Lakeland Fl- It was a great run for the Lady Spartans girls basketball team, as St. Johns Country Day advanced to the FHSAA State Semifinals Wednesday. St. Johns Country Day would face Faith Christian in their Final 4 contest. They would come up short falling 77-65 in the game, however their stand-out Senior Taliah Scott would put up a near record breaking perofrmance in the Final 4.
Scott would score seemingly at will, from all over the court on her way to a 47-point performance. Faith Christian’s Holland Harris led her team with 35-points, as both players dueled back and forth. Already the focus of Faith Christian’s defense, the Scott would still score over half of her team’s 65 points dazzling the crowd.
Scott currently averages 37.3 points per game for St John’s Country Day. Leading Florida in the category, and second in the nation. She also was the leading scorer in Florida this past year. She eclipsed that average in her final high school game in the Final 4. Her shining achievement was being selected as a 2023 Mc Donald’s All-American, becoming only the fourth girls basketball player to earn the honor from Northeast Florida.
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St. Johns Country Day got a huge boost from the junior transfer who is one of the best players in the nation. Her scoring lifted a team with talented players already like Junior Mary Kate Kent who averaged 13.9 ppg, and Kendall Proffitt (6.4ppg) who is just a 7th grader.
Coach Yolanda Bronston did a masterful job navigating St. John’s Country Day to their first Regional Championship since 1986. She’ll have several starters returning to make another run at a title next year.
