 playoffs.

"You are seeing these teams for the third time and there's no secrets," he said.  "It's going to be tough to advance.  Seminole is a tough, aggressive team that won't quit and we knew that coming in.  We played well but we knew it was going to take the full 40 minutes."

"I'm proud of our team," he added.  "We have a lot of good individual parts but they are unselfish to make our team better and I appreciate them for that."

Euresia Brown also reached double figures with 10.  Taylor Sylvester added 10 rebounds and three blocks.

NOC Enid led from start to finish building a 33-24 halftime lead and extended the lead to 52-34 late in the third quarter.  Seminole cut the lead to 56-47 with 8:58 remaining but the Lady Jets quickly went on a 6-0 run to build the lead back to 62-47.

NOC Enid shot 42 percent from the field and held Seminole to 36 percent.

Seminole finished the year at 13-15.

                 1     2     3    4--Total

Northern  17   16    21   16-- 70

Seminole 10   14    18   18-- 60

NOC--Andi Pierce 27, Euresia Brown 11, Addi Meeker 8, Tanara Combs 7, McKenna Pulley 6, Taylor Sylvester 6, Kammi Gruber 5.

Seminole--Kaci Richardson 17, Mykayla Dumas 10, Summer Jones 9, Pamela Grover 9, Tra'chael Quarles 7, Dembri Weeks 3, Ren Long 3, Breail Goodlow 2.