The White County Tourney was hosted by Delphi this year and the Oracles made it to the champiuonship game by defeating Frontier, 52-47, before losing to Tri-County, 66-41.

In the opener Delphi beat Frontier for the second time in nine days. Arebound and putback by Stauffer started the Oracles scoring and they would build a 95 lead before ending the quarter one point ahead, 12-11. Frontier scored two baskets to lead 15-12, when Leah Cree hit a three to tie it. Frontier then scored the game’s next ten points for a 25-15 advantage. Cree made a bucket to stop the Falcon run and a short time later hit a three pointer to make the score 26-20. The Falcons held a 28-22 edge at the half.

It took five minutes for the Oracles to regain the lead, 33-31, on a basket and free throw by Stauffer. The Oracles expanded the lead to, 40-33, before settling for a five point advantage, 42-37 at the end of three periods.

Jones hit a trey and Delphi was leading for good, 46-44, with less than four minutes remaining. Delphi’s defense allowed Frontier to score one point in the last 3:28 to preserve the win, 5247.

Stauffer led Delphi with 17. Also scoring were Cree with 10, Jones 8, Beach and Strasser 6 each, Hawn 4 and Schultz 1.

In the championship game the Oracles took a 2-0 lead, but the Cavaliers fought back to lead after one quarter, 10-5. TriCounty would steadily pull away until their lead was at 14, 21-7. Delphi finally woke up and scored seven in a row before the Cavaliers hit a three pointer to end the half and a 24-14 lead. Baskets by Katie Beach and Leah Cree cut the lead to six, 2418, to start the second half. This is when the wheels fell off for the Lady Oracles. The Cavaliers scored 26 points in seven minutes while the Oracles could manage just ten. It didn’t matter what kind of defense Delphi played, TriCounty had an answer for it. Going into the fourth quarter the Cavaliers’ lead was 50-28.

The Oracles played hard in the final period despite knowing the outcome of the game was already decided.

Stauffer scored 13 to lead Delphi with help from Cree with 11, Hawn 6, Jones 5, Beach, Schultz and Strasser, each had 2.

Cree and Stauffer made the alltournament team for Delphi along with Beth Distell of North White, Courtney Wesner of Frontier and Kayla Saucdeo, Ashley Altman, Arica Kyburz and Stephanie Dewitt of TriCounty.