Closing 2016 with Wins

Highlands basketball teams record victories

PHOTO: Allen Ramsey, DWCPhoto.com. Highlands sophomore Morgan Coffey goes in for a score in a recent game.

The Highlands Ladybirds basketball team showed why it is a team Friday in the La Rosa's Holiday Classic at Conner.

Sophomore Zoie Barth did not play because of sickness. But her teammates picked up the slack recording 17 steals on their way to a 73-29 demolition of the Lexington Lafayette Generals (8-4) to take third place in the tournament. Highlands (9-3) forced 24 turnovers and committed just 10 on four Lafayette steals.