The Snowflake Lady Lobos cruised through their final three East Region games of the season to win the region title with a perfect mark. Snowflake beat Blue Ridge 52-30, Payson 56-36 and Show Low 47-29 in last week’s action.
Playing at home on Tuesday, the Lady Lobos started slowly and led by just eight points at the half, but in the third quarter they outscored the Blue Ridge Lady Yellowjackets by 18 points to pull away to a comfortable margin.
Natalie Elkins played well, leading Snowflake with 18 points. Devrie Woodside added 9, Tara Nezzie and Reagan Godfrey, 7 each, Alex Merrill and Lisha Titus, 4 each, Caitlyn Despain, 2, and Brylee Copeland, 1.
Blue Ridge 7 10 4 9 30
Snowflake 10 15 22 5 52
On Friday night Snowflake hosted Payson and jumped out to an early eight-point lead. That margin quickly grew to double digits before the half, then the Lady Lobos cruised to a 20-point win.
Elkins kept her hot shooting touch and led all scorers with 25 points. Godfrey added 14, Titus, 10, Nezzie, 5, and Woodside and Merrill, 1 reach.
Payson 7 11 11 7 36
Snowflake 15 17 13 11 56
After playing five straight home games in the past couple of weeks, the Lady Lobos finally went back on the road, though it was a short trip to Show Low, where they played well defensively, holding the Lady Cou-gars to just eight first half points.
Godfrey led the team with 17 points on four of five shooting from three-point range. Elkins added 13, Merrill, 6, Woodside, 5, Lisha Titus, 4, and Nezzie, 2.
Snowflake 14 15 12 6 47
Show Low 6 2 12 9 29
Snowflake will wrap up the regular season on Thursday, Feb. 3, with a non-region trip to Ganado to face a struggling Lady Hornets team.
As the top seed from the region they will receive a bye in the first round of the East Region Tournament, which gets underway next week.
