BANGOR – Shead High School of Eastport junior guard Samantha Davis said her team’s stay at the Eastern Maine Class D schoolgirl basketball tournament was too short last season.

The Tigerettes lost to Van Buren in the quarterfinals.

“We wanted more than one game this year. We were ready,” said Davis after leading her fourth-seeded Tigerettes to a 53-38 triumph over No. 5 Limestone in their Class D quarterfinal Monday morning at the Bangor Auditorium.

Shead and top seed Woodland will square off in Thursday’s 2:05 semifinal. Both are 15-5.

Samantha Davis, the daughter of Shead coach Bob Davis, scored a game-high 25 points, grabbed six rebounds, made five steals and dished out four assists for the Tigerettes.

“She is very tough,” said Limestone coach Bob Hancock. “In the first half, we were half a step away from containing her better. Everything she put up off the drive seemed to go today. They played really well and we didn’t quite get it done.”

Davis used her quickness and explosive first step to beat defenders.

She had nine points to highlight a 13-4 spurt that closed out the first half and gave Shead a 31-23 halftime lead.

Limestone opened the second half with a 6-2 run but the Tigerettes answered with a decisive 10-1 rally spanning the third and fourth quarters.

Vanessa McPhail hit three jumpers, including two off Davis feeds, and Davis connected for the other two baskets.

“They’d try to help out on Sammy and that would leave me wide open,” said McPhail, who finished with eight points, all in the second half.

The Tigerettes also did an exceptional job in their 2-3 zone, limiting the Eagles to a 20.6 percent shooting performance, including 11.4 percent in the second half.

“Our game is defense and we played pretty good defense today,” said Davis, whose team went 23-for-46 from the floor.

Hancock said, “We didn’t get the ball into the post enough. They were denying that pretty well. And they got their shooters the ball.”

Kristen Beaulieu had 10 points for Shead despite foul trouble and Apryl Stubbs finished with eight rebounds.

Ashley Brooker’s 16 points, five rebounds and three steals, Nikki Michaud’s 11 points and Traci Weatherhead’s eight rebounds and two steals topped 17-3 Limestone.

TIGERETTES 53, EAGLES 38

Limestone (17-3) Shead (15-5)

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

Stackhouse 2 5 0 0 4 McPhail 4 5 8

St. Pierre 1 8 0 0 2 Richardson 0 0

Brooker 5 25 4 8 16 Davis 10 21 25

Michaud 5 11 1 1 11 Stubbs 2 4 4

T. Wea’head 0 5 1 5 1 K. Beaulieu 4 10

Redmond 1 2 2 3 4 Bowen 2 5 4

Beaton 0 5 0 0 0 Cook 1 3 2

Porter 0 0 0 0 0 V. Bouchard 0 0

L. Beaulieu 0 3 0 0 0 Constant 0 0

Ryder 0 0 0 0 0 Cox 0 0 0

A. Wea’head 0 2 0 0 0 Pottle 0 0 0

Hancock 0 0 0 0 0 Martinez 0 0

Mulherin 0 1 0 0 0 Cummings 0 0

O’Neal 0 0 0 0 0 Ricker 0 0 0

Page 0 1 0 0 0

Totals 14 68 8 17 38 Totals 23 46 10 53

Limestone 12 23 30 38

Shead 14 31 39 53

3-pt. goals ? Limestone 2-19: Brooker 2-11, St. Pierre 0-4, L. Beaulieu 0-2, Beaton 0-1, T. Weatherhead 0-1; Shead 1-4: Davis 1-4