The Oklahoma high school basketball Class 2A girls state tournament continued Friday with the semifinals at State Fair Arena . Here's a look at what happened.

The way Dalante Redway sees it, the Hartshorne bandwagon can gobble up as much territory surrounding McAlester as it desires.

“In the McAlester area, if you live close,” the Lady Miners coach said, “we’re all considered from the same town.”

It might be the best way to explain how a town of nearly 2,000 people about two-and-a-half hours southeast of OKC swarmed to State Fair Arena to “bring the noise” for a team inching its way toward a first state title.

The Hartshorne faithful packed plenty of noise for the trip.

Now, Tori Kilburn and the third-ranked Lady Miners are ready to silence any doubters after their 53-46 win over second-ranked Pocola in the Class 2A semifinals Friday night at State Fair Arena.

Hartshorne arrived Thursday night having only one win in school history in the state tournament. Two days and two wins later, the Lady Miners are going to play for their first girls basketball championship.

Harthorne (28-1) will face Oklahoma Bible Academy at 6:45 p.m. Saturday at State Fair Arena.

To reach the finals, the Lady Miners had to win the rubber match against Pocola (24-3) and senior forward Allyssa Parker.

Parker, an OU softball signee and The Oklahoman’s All-State Player of the Year last fall, gave Harthorne fits one night after scoring 37 points in a quarterfinal win.

“If I'm being honest, I can't really contain Allyssa,” Kilburn said. “She's too much of an athlete.”

Parker had 24 points on 8-for-10 shooting from the field and 8-for-14 from the free-throw line.

“OU might need to call her about basketball, too,” Redman said. “The Sooners could use her."

It took a barrage of traps, sometimes even triple-teaming the senior forward to throw a wrench into Pocola’s offense.

“Slowing Allyssa Parker down is 20 points,” Redway said. “We knew if we could contain her, hold her below 30, we’d have a good chance to win.”

Hartshorne held the Parker’s teammates to 8-for-30 shooting and outrebounded Pocola 29-22.

Led by five seniors, Hartshorne delivered balance in the semifinals — getting 19 points from Kilburn, 13 from Katie Allen and 10 from Ti Davis.

“So, we got good chemistry,” said Kilburn, a senior forward.

They’re not bad in history, either, having learned from their only loss of the season — falling 68-60 to Pocola on Jan. 17 — to win the final two showdowns.

Redway was already planning for a late night of more studying with OBA on deck in Saturday’s final.

“We know we’re going to have to execute at a high level,” he said, “because we’re going to have to fight for it.”

Lilyan Walden isn’t always Oklahoma Bible Academy’s go-to threat offensively.

But Walden, a senior, has proved something during her time with the Trojans.

When she's on, Walden is beyond difficult to stop.

“If I see the first one go in, that bucket gets pretty big and my teammates find me,” she said.

That’s what happened in the semifinals Friday.

Walden got into a groove and went on to score 24 points, leading Class 2A fifth-ranked OBA to a 58-47 win over No. 1 Dale at State Fair Arena.

Walden was efficient as she hit 6 of 8 shots from the field, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range. She was also nearly perfect from the free-throw line, hitting 7 of 8 attempts.

“Lilyan has spurtability I think is the word,” OBA coach Randy Roth said. “She came in on a mission. And when she gets into that rhythm, it’s hard to stop her. And she had that rhythm early on.”

OBA (32-1) led 23-21 at halftime and outscored Dale (28-3) by two in the third before pulling away in the fourth.

Walden was the main star, but it was a team effort for OBA as four girls scored in double figures.

Conley Cayot had 12, while Karson Jenkins had 11 and Kami Jenkins had 10.

Skylar Anderson and Danika Pendley led Dale. Anderson had a team-high 17 points and eight rebounds, and Pendley had 14 points.

For Roth, ball control played a crucial role in OBA’s victory.

“Not turning the ball over, trying to take care of the ball, find gaps in their defense and making good passes,” he said.

Both OBA and Dale made it to title games last year.

OBA, which won its lone state championship in 1971, was in Class A last season and lost to Seiling 64-46 in the title game.

The transition to Class 2A wasn’t necessarily easy, but OBA hasn't slowed down.

“It’s really difficult,” Roth said. “There was a mental block early in the year because we lost in the finals last year, but we got moved up anyway. The girls really wanted to play Seiling again. There’s a little bit of a grudge there. We weren’t going to get to do that. There was a little bit of a hurdle to overcome.”

OBA’s lone loss this season was against Hooker at regionals as the Trojans fell 34-33.

They had a close battle in the quarterfinals Thursday against sixth-ranked Latta and escaped with a 41-40 win.

Walden had six points in that matchup and knew she could play a bigger offensive role Friday.

“Going back over yesterday, I didn’t really score,” Walden said. “I put my team in a bad spot, but I knew today it being Dale, No. 1, that’s a big thing.”