Southeast Missourian athlete of the week: Scott City's Katie Hogan

Katie Hogan's ability to score around the basket and from outside proved too much in the Scott-Mississippi Conference girls basketball tournament.

Hogan scored 34 points to lead Scott City past Delta 56-51 in the championship game.

"We worked the ball around a lot, quickly around the outside," Hogan said. "I'd just move block to block and a lot of times they would get caught up in the 3-point line and guarding the ball and I'd get left one-on-one, and I took advantage of it."

The senior forward was 12 of 14 from inside the 3-point arc and 2 of 4 from beyond it. She also added a perfect 4 of 4 from the free-throw line.

"I never told any of my other girls that they had to get the ball into her," Scott City coach Ricky Keller said about Hogan. "But they knew deep down that's where it needed to go, and they found a way to get the ball to her in the right times."

Hogan scored 24 points in the Rams' 71-59 semifinal win over Charleston. She hit three 3-pointers in that win.

Hogan also scored six points, all on 3-pointers, in the Rams' 59-30 regular-season win over Kelly on Monday. That moved the Rams to 7-7 this season.