CAMP POINT — Thursday night's showdown between Quincy Notre Dame and Central-Southeastern lacked the drama of previous meetings in the rivalry. There wasn't a buzzer-beating shot, individual heroics or a memorable play. Instead, the Lady Raiders started both halves strong and dominated the Lady Panthers for a 47-30 victory in the final pool-play game of the Lady Panther Classic. The win advances QND (15-0) to Saturday night's championship game at 7:30 p.m. The Lady Raiders will play West Hancock (16-4), which used a rebound putback by Marley Hall with five seconds left Thursday night to beat Havana 57-55. QND will also try to win its third championship at Central in four years. The Lady Raiders' other titles came in 2005 and 2007. QND scored the first nine points of the game. After C-SE cut the lead to four at halftime, the Lady Raiders opened the second half with a 10-3 run. "We knew we needed to establish ourselves early," Lady Raiders coach Eric Orne said. "Central made a run at us, but we made them expend a lot of energy doing that. "We put in a special 1-3-1 defense and that helped take them out of their rhythm." C-SE's 1-2 punch of Ali Schwagmeyer and Deandra Bockhold combined for 18 points and 19 rebounds, but QND was able to overcome that. "We worked a lot on boxing out in practice and that helped us against (Schwagmeyer and Bockhold)," Lady Raiders senior Renita Bunte said. "There were some rebounds we couldn't get, but we couldn't worry about that. We had to go after the ones we could get." A one-handed driving layup by Leigh McLaughlin midway through the third quarter stretched QND's lead to 35-22. It was McLaughlin's only field goal of the night but it made a difference. "That might've been the play of the game," Orne said. "We were able to get some isolations tonight and we did a good job of getting Leigh open for that shot." After that, C-SE (15-5) scored only two more baskets the rest of the game and finished with just 11 points in the second half. "We missed a lot of easy shots tonight and dug ourselves a big hole," said C-SE coach Matt Long, whose team shot 27 percent (11 of 41). "That's been our Achilles heel all year. We had some looks but couldn't get them to go." QND brought a little more energy to the game. "We knew (C-SE) would bring a lot of energy and we had to match that," said QND junior Chloe Barnes, who scored a game-high 14 points. "We focused on that. We wanted them to bring it on." West Hancock answered every big blow by Havana. The Titans rallied despite trailing by eight points late in the third quarter and allowing eight 3-pointers in the game. Havana's Macy Brown was fouled while driving to the basket with 16.3 seconds left. She made both free throws to tie the score 55-55. The ball wound up in Hall's hands and she started to drive the court. "I told Marley to call a timeout when she got to halfcourt," Titans coach Ken Schuster said. "But I decided that would be crazy because I didn't want (Havana coach Jerry Wilson) to draw something up to defend her. So I just let her go." It turned out to be a good decision. Hall drove through the lane, missed a layup from the left block, rebounded the ball on the right side and scored the game-winner. "She's going to attack the basket if she gets in that situation," Schuster said of Hall, who scored a game-high 24 points. "She's a sophomore and she drives me crazy sometimes. But she's good to have in that situation." —sports@whig.com/217-3365