Update: Kennedale lost to Glen Rose 56-42 ending season at 21-17, 12-0
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The Kennedale Lady Kats have made it to the 3rd round of the UIL Girls 4A Basketball Championships. The Kats will play the Glen Rose Lady Tigers tonight at 6 p.m. at Joshua High School. The winner moves on to the “Sweet 16.”?{{more: continue …}}
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The matchup ?
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Glen Rose has been a top rated team all year, currently ranked #2 in Class 4A by the Texas Girls Coaches Association. MaxPreps have the Tigers ranked #5. With a record of 32-1, 12-0, they have earned their the honors. Kennedale enters the game as the underdog with a record of 21-16, 12-0.
- Glen Rose won District 8-4A in a sweep beating out Midlothian Heritage, Stephenville, Goldey, Venus, Life Waxahacie and Alvarado. There were only two teams that had losing records in that district. Both Heritage and Stephenville? with Heritage losing to Abilene Wylie while Stephenville won and take on Wylie tonight.?
- Glen Rose only loss this season was against 5A Everman (25-8, 8-6) by one point 34-33.?
- An unknown factor is that Kennedale cut it teeth playing 5A or 6A teams (3 were TAPPS 5A/6A teams) in early season play. Sixteen out of the 22 teams on the schedule in non-district play were above classification.? Glen Rose played two – 5A Everman and TAPPS 5A Fort Worth All-Saints.
- In games against the same opponent, both Kennedale and Glen Rose defeated Castleberry and Godley while Glen Rose defeated Stephenville and Kennedale lost to Stephenville.?
- Glen Rose averages 57.5 points per game while Kennedale averages 61.2. Glen Rose has allowed 937 points but has score 1,896 points while Kennedale has allowed 1,946 while scoring 2,264 points.?
- In first round action, Glen Rose defeated Castleberry (12-16, 5-7) by a score of 94-23. Last week in the area round, Glen Rose won against Brownwood (29-6, 6-2) by a score of 42-31.?
- Kennedale defeated Godley (17-20, 7-6) 58-53 in bi-district play and then defeated Snyder (14-18, 4-4) 50-46 in the area round.
- Last year both teams made it to the third round before losing. Glen Rose (29-8) lost to Stephenville (28-7) 35-32. Kennedale (33-4) lost to Godley (35-5) who then went on to lose in the state semi-finals.?
The take ?
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?It is no understatement to say that Kennedale has to be on its game. Kennedale does have some things going for it. First, Kennedale is an experience playoff program. Making it to this round is just automatically assumed each year. Second while this was a rebuilding year for Kennedale, they fought through a tough pre-district scheduled to go undefeated in district play.??While playing in the playoffs for the Lady Kats is just another part of the season, becoming one of the final 16 in the playoffs is unique and really cuts to quality and consistency. Kennedale has the talent although young, it is the consistency that will have to be stepped up. The potential remains and so does the upset possibility.??
