On the strength of 12 steals, the Sacred Heart girls basketball team knocked off Windsor 38-35 to win the W-K Kaysinger Conference Tournament on Friday at the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Center.
Windsor had a chance to tie or take the lead in the final seconds before Gabbi Ebers stepped in front of a pass with four seconds left, clinching the No. 6 Gremlins’ upset of the top-seeded, regular-season champion Greyhounds. Sacred Heart knocked off the top three seeds — Green Ridge, Stover and Windsor — en route to the title.
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