Loyd Cook Photo Bearettes junior Hillary Shaffer, right, fights for a loose ball during Brownsboro’s 62-31 win over the Athens Lady Hornets Friday in Brownsboro. The Brownsboro Bearettes continued District 20-3A on a winning note Friday, defeating the Athens Lady Hornets by 31 points in a game held at Brownsboro.

Brownsboro (22-4, 4-1) wasted no time in getting on top of Athens, scoring the first nine points of the game.

Guard LaQuesha Cooper broke a slow start by both teams, who opened the game without scoring for more than three minutes. Cooper dribbled the length of the court, then drove the lane to record the first bucket of the game.

Post Hillary Shaffer snagged an offensive rebound, putting it back up for the second Bearettes score. Cooper was fouled on the next Brownsboro possession and she made both free throws.

Synola Harmon capped the 9-0 opening Brownsboro run with a three-pointer from just to the left of the top of the arc.

Athens made two, single free throws wrapped around a Shaffer turnaround score in the paint.

Shaffer added three more free throws in the quarter, while Yniqua Mosley drove the baseline for a bucket, as the Bearettes finished the first quarter up 16-2.

The second quarter was more of the same. While the Lady Hornets managed to score six points in the period, all those points came from two, three-point shots as the Athens offense continued to have trouble with the Brownsboro defense on all other offensive possessions in the quarter.

The Bearettes managed 14 points in the second period of play. Cooper had six in the quarter, while Harmon and Chelsea Chambers each hit long-range threepointers.

Athens managed to score most of its points in the second half, notching 23 of what would be a 31 total points, as Brownsboro head coach Fred Griffin mixed and matched his lineup the rest of the way.

The Bearettes’ offense scored 30 in the first half, 32 points in the second, as it remained consistent.

Cooper led the Bearettes with 18 points and Shaffer added 14, while Harmon had 10.

Chambers and Mosely added five points each. Tiffany Hurd had four points, Lakeshia Johnson had three, Carley Smith had two and Desiree Johnson added one point.