Huron High School's defensive game plan was simple: Shadow North Farmington's Jenna Bachouche at all times.

Bachouche, who'll play at Oakland University next year, is a 6-foot-4 lefty possessing the body of a power forward and skill-set of a point guard -- quite a nightmare for the oppostition.

"Once she caught the ball, we wanted to double-team her," said Huron senior guard DeVonyea Johnson. "So that was our game plan. And to get her frustated, and attack her to get her in foul trouble."

Done and done.

The River Rats double- and sometimes triple-teamed Bachouche all game, holding her to five second-half points while drawing her into four fouls, helping Huron secure a 48-37 win in a Class A regional semifinal Tuesday at Pioneer High School.

Huron plays No. 5-ranked Canton (22-1) in a regional title game at 7 p.m. Thursday at Pioneer. Canton advanced with a 58-34 win over Hartland in Tuesday's second semifinal.

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"That kid's really good. She's strong, she's physical," Huron coach Steve Vinson said of Bachouche, who still managed to score a game-high 14 points.

"And when she caught it I wanted to put two bodies on her before she shot it. I think we slowed her down enough."

After Huron jumped out to a 7-0 lead -- initiated by a Charlise Slater 3-pointer, Bachouche nearly single-handedly brought Farmington back, netting five points to ignite the Raiders' countering 8-0 run to end the quarter.

But the Rats came out firing in the second, spearheaded by back-to-back threes from Brionna Kilgore and Johnson. After Bachouche answered with a layup, Johnson added another triple at 5 minutes, 25 seconds, putting Huron on a 9-2 run to lead 16-10.

Huron kept the pace the rest of the half, capped by a Slater three-ball with 25.7 seconds on the clock, giving her squad a 23-17 half-time cushion.

"I was hoping to get something going for my team. I knew that I had to step up," said Slater, who finished with a team-high 12 points.

Huron piled on its lead in the third, and after Yonica Dupree rose for back-to-back layups on back-door feeds from Johnson, the River Rats had the first double-digit lead of the game, 31-21, with under three minutes to play in the third.

"We were being patient on offense with their 2-2-1 press. And just really being smart," said Johnson.

Added Vinson, "We had to get someone in the middle making the decisions, and Devonyea did a fantastic job making great decisions. And Dupree played fantastic. She held her composure, she made shots."

The Raiders chopped the lead to four upon a Stevie Jones three-point play, but Huron -- with less than two seconds left in the third -- orchestrated a textbook in-bounds play under the basket, yielding an uncontested layup from Kelcy Barrott at the buzzer to keep the lead at six.

Barrott went on to score five or her team's first seven points in the fourth; her layup at 5:22 stretched the lead back to 10 at 40-30. And the River Rats never let the Raiders get closer than six the rest of the way.

"We were staying positive with each other," Johnson said of Huron's fourth-quarter play. "Just because we had a lead we didn't want to stall or settle down. We had to stay positive and aggressive."

"We just had to make the decisions," added Vinson. "You have to be strong with the ball. We hit enough to keep that cushion."

Kaleb Roedel is a sports writer for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at (734)623-2562 and e-mailed at kalebroedel@annarbor.com. Follow him on Twitter @Kaleb_R.