A weekend for the Lady Panthers

Jefferson High’s boys’ basketball hit the COVID-19 wall last weekend: With both varsity and JV teams in quarantine, games against Whitehall and Manhattan were postponed to next month.

So it was a ladies’ weekend — and the Panthers hit their own wall, dropping a conference match-up Friday with a strong Whitehall team, 71-58.

Jefferson took an early lead against their in-county rival: Rachel Van Blaricom hit a three, Cia Stuber added a basket, and the Panthers held onto a 9-8 edge midway through the first quarter. But then, the shots stopped dropping, and the Lady Trojans got hot, closing out the period with a 15-2 run to take a 23-11 lead.