Girls’ Sweet Sixteen: Day 1 wrap-up from Rupp Arena
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2022 Girls’ Sweet 16 coverage
Click below to read all of the coverage from Kentucky.com and the Lexington Herald-Leader during the Girls’ Sweet 16 State Basketball Tournament in Rupp Arena.
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Four games were played Wednesday during the opening day of the 2022 Mingua Beef Jerky Girls’ Sweet 16 State Basketball Tournament in Rupp Arena.
Meade County, Bullitt East, Southwestern and Franklin County punched their tickets to Friday’s quarterfinals with first-round victories.
Four more first-round games are lined up for Thursday. Below is a recap of Wednesday’s events in Lexington.
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Wednesday’s first-round games
Game 1: Meade County 53, Boyd County 46 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 2: Bullitt East 67, Bethlehem 50 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 3: Southwestern 67, McCracken County 56 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 4: Franklin County 46, Henderson County 43 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Thursday’s first-round games
Game 5, 11 a.m.: Bowling Green (28-7) vs. Letcher County Central (26-9) | Live stats | Box score to come | Recap to come | Slideshow to come
Game 6, 1:30 p.m.: Pikeville (31-2) vs. Cooper (23-4) | Live stats | Box score to come | Recap to come | Slideshow to come
Game 7, 6 p.m.: Corbin (25-6) vs. Clark County (30.2) | Live stats | Box score to come | Recap to come | Slideshow to come
Game 8, 8:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart (32-3) vs. Anderson County (30-4) | Live stats | Box score to come | Recap to come | Slideshow to come
Our live coverage
Jared Peck (@HLpreps on Twitter), Josh Moore (@JoshMooreHL on Twitter) and Cameron Drummond (@cdrummond97 on Twitter) will be providing updates, highlights, analysis and more from Rupp Arena throughout the tournament. And check out photos from this week by Ryan C. Hermens (@ryanhermens), Silas Walker (@sigh_las) and our freelancers.
More Sweet 16
PREVIEW: A glance at every team and predictions for who could win it all
PREVIEW: Sixteen things to get you ready for the 2021 Girls’ Sweet 16
FEATURE: Franklin County’s Carter and Laster at heart of a champion.
PODCAST: Columnist John Clay and high school sports writer Jared Peck preview the Girls’ Sweet 16.
This story was originally published March 9, 2022 at 10:30 AM.
