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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 quarterfinal games were played Friday during the third day of the 2022 Mingua Beef Jerky Girls’ Sweet 16 State Basketball Tournament in Rupp Arena.
Southwestern, Bullitt East, Cooper and Sacred Heart earned their spots in Saturday morning’s semifinals with quarterfinal victories, sending home Franklin County, Meade County, Bowling Green and Clark County, respectively.
Two semifinal games are lined up for Saturday morning, with the championship set for Saturday night. Below is a recap of all the action so far in Lexington.
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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
Saturday’s semifinals and finals
Game 13: Bullitt East 66, Southwestern 42 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 14: Sacred Heart 50, Cooper 29 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
Game 15: Championship: Sacred Heart 64, Bullitt East 46 | Box score | Recap | Slideshow
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
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.
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PODCAST: Columnist John Clay and high school sports writer Jared Peck preview the Girls’ Sweet 16.
This story was originally published March 11, 2022 at 10:30 AM.
