ND DUO EARNS 2A ALL-STATE

Notre Dame's inside-outside junior duo of Lisa Millham and Deana McCormick were named to the Class 2A basketball all-state first and second team, respectively.

Bell City's Eric Henry was named to the second team in Class 1A.

The 3A-4A team will be released Thursday.

Millham (5-foot-10) and McCormick (6-0) were part of the Lady Bulldog team which took second at state.

Millham, who repeated on the first team, finished the year at 14.6 points per contest. She set a school record with 88 3-pointers. She also averaged three rebounds and three assists per game.

"Lisa was our outside presence," said Notre Dame coach Jerry Grim. "She shot better from 3-point range than 2-point. I think she's a leader on the floor. She's a leader by her hard work. Normally, she's one of the last out of the gym and she's a good kid."

McCormick, already a 1,000-point career scorer, led Notre Dame with 15.7 points, 8.2 rebounds per game and a 72 percent free-throw average. McCormick shot almost three times as many free throws as any other member on her team.

"There was not a post player we played who could really handle her," Grim said. "Even the kids who were bigger than she was couldn't handle her. The moves she's got inside are very smooth. She's strong enough to play with some of the biggest kids. Once she got the ball in there, no one could really stop her from scoring. She's another kid who you have to run out of the gym. She devotes a lot of time to her basketball."

Henry, just a sophomore, scored 19 points and pulled down nine rebounds per game for the much-improved Bell City Cubs, but perhaps his most impressive stat was his 110 steals (4.1 per game).

Other players of regional interest who made the all-state team in Class 2A included Norman Prather (6-foot-3, sr.), a first-team selection from Caruthersville; and Portageville's Roy Booker (6-0, sr.), who was named to the second team.

In 1A, Richland's Sherome Cole and South Iron's Matt Davis (6-3, jr.) were named to the second team. On the girls' side, Krystal Bennett, a 5-10 senior, made the first team from Couch.