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Clearwater drills Boca Ciega 71-16

ST. PETERSBURG -- Who needs Boca Ciega's Kelcie Rogiers-Jensen or Clearwater's Dominique Redding playing in the championship game of a big-name tournament when you have Anisha Turman?

Not the Hooter's Holiday Classic, which got a stinker of a final but a classic feel-good moment when Turman, a 5-foot-4 junior, scored her first basket of the season.

The Tornadoes didn't need it, really, because they completely demolished Boca Ciega 71-16, but it provided one of the few stand-and-cheer moments for the Tornado faithful and bench.

Turman's layup was two of 28 straight points scored by Clearwater to close out its victory, shutting out Bogie in the fourth quarter.

Now 14-0 and ranked No. 2 in Class 5A, Clearwater won its second straight Hooters title. It never trailed and held the Pirates to one Rogiers-Jensen basket in the second half, outscoring Bogie 37-2.

Counting a pair of 3-pointers by tourney MVP Kasie Muchler and a basket by Nicole Ryan right before halftime, the Tornadoes ended the game with a 45-2 run.

The Pirates (10-3) missed their last 19 attempts from the field and shot just 4 percent in the second half on 1-of-26 shooting. Jensen scored eight of her team's points, but was stripped of all-tournament honors by officials after she left the floor before the postgame presentation.

Nine different Tornadoes scored, led by Redding's 21 points and six blocked shots.

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