Lionettes Attempt To Ground Owls This Afternoon In High School Basketball Tourney

The Cannon County Lionettes basketball team will take center stage this afternoon at the Hooper Eblen Center at Tennessee Tech to kick off day 2 of the District 8-AA tournament in Cookeville.  The Lionettes finished the regular season 10-19 and 4-10 in District play.  Currently the Lionettes are on a 7 game losing streak and the team knows it has to win
tonight or their season is finished.  Their opponent the Smith County Lady Owls finished third in the district with a 10-4 District record 17-10 overall.  Two of those wins were against the Lionettes 61-40 in Carthage and 46-37 in Woodbury.  The game starts at 4:00 this afternoon and will be broadcast live on AM-1540/ FM107.9 WBRY and streaming live on wbry.com