Lady Dragons fall to Bethlehem on last day of Gatlinburg tourney<\/p>\n
Published 4:42 pm Wednesday, December 31, 2025<\/p>\n
Harlan dropped two of three games in the Smoky Mountain Winter Classic at Gatlinburg, Tenn.
The Lady Dragons closed the tournament with a 54-32 loss to Bardstown Bethlehem on Wednesday.
Junior guard Kaylee McElroy led the 9-2 Banshees with 25 points.
Peyshaunce Wynn, a sophomore guard, led the 3-9 Lady Dragons with 16 points. Harlan played without senior guard Cheyenne Rhymer, their leading scorer in the two previous tournament games, due to illness.
Harlan returns to action Saturday in the 13th Region All \u201cA\u201d Classic at Lynn Camp in a 2 p.m. quarterfinal game against Middlesboro.
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Bardstown Bethlehem (54) \u2014 Kaylee McElroy 25, Sophia Miles 4, Kenlee Mouser 6, Evelyn Ehringer 7, Zoe Thurmond 7, Allie Greenwell 5.
Harlan (32) \u2014\u00a0Peyshaunce Wynn 16, Addison Campbell 8, Raegan Goodman 6, Addy Patton 2, Shelby Doan 0, Talae Taylor 0.<\/p>\n
Harlan 8 3 12 9 \u2014 32
Bethlehem 9 17 14 14 \u2014 54<\/p>\n
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Led by seven baskets and 15 points from senior guard Cheyenne Rhymer, Harlan jumped out to a 24-12 lead after one quarter on Monday in the Smoky Mountain Winter Classic in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and coasted to a 61-45 victory over Owsley County.
Rhymer finished with 37 points for the 3-7 Lady Dragons, who advance to the tournament semifinals on Tuesday. Rhymer and Addison Campbell each had two baskets in the second quarter as Harlan held a 37-27 lead at halftime. Rhymer added 13 points in the third period as the lead grew to 55-38.
Kamilla Marcum scored 18 points and Delaney Smith added 13 for the Lady Owls.
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Harlan (61) \u2014\u00a0Peyshaunce Wynn 8, Cheyenne RhymeTr 37, Addison Campbell 6, Raegan Goodman 6, Shelby Doan 2, Addy Patton 2, Clarissa Yost 0, Talae Taylor 0.
Owsley County (45) \u2014 Harley Dooley 0, Delaney Smith 13, Lauren Gay4, Kiley Taylor 5, Kamilla Marcum 18, Madi Cornett 5, Nala Pittman 0, Kierah Shouse 0.<\/p>\n
Owsley County 12 15 11 7 \u2014 45
Harlan 24 13 18 6 \u2014 61<\/p>\n
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Harlan fell 62-47 to Knoxville Central in the semifinals on Tuesday.
Cheyenne Rhymer was one of three Lady Dragons in double figures with 21 points. Peyshaunce Wynn and Raegan Goodman added 15 and 11 points, respectively.
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Knoxville Central (62) \u2014 T. Fowler 8, Moore 19, Littlejohn 2, Winton 3, Foster 16, Ramsey 5, Minor 4, Davis 5.
Harlan (47) \u2014 Peyshaunce Wynn 15, Cheyenne Rhymer 21, Raegan Goodman 11, Shelby Doan 0, Addison Campbell 0.<\/p>\n
Harlan 11 10 16 10 \u2014 47
Knoxville Central 16 21 5 20 \u2014 62<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lady Dragons fall to Bethlehem on last day of Gatlinburg tourney Published 4:42 pm Wednesday, December 31, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-75103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}