Lack of effort the downfall for Benjamin Russell

What started so well did not end nearly as nicely for Benjamin Russell’s girls basketball team on Friday night in a Class 6A Area 6 game against Russell County. 

The Wildcats came out with a fire under them and scored the game’s first seven points, doing so in less than two minutes. But after that, it was like all the fire left their bellies. Benjamin Russell started to get lackadaisical and turned the ball over left and run. It scored just 32 points through the final 46 minutes of the game and Russell County walked away a 64-45 victor.