The first time Sunshine and Keith played this season, the Tigers made 10 three-pointers and stunned the Bears in a one-point win in Orrville.

Keith repaid the favor Thursday night, running all over Sunshine for a 66-40 win that clinched class 1A, area 5. Sunshine made only three three-pointers the entire game and had no answer for Keith’s Harriet Winchester, who scored 22 of her 31 points in the second half.

“We played a lot more together,” Keith head coach Cecil Williams said. “We passed the ball a lot more and got everybody more involved.”

Zykia Pettway added 16 points for the Lady Bears and Shatavia Moore had 10 points.

The win locked up Keith’s fourth consecutive area title.

The previous three times the Lady Bears won the regular season area championship, they went on to win the corresponding area tournament title too.

Williams hopes that is again the case this year. Keith will face county rival Ellwood Christian in the first round of the tournament, although the game’s date and time are not yet set.

“We get to play in front of our home crowd where we are comfortable at,” Williams said. “That’s the main thing — being able to play at home.”