Published on February 20, 2026 10:29 am
Last Updated on February 20, 2026 10:43 am
The National Trail Conference boasts two girls basketball regional champions and a new 1,000-point scorer after Thursday night’s Class 1A title games across the state.
Cumberland and Brownstown/St. Elmo had little trouble capturing their regional plaques as the Lady Pirates dispatched Martinsville 47-18 at the Casey-Westfield Regional and the Lady Bombers handled Dieterich 50-19 to secure the North Clay Regional.
Cumberland’s Jade Carr became her club’s third player this season to eclipse the 1,000-point threshold in the process of securing the program’s first sectional appearance since 2011, while BSE’s Dayana Haslett outscored the opposition all by her lonesome with 24 points en route to the a second consecutive regional title for her squad.
The other NTC team in action was Windsor/Stew-Stras; unfortunately the Lady Hatchets saw their campaign come to a close at the Mt. Pulaski Regional, where the host school — ranked fourth in the final Class 1A Associated Press poll — advanced by a 50-27 final.
Cumberland 47, Martinsville 18
The Lady Pirates (26-4) limited Martinsville to eight points in the first half and finally clicked offensively themselves in a 17-4 third quarter to run away with this regional championship game at Casey.
Jude Miller paced Cumberland with 17 points, but the big story of the night was Carr. The team’s only senior starter entered play just five points shy of 1,000 for her career and hit the mark with the front end of a 2-for-2 trip to the foul line in the second quarter. The Lake Land College commit ended up with 13 points on the night.
Alysa Dittamore also finished in double figures with 11; she and Miller both scored their 1,000th points during the Lady Pirates’ championship run at the NTC tournament in Beecher City.
Cumberland won its only other regional 15 years ago. That 18-10 team was the last above-.500 squad for the program until a more recent run of success that has now seen four winning seasons (including three 20-win campaigns) in the last five years under Sammi James and now first-year head coach Brandon Miller. According to IHSA’s website, 26 is also the program’s most wins in school history; the 2009-10 team went 25-5 under Roy Clapp.
Now it’s on to the Argenta-Oreana Sectional for the ninth-ranked team in Class 1A; the Lady Pirates will face Salt Fork (Catlin) in a 7:30 p.m. Tuesday semifinal. The other semifinal that night is at 6 p.m. between Mt. Pulaski and Tri-County, while the championship game is slated for 6 p.m. Thursday.
Class 1A Casey-Westfield Regional
Championship
Martinsville 3 5 5 6 — 18
Cumberland 10 12 17 8 — 47
Martinsville: Kannmacher 1-0 —2; Parcel 0-1 — 1; Craig 0-2 — 2; Hammond 0-0 — 0; Reed 0-0 — 0; Simons 1-0 — 3; Rankin 0-0 — 0; Wilhoit 2-2 — 7; Hammond 1-1 — 3. TOTALS 5 FG, 6 FT.
Cumberland: Leitch 0-0 — 0; Russell 0-0 — 0; Miller 3-8 — 17; Tolen 0-0 — 0; Carr 4-4 — 13; Jones 2-0 — 6; Miles 0-0 — 0; Richard 0-0 — 0; Dittamore 5-1 — 11. TOTALS 14 FG, 13 FT.
3-Point FG: Martinsville 2 (Simons, Wilhoit), Cumberland 6 (Miller 3, Carr, Jones 2).
Brownstown/St. Elmo 50, Dieterich 19
Make it two consecutive regional championships for the Lady Bombers in a game that was close for a quarter and didn’t get out of hand for Dieterich until a 26-6 second half spelled the end of a 21-win campaign for the Movin’ Maroons at North Clay High School in Louisville.
Haslett, the program’s all-team leading scorer and just 46 shy of 2,000 points as her junior season hits the postseason stretch, notched 13 of her game-high 24 tallies during the third quarter as BSE (29-3) turned an 11-point halftime lead into a 22-point advantage. Addie Sasse scored a bucket in each quarter for her eight points, while Danika Ramsey and Madi Miller checked in with seven apiece.
BSE’s only loss to a 1A team this season was Cumberland in the NTC tournament championship, while the Bombers defeated the Lady Pirates in regular season action as well as the title game at the Dieterich Holiday Tournament. Their other losses are Paris (a 2A regional champion) and Highland (a 3A regional finalist).
For Dieterich (21-10), 1,000-point scorer Addison Miller put together one last double-figure scoring performance with 12, including a trio of three-pointers.
Brownstown’s hopeful road toward a first-ever sectional title now heads to Wayne City, where the No. 7-ranked team in Class 1A will square off with either Christopher or Gallatin County in a 6 p.m. Tuesday semifinal. Those two clubs are playing a rare Friday night title game tonight at the Gallatin County Regional. The other Wayne City semifinal will be between Sesser-Valier and Edwards County, while the championship game happens Thursday at 6 p.m.
Class 1A North Clay Regional
Championship
Dieterich 9 4 5 1 — 19
BSE 10 14 16 10 — 50
Dieterich: L. Goebel 1-0 — 2; Iffert 0-0 — 0; Miller 4-1 — 12; Higgins 0-0 — 0; Ca. Faller 0-1 — 1; Russell 0-0 — 0; Cl. Faller 0-0 — 0; Stortzum 0-0 —0; Boerngen 0-0 — 0; Huber 2-0 — 4. TOTALS 7 FG, 2 FT.
Brownstown/St. Elmo: Williams 1-2 — 4; Sasse 4-0 —8; Ramsey 2-1 — 7; Logue 0-0 — 0; Claycomb 0-0 — 0; C. Haslett 0-0 — 0; Sefton 0-0 — 0; D. Haslett 8-3 — 24; Miller 3-1 — 7; Wollin 0-0 — 0. TOTALS 18 FG, 7 FT.
3-Point FG: Dieterich 3 (Miller 3), BSE 3 (Ramsey 2, D. Haslett 1).
Mt. Pulaski 50, Windsor/Stew-Stras 27
Kendra Hayes managed 12 points for the Lady Hatchets, but Windsor/Stew-Stras found itself doubled up 18-9 after one quarter with the fourth-ranked team in Class 1A and that margin grew by 10 more points by the time the combatants hit the halftime locker room.
Clarissa Johnson hit a pair of three pointers for WSS (14-14) while Claire Holland and Claire VonBehrens had four apiece. Hayes crossed 1,000 points earlier this season and will be back for a senior season; Holland graduates along with Cameron Carey and Lauren Longwell.
Mt. Pulaski got 16 points from leading scorer Addison Brown; the team also features 2,000-point scorer Alyson Murphy, who was quiet with just four points in the regional title game but will see her Lady Toppers advance to the Argenta-Oreana Sectional.
Class 1A Mt. Pulaski Regional
Championship
WSS 9 5 5 8 — 27
Mt. Pulaski 18 15 15 2 — 50
Windsor/Stew-Stras: Ault 0-0 — 0; Longwell 0-0 — 0; Carey 0-0 — 0; Rincker 0-0 — 0; Holland 2-0 — 4; Greuel 0-0 — 0; Hayes 3-5 — 12; Walker 0-1 — 1; Johnson 2-0 — 6; VonBehrens 1-2 — 4. TOTALS 8 FG, 8 FT.
Mt. Pulaski: Brown 6-0 — 16; Murphy 2-0 — 4; Elayna Marten 4-1 — 11; Elyssa Marten 0-0 — 0; Leonard 0-0 — 0; Smith 2-4 — 8; Cooper 1-3 — 5; Martin 3-0 — 6; Werts 0-0 — 0; Killion 0-0 — 0. TOTALS 18 FG, 8 FT.
3-Point FG: WSS 3 (Hayes, Johnson 2), Mt. Pulaski 6 (Brown 4, Elayna Marten 2).