Early on in their game Tuesday, the Northside Lady Bears had a pair of interior baskets spin in and out of the cylinder.

It took a couple of shots from beyond the perimeter to really get the Lady Bears going.

Back-to-back 3-pointers from Tracey Bershers and Jazz Coleman started a run of 23 straight points. Northside rolled from there, picking up its eighth consecutive win by downing Little Rock Central, 56-26, in 6A-Central action Tuesday night at Kaundart-Grizzly Fieldhouse.

“Good win, good win,” Northside coach Rickey Smith said. “We missed a couple of shots early and Central was controlling the tempo, so we tried to speed it up a little bit.

“We would go down, get one shot and miss, and then they would dribble it real slow down the floor, pass, pass, pass. I looked up (at the scoreboard) and four minutes into the game it was a very slow tempo, but then boom, boom, boom, we hit a couple of shots and you saw us explode.”

Down 2-0 to the Lady Tigers (4-7, 0-2) and having already missed some easy shots, the Lady Bears (13-3, 2-0) finally got some shots to fall.

Did they ever.

Bershers and Coleman’s treys put Northside up 6-2. Then, senior guard Eriel West fed sophomore forward Haitianna Releford inside for a basket, and West followed with a short jumper of her own to push the lead to 10-2.