Back-to-Back 2REGION All A Champs

PRINCETON, Ky. – Leave it to the coach’s kid – the proverbial gym rat – to light up the sky when her team is reaching for the moon.

Eighth-grader Jordyn Hodge scored a career-high 26 points, including four three-pointers and 16 points in in the closing minutes as Crittenden County won its second straight Second Region All Classic championship Saturday by holding off Lyon County 60-57.

Jordyn Hodge (11) sank six of her
team's nine three-pointers.
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The daughter of 31-year Lady Rocket skipper Shannon Hodge, the middle school marksman drained six of her team’s nine treys as Crittenden struggled to score inside against Lyon’s zone defense.

“Before the game we had a really good shoot-around, did a bunch of good drills, then I guess it just fell when we needed it the most,” said the eighth-grade guard.

At times this season, Crittenden has struggled to find the bucket from the floor. The girls entered the championship game shooting 36 percent as a team, and Hodge 32 percent from long range.

“Coming in here playing Lyon County, obviously it’s a rival game, so you’re going to be nervous. But you just have to play to the best of your ability and I think that’s what we did,” said sophomore Anna Boone, the team’s leading scorer this season who dropped 17 in the regional final. “Jordyn scored a whole bunch of threes which helped us a lot.”

Neither team led by more than four points until the fourth period when Hodge got hot from the left corner and lifted the Lady Rockets to a nine-point lead with four minutes to play.

“It was a total team effort that’s for sure,” Coach Hodge said. “You don’t win when everybody hadn’t played hard, but Jordyn did come up big in the fourth quarter putting the ball in the basket for us. I’m proud of the entire team.”

A furious defensive buzz by Lyon got CCHS on its heels for a bit down the home stretch, but accurate foul shooting and a layup bucket in transition by sophomore Bristyn Rushing held off the Lyons.

Crittenden County, now 10-7, has won three of the last four All A regional titles and a Second-Region-best nine championships in tournament history. Lyon County drops to 12-6 and has lost six straight to CCHS since 2022.

The Lady Rockets will play 11th Region champion Lexington Christian at 7pm (CST) Wednesday, Jan. 24 at Corbin in the All A State Championship Tournament.

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Lyon County 21 28 34 57

Crittenden Co. 17 27 38 60

LYON – Taylor 18, Cotham 14, Collins 13, Holland 10, Perry 2. 

CRITTENDEN – Boone 17, Evans 4, Hodge 26, Federico 5, Rushing 6, Holeman 2, Stewart. FG 22. 3-pointers 9 (Hodge 6, Boone 3). FT 7-8.