By the time the final horn sounded to culminate her high school career Nov. 13, Avery Smith had only a small dot of clotted blood on the right side of her nose still hanging on – a huge difference compared to the bloody mess all over her face 45 minutes earlier.

“I made the mistake of bending down to block a shot on a girl with a massive drive, and her follow-through hit me in the face,” said the Southern Regional senior, who did her best to help thwart the scoring onslaught of Kingsway during…