’Dawgs win comeback OT nail-biter, give Bishop first varsity win
HARDIN – It started with a free throw.
Hardin-Central trailed Grundy County/ Newtown-Harris 37-36 when Morgan Finley went to the foul line with 1 minute, 51 seconds left in overtime of Monday’s non-conference meeting.
By sinking one of two free throws, Finley sparked a 7-0 comeback run that helped the Bulldogs secure a 43-41 win – their first this season and Morgan Bishop’s first win as a varsity girls basketball coach.
“It’s definitely exciting, especially coming down to a last-minute, lastsecond thriller,” Bishop said. “I’m proud of the girls. … I don’t credit myself any; I credit them. They played hard.”
Accomplishing the two firsts was “amazing,” Finley said.
“We got tied up at the end of the fourth (quarter) and we were like, ‘OK, we gotta do this for our team and for our coaches,’ and that was just our main mentality and we finally got flowing. … Shots just started falling underneath, and that’s really what helped us win in overtime,” she said.
Overtime was not the first…