Here’s the 2018 Lexington All-City girls’ basketball team

Mashayla Cecil is the 2018 Lexington Girls’ Basketball Player of the Year.

Cecil, who was named 11th Region Player of the Year and led Paul Laurence Dunbar to the 11th Region Tournament semifinals, received eight of a possible nine first-place votes. Cecil averaged 24 points and 3.5 rebounds during her senior season, in which she became the all-time leading girls’ scorer in Fayette County Public School history.

Caroline Bennett finished second in the voting. Bennett, who scored more than 1,000 points in her career, played in four 11th Region Tournaments for Lafayette. She shot nearly 40 percent from the three-point line as a senior.

Kiya Thompson, a junior who led Henry Clay at 13.4 points per game, finished third overall. Destyne Jackson, a junior who averaged a city-best 26 points per game for Frederick Douglass, and Terri Abram, a senior who averaged 11.9 points at Lafayette, rounded out this year’s First Team selections.

Jay Ballard, a junior at Lexington Catholic, led the Second Team vote-getters. Kyrah Hardin (Bryan Station), Elise Ellison-Coons (Paul Laurence Dunbar), Dee Dee Wheeler (Sayre) and KeLynn Clay (Bryan Station) were also named to the Second Team. Wheeler received a first-place vote and Ellison-Coons, a freshman, was the only non-junior or non-senior named on a ballot this year.

About the vote: The nine KHSAA girls’ basketball coaches in Lexington were asked during the postseason to nominate players from their own team for All-City consideration. Later in the postseason the coaches were asked to rank, 1-10, their top players from that list of nominees (they were permitted to vote for their own players). Point values were assigned to each voting position (10 points for first-place votes, nine points for second-place votes, etc.) and the accumulation of those points was used to create the first and second teams.

First Team

Second Team

Honorable mention

(All others who received votes, listed in alphabetical order)

This story was originally published March 26, 2018 at 9:48 AM with the headline "Here’s the 2018 Lexington All-City girls’ basketball team."