On a night where West Limestone and East Limestone’s best players basically canceled each other out, it was up to the supporting cast to determine the game.

Fortunately for the Wildcats, Cassidy and Carlie Belle Winter came up huge, scoring a combined 33 points to lead West to a 48-35 victory over the Indians.

Cassidy Winter scored 21 points, with 17 of those coming in the first half as West Limestone built a 32-11 halftime lead. Carlie added 12 points of her own, which included five free throws late in the fourth quarter to seal the victory after East Limestone had cut the lead to nine points.

“I thought we played very well in the first half, and in the second half we just couldn’t get some shots to fall,” West Limestone coach Chasity Legg said. “But it was still a great team win.”

West Limestone’s Caroline Bachus and East Limestone’s Jirah Rogers are normally the focus for any opposing team, but with the two standouts going against each other, they held each other in check.

Rogers, who had scored 34 points in each of East Limestone’s previous two games, was held to just four points while Bachus scored 10 on three made field goals and three free throws.

But Cassidy Winter’s fast start set West Limestone on its winning way. She scored eight points in the first quarter and added nine more in the second, outscoring East Limestone’s entire team in both quarters.

Her scoring slowed down in the second half along with the rest of the team’s, but even her only basket of the second half was a big one, as she hit a 3-pointer at the third-quarter buzzer to give the Wildcats a 38-19 lead.

That turned out to be a big shot, as East Limestone finally got its offense going in the fourth quarter, scoring nearly as many points in the final quarter as it did the previous three.

Hailie Smith hit two 3-pointers for the Indians in the fourth quarter, and Mallory Jo Mitchell hit a basket to cut the lead to nine points with under 3 minutes remaining, but Carlie Belle Winter hit 5 of 6 free throws down the stretch to keep the Wildcats at bay.

Smith led East Limestone with 14 points while Mitchell had 10.

West Limestone is the No. 1 seed in the Limestone County Tournament, and will play either Tanner or Clements in the semifinal at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, while East Limestone is the No. 3 seed and will take on sixth-seeded Elkmont in the first round at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.

“I thought all the girls played well tonight against a good opponent,” Legg said. “We’re just looking forward to next week in the county tournament and hope to keep playing well there.”