Battle of the State Invitational: More than Points 2022

<p class="p1">The Battle of the State Invitational was held on Saturday.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Here are some of the players who were showing off their talents in more than one stat category.</p> <p class="p1"><b><a href="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/01/Alanis-Diaz-scaled-crop-1920x1261-1641864834.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-374372 alignleft" src="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/01/Alanis-Diaz-scaled-crop-1920x1261-1641864834-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="197" /></a>Alanis Diaz | Charlotte Catholic | G</b></p> <p class="p1">9 points - 4 rebounds - 5 assists - 3 steals</p> <p class="p1">Diaz contributes in all areas of the game.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Her specialty this game was grabbing steals and pushing them right up the court to score herself or find another teammate cutting to the basket for their own points.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She does well moving herself to make sure she can get the best pass to her teammates.</p> <p class="p1"><b>[player_tooltip player_id="116901" first="Raven" last="Preston"] | Quality Education Academy | G</b></p> <p class="p1">11 points - 17 rebounds - 10 assists - 1steal</p> <p class="p1">Preston (pictured above) continues to show why she is a future Division I athlete at Elon.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She fills her various roles with high efficiency crashing the boards for rebounds when she needs to and filling the lane when she doesn’t need to handle the ball.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She pushes the ball up the court and finds her open teammates for their own points as she draws the opponents towards her.</p> <p class="p1"><b><a href="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/01/Chloe-Richmond-scaled-crop-1920x1261-1641864903.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-374376 alignleft" src="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/01/Chloe-Richmond-scaled-crop-1920x1261-1641864903-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="197" /></a>[player_tooltip player_id="285926" first="Chloe" last="Richmond"] | Southern Durham | G</b></p> <p class="p1">11 points - 3 rebounds - 1 assist - 5 steals</p> <p class="p1">Richmond was great on the press for her team knocking the ball away and grabbing steals to push right up the court for some points.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She did well drawing her defenders to her to open up the lane for her teammates to score their own points.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She has a nice floater she uses to score up and over her defenders.</p> <p class="p1"><b><a href="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/01/Kennedy-Powell-scaled-crop-1920x1261-1641864950.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-374378 alignleft" src="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/01/Kennedy-Powell-scaled-crop-1920x1261-1641864950-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="197" /></a>[player_tooltip player_id="219899" first="Kennedy" last="Powell"] | High Point Christian | SF</b></p> <p class="p1">8 points - 6 rebounds - 2 assists - 1 steal</p> <p class="p1">Powell is strong inside using her height to grab the entry pass and score.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She didn’t shy away from contact, and she can convert well from the free throw line.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She showed off a nice spin move in the paint battling through contact for some points.</p>