After a sluggish first-half, the West Plains Lady Zizzers woke up and ran away from the Aurora Lady Houn's, thus advancing to the Class 4 District 11 championship game and a rematch of last year's championship game with Republic, a game the Lady Zizzers won with a last-second shot. West Plains won this semi-final over the Lady Houn's 50-30.

The Lady Zizzers led 7-2 early on five points from leading scorer Kelli Bowen, but Aurora's Baylee Hilton made it 7-5 with a 3-pointer at the 3-minute mark. By the end of the first, West Plains led by two, 9-7.

Aurora claimed its first lead at 11-9 at the 2:45 mark of the second quarter on a layup by Shania Siegrist. The Lady Zizzers managed just three points in the second quarter and Aurora led at the half, as just 25 total points were scored in the first half, 13-12.

"We were definitely sluggish," said West Plains head coach Scott Womack. "You always have that fear when they (Aurora) have played a game in the district tournament already and we haven't. We had to get our feet wet and find some sort of rhythm."

West Plains found its rhythm in the second half, while Aurora never did. Bowen scored the first six points of the second half to put the Lady Zizzers up 18-13. That 6-0 run quickly turned into a a 12-3 run and West Plains never looked back.

"We started to hit some shots," said Womack. "It's that simple. We started doing what we do and then that gave us the advantage we were looking for."

Aurora head coach Kevin Besch saw the writing on the proverbial wall, as well.

"Too many turnovers cost us the game" he said. "The effort was there but we can't turn it over that many times."

Bowen finished the third quarter with eight points and the Lady Zizzers lead was 15, 36-21.

West Plains outscored Aurora 14-9 in the final stanza and won the contest 50-30.

Bowen led all scorers with 17 points. Cassidy Johnson added 10 for West Plains.

Aurora was led by Rachel Parkers 9 points.

Aurora -- 7 6 8 9 -- 30
West Plains -- 9 3 24 14 -- 50

Aurora -- Rachel Parker 9, Baylee Hilton 6, Lakin Waggoner 5, Jorday Hall 4, Erica Tucker 2, Shania Siegrist 2, Katie Juracek 2
West Plains -- Kelli Bowen 17, Cassidy Johnson 10, Bre Harris 6, Payton Richards 5, Shelby Akllin 4, Rachel Coursey 4, Kendra Warren 2, Abee Shelton 2