Opening Week Noteworthy Performers

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>High school season has arrived! The season began this past week and there were several great individual performances.  Game of the week was Manchester vs. James River.  UNC commit [player_tooltip player_id='239496' first='Lanie' last='Grant'] had the performance of the week, scoring 43 points leading her team to a win against a talented Manchester squad.  Georgia signee [player_tooltip player_id='254975' first='Mia' last='Woolfolk'] was big for Manchester with an easy 22 points before some questionable calls took her out of the game in the fourth quarter.  There is a lot of talent in the State this year, each week we will be covering various games and players.  As always, if there are players we need to get out and see please let us know. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block 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