Lady Knights get big league win

By ROB HAMILTON

North­mor moved into sole pos­ses­sion of sec­ond place in the Mid-Ohio Ath­letic Conference’s Blue Divi­sion with a 55–40 win over High­land Saturday.

The Knights now are 3–4 in league play, putting them one game in front of both Card­ing­ton and Pleas­ant. Ridgedale leads the Blue with a per­fect 5–0 record.

North­mor used a strong fourth quar­ter to claim the home win over the Scots. After the two teams com­bined for only six points in the first quar­ter (with the Knights up 4–2), High­land got within an 18–17 mar­gin by the half.

Both teams scored 13 in the third quar­ter, but North­mor outscored their oppo­nents 24–10 over the final eight min­utes to pull away for the win.

Allie Tupps led North­mor with 18 points, while Kyn­dall Williams added 13 and both Shel­bie Wise­man and Chantel Cline con­tributed eight.

Katie Davies and Abby Gar­cia both fin­ished with eight to lead the Scots, while Addie Franklin scored eight.

Ear­lier, on Thurs­day, Dec. 27, the Knights took a non-league win at Mans­field Chris­t­ian by a 50–25 margin.

The score was close after eight min­utes of play, with North­mor up 10–8, but the Knights stretched their advan­tage every period.

The score was 22–14 by the half. In the sec­ond half, North­mor took the third quar­ter by a 16–4 mar­gin and the fourth by a 12–7 score to fin­ish with a 25-point win.

Tupps scored 16 to lead North­mor and Cline fin­ished with 10.

Two days later, the Knights got off to a slow start at home against Mans­field St. Peter’s and couldn’t recover in suf­fer­ing a 54–41 loss.

The Spar­tans jumped out to a 15–6 lead in the open­ing stanza. While the Knights got within a 25–18 mar­gin at the half, St. Peter’s would shut the door on their come­back bid after the intermission.

North­mor was outscored 14–12 in the third quar­ter and 15–11 in the fourth, as their oppo­nents picked up the road win.

Williams led the Knights with 13 points, while Tay­lor Shirley added nine and both Wise­man and Cline tal­lied eight.

The Lady Knights lost to Pleas­ant by a 34–29 mar­gin last Thurs­day, as they strug­gled to put points on the board in the early going.

North­mor led 5–3 after eight min­utes, but was outscored 12–3 in the sec­ond quar­ter to fall behind by seven. Pleas­ant added four more points to their advan­tage in the third quarter.

While the Knights took the fourth by a 13–7 mar­gin, they would not be able to make up the com­plete deficit.

Wise­man, Cline and Brie Heminger all scored six points.

Card­ing­ton Pirates

Card­ing­ton picked up their sec­ond league win of the sea­son last Thurs­day with a 36–32 win at Mount Gilead.

The Indi­ans got off to a fast start and led 12–9 after the first quar­ter. How­ever, the Pirates closed within a 14–13 mar­gin by the half and surged ahead by four points in the third quarter.

Both teams would score 10 points down the stretch, allow­ing the Pirates to go home with the win.

Clar­isa Lyons led the win­ners with 12 points, while Kait­lyn Kavanaugh added 10 points and a whop­ping 20 rebounds and Haley Foltz fin­ished with nine.

Shelby Rizor topped Mount Gilead with a 16-point effort.

That win was sand­wiched between a pair of defeats. On Thurs­day, Dec. 27, Galion outscored the Pirates in every quar­ter in tak­ing a 78–33 win.

The Tigers led 16–9 after the first quar­ter and stretched their advan­tage to a 36–20 mar­gin by the half. Galion then outscored Card­ing­ton 17–9 in the third quar­ter and 25–4 in the fourth to con­tinue adding to their mar­gin of victory.

Lyons fin­ished with 11 points to lead Cardington.

Last Sat­ur­day saw Buck­eye Val­ley get off to a fast start in top­ping Card­ing­ton 51–21.

The Barons led 19–2 after the open­ing period and 29–5 at half­time. Buck­eye Val­ley added six more points to their lead in the third quar­ter before both teams scored eight in the fourth to end the game.

Lyons once again led Card­ing­ton in scor­ing with 11 points.

High­land Scots

High­land strug­gled offen­sively on Thurs­day, Dec. 27 in a 72–24 loss at Utica.

The Red­skins jumped out to a 27–4 lead after the first quar­ter and 46–10 at the half. Utica added 16 points to their lead in the third period. High­land would outscore their oppo­nents 12–8 in the fourth quar­ter to fin­ish on a pos­i­tive note.

Kayla Davies led High­land with eight points.

On Sat­ur­day, Dec. 29, third-quarter woes cost the Scots in a 64–47 loss at East Knox.

While High­land trailed 8–4 after the first quar­ter, they got within one point at 21–20 by the half. Unfor­tu­nately, they would be outscored 29–12 in the fourth quar­ter to fall behind by 18 — a deficit they could not overcome.

Abby Gar­cia led the team with 12 points, while both Lexi Winkelfoos and Nic­hole Carter added 10.

Last Thurs­day saw North Union outscore the Scots in every quar­ter on their way to tak­ing a 62–21 win.

The Wild­cats led 12–5 after the first quar­ter and 24–10 at the half. They would then go on to take the sec­ond half by a 38–11 mar­gin to con­tinue pulling away.

Gar­cia led the Scots with seven points.

Mount Gilead Indians

Mount Gilead com­peted in Cen­ter­burg for a hol­i­day tour­na­ment on Thurs­day, Dec. 27, and Fri­day, Dec. 28.

In their first game, the Indi­ans lost to Cen­ter­burg 76–45. The Tro­jans jumped out to a 24–8 lead after the first quar­ter, which they improved to a 44–14 mar­gin by the half.

The two teams played equally in the sec­ond half, with the Tro­jans tak­ing a slim 32–31 advan­tage, allow­ing the host team to claim the win.

Christin Sweeney paced the Indi­ans with 15 points, while Shelby Rizor added 13.

In a defen­sive bat­tle held the next day, Mount Gilead lost 29–15 to Hills­dale. The Indi­ans only trailed 6–4 after the first period, but were outscored 19–4 over the mid­dle two peri­ods. While they outscored the Fal­cons 7–4 in the final period, they weren’t able to over­come the large Hills­dale lead.

Rizor’s six points paced Mount Gilead.

On last Sat­ur­day, Elgin topped Mount Gilead by a 56–17 mar­gin. No fur­ther infor­ma­tion was available.

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