Spotswood used a stingy defense and its well-balanced offensive attack to dispatch the Miller School 42-27 in the tournament’s title game on Tuesday night and stay unbeaten this year.

Maybe Covenant junior Sam Dale should have an off night more often.

The Black Knights exacted a little revenge in the fifth-place game of The Daily Progress NBC29 Holiday Classic, coming away with a 46-43 victory in the Patriots’ gym that wasn’t secure until the final moments.

Charlottesville escaped with a 65-61 victory to claim third place in The Daily Progress NBC29 Holiday Classic.

Patrick Henry showed no signs of fatigue after a late night on Monday as it put on a stellar offensive display and let its defense do the rest in a win over Orange County in the third-place game of The Daily Progress NBC29 Holiday Classic on Tuesday afternoon.

Buckingham was able to roll with the punches for the first quarter, but in the second and third quarters Albemarle flexed their muscle to move on to tonight’s championship game against Spotswood after dispatching the Knights 84-59.

While Charlottesville looked like a different team against Spotswood in the semifinals of The Daily Progress NBC29 Holiday Classic, the end result was the same — this time, a 48-47 loss.

Shalita Brown scored a game-high 30 points and pulled down 19 rebounds in leading Charlottesville to a 62-41 victory.

After falling to Orange County in the first round of The Daily Progress NBC29 Holiday Classic on Saturday, Albemarle looked to bounce back against Culpeper in its second game of the tournament.

Covenant got exactly what it wanted on the defensive end in the fourth quarter against Heritage-Lynchburg in the consolation bracket of The Daily Progress NBC29 Holiday Classic.

But the win didn’t come without a test from a pesky Hornets squad, which gave the Blazers all they could handle for three quarters before Spotswood pulled away to prevail 73-62.

Patrick Henry-Roanoke was the only team making noise on the court in a 53-29 rout of the Little Giants.

The Patriots (5-4) pressed the Little Giants (1-5) into submission, racking up 10 steals as a team in an 81-32 walkover in the first round of The Daily Progress NBC29 Holiday Classic.

The Group A Knights held off the hot-shooting Blue Devils and pulled out a 74-66 victory in the first round of the Daily Pro-gress NBC29 Holiday Classic by creating of-fense out of a solid defensive effort.

There was time left — 3.3 seconds, to be exact — and Green’s shot gave the Hornets the 52-51 victory as Albemarle’s Tamika Lewis missed on a 15-foot jumper as time expired.