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Marion surges in 4th to upset Kennedy girls
Marion outscored Kennedy 16-9 in the fourth quarter Saturday night to upset the Class 4A seventh-ranked Cougars, 69-62, at Marion in the regular season finale for both teams.
At the end of three quarters the game was knotted at 53. Kennedy's Courtney Strait scored 16 of her game-high 35 points in that quarter.
But at that point Marion went to a diamond-and-one defense and dared the rest of the Cougars to score. Kennedy scored two field goals and nine points in the deciding quarter.
“In the fourth quarter they put a lot more emphasis on me and I was not able to get the ball,” said Strait. “It seemed like I never got the ball with an opportunity to turn it into points."
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