Pioneer's Maya Richmond looks to shoot through Brighton's Courtney Murphy, Shelby Quinette and Natalie Peterson during the first half of Pioneer's 52-47 double-overtime win Monday.

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One game was all but over by halftime, the other took two overtimes to settle.

The Huron High School girls basketball team pulled away from Pinckney, 54-32, and Pioneer gritted out a 52-47 double-overtime win over Brighton Monday in the opening round of the Class A girls basketball district tournament at Pioneer High School.

Huron's Devin Talley is fouled by Pinckney's Megan Duke.

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Kamilah Carter led Pioneer's night-capping triumph with a game-high 23 points. However, her biggest play may have been a rebound.

Up by two points with 37 seconds left, Pioneer guard Brittany Kaplan missed two free throws and Carter muscled into the paint and grabbed the second miss. Pioneer ran 23 seconds off the clock before Megan Schechtman was fouled and hit a pair of free throws to make it a two-possession game.

Brighton never scored again.

“We just had to get the rebound,” said Carter, who added seven boards to her totals. “I fought in there to get it. We just couldn’t let (Brighton) get the ball back.”

Huron's Devin Talley scored 14 of her game-high 20 points in the second half. When Pinckney came out of halftime with six unanswered points in an attempt to climb back into the game, Talley countered with five straight points of her own, including a scoop shot and an old-fashioned three-point play.

“It was tremendous for (Talley) to come and put up points like she did today,” said Huron coach Steven Vinson. “In the second half, she kind of carried us.”

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