Girls’ Sweet Sixteen: Day 2 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 first-round games were played Thursday during the second day of the 2022 Mingua Beef Jerky Girls’ Sweet 16 State Basketball Tournament in Rupp Arena.
Bowling Green, Cooper, Clark County and Sacred Heart punched their tickets to Friday’s quarterfinals with first-round victories, joining the four teams that won their openers Wednesday — Meade County, Bullitt East, Southwestern and Franklin County.
Four quarterfinal games are lined up for Friday. Below is a recap of Wednesday’s and Thursday’s events in Lexington.
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Thursday’s first-round games
Game 5: Bowling Green 58, Letcher County Central 45 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 6: Cooper 57, Pikeville 37 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 7: Clark County 42, Corbin 35 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 8: Sacred Heart 48, Anderson County 38 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
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
Friday’s quarterfinal games
Game 9: Southwestern 47, Franklin County 40 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 10: Bullitt East 62, Meade County 47 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 11: Cooper 55, Bowling Green 47 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 12: Sacred Heart 59, Clark County 40 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
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
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PREVIEW: A glance at every team and predictions for who could win it all
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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 10, 2022 at 10:55 AM.
