If you ask Cannon County Lionette Head Basketball Coach Michael Dodgen if he would love to have Abbey Sissom stick around and score another 2000 points for the Lionettes basketball program, he wouldn’t waste a second in answering yes. Saturday night Abbey poured in 32 points and scored point number 2000 in her high school career as the Cannon County Lionettes swept the season series against non district opponent Coffee County with a 68-36 win. Madison Walkup continued her hot shooting as well scoring 13 points and Autumn King came off the bench to provide 7. The Lionettes ran their overall record to 11-1 and will participate in the Rhea County Classic in Evensville TN right outside of Dayton. The Cannon County Lions will take an 11-1 record into this coming weekend’s road trip to Maryville. The Lions picked up a win in Manchester Saturday night 59-48 over the Coffee County Red Raiders. The game was much closer than it could have been as Cannon got out to a 19 point lead in the third quarter only to have Coffee County reel off an 8-0 run to eventually pull within 8. Cannon got 25 points from Cory Henley and 10 points from Tanner Larson and Josh Ruehlan. Cannon will participate in the Heritage Classic starting Thursday in Maryville.
