CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) – Emma Freels making a game-winning shot? Not a shock.
But the way the North Marion junior did it, in the Class AAA state semifinals no less, surprised her coach a little.
“She made a right-handed layup. She doesn’t make a lot of those,” Mike Parrish laughed. “I told her, she’ll remember that for the rest of her life.”
“I turned and looked at Parrish and he was like, ‘Go!’ I was like, ‘All right, that right side’s open. I’ve got to take it.’ Somehow it went in,” Freels said.
Freels’ basket, breaking a tie against Ripley in the final seconds, is the latest WV News Play of the Week, sponsored by GameChangers.
“We had two plans. We had a box we run on the sideline, if we had that,” Parrish said of the clinching play. “If not, we were spreading them out. I told Emma to get to the rim or kick it out.”
Freels scored 17 points in that game and followed it up a night later with 18 as the Huskies claimed their fifth state title, all of them under the leadership of Parrish, by an 88-60 final against Philip Barbour.
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