After surviving two close games in the past week, the Cannon County Lionettes couldn’t overcome a third one. The Smith County Lady Owls came into Woodbury Friday night ready to take on the Cannon County Lionettes and mix up the district race a little bit. Neither team could run away from the other one even though Smith led at the end of all four quarters in the game. The game saw 8 lead changes and five ties. The Lady Owls was able to gain an 8 point cushion in the fourth quarter and after taking off precious time by stalling the ball toward the end of the game were able to notch a 64-58 upset of the Lionettes Abbey Sissom led all Lionette scorers with 23 and Abby Jakes added 10 in the loss. The Lionettes are still on top of the district race with a 4-1 record, second place Livingston survived an overtime game against Central Magnet 47-45 to improve their district record to 4-1 but are in second place due to Cannon winning at Livingston last week. The Cannon County Lions found there’s no place like home though. After dropping 8 of their last 9 games on the road, the Lions mired in a shooting slump came back home and made it look easy against a Smith County team looking for their fifth overall win. Cannon got out to a 5 point end of first quarter lead. That lead grew by as many as 14 several times in the game en route to a 60-48 win over the Owls. Cory Henley scored 14 to lead the Lions while Tanner Larson ended up with 10. The 18-2 Lionettes and 9-10 Lions will travel to Wartrace Monday to meet Cascade High School in a non district game.
