Ridgeway girls rally to win in Turkey Jamm

Ridgeway girls 61, Forest Park-Ga. 56

When Steve Cole and his Forest Park-Ga. players boarded a charter bus Friday at approximately 6 a.m. and made the six-hour trip to Memphis for the Tennessee Turkey Jamm tournament, Cole admittedly did not know much about his opponent — Ridgeway.

“I didn’t really hear that much,” Cole said. “I just knew about the one (Hasina Muhammad) who signed with Auburn, No. 11. We came into this game kind of blind.”

For a while, particularly during the opening 4:15 of the fourth period, Georgia’s No. 2-ranked team in Class 4A appeared destined to send the Lady Roadrunners to their first setback of the season after using a 6-0 run to build its largest lead of the game at eight points. On the flip side, that seemed to be just the adversity Ridgeway would need to produce the game’s turning point.

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