Marietta Tops Lassiter, Advances to State Tournament
A 57-40 Region 5-AAAAA tournament win moves the Lady Blue Devils closer to a region title.
To say the Lassiter Trojans faced a tall task against second-seeded Marietta in the first round of the Region 5-AAAAA girls tournament at Etowah High School would be like saying the Beatles were famous–a huge understatement. Lassiter entered the game with just one win all season and had lost to Marietta 51-20 and 57-30 in the regular season. And the Trojans had to try to pull the upset without head coach Jon Christopher, serving a standard two-game suspension for being ejected in the next-to-last game of the regular season. Marietta won 57-40, but Lassiter, under assistant coach Rebecca Edgerton, didn’t go down without a fight. “I told the girls to leave it all on the court tonight,” Edgerton said. “Everything we’ve taught them, everything…
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