Highland topples Indian girls’ team

By ROB HAMILTON

High­land was able to steadily increase a slim advan­tage over Mount Gilead last Tues­day in claim­ing a 47–38 win.

The host Scots only led 12–9 after the first quar­ter, but were able to outscore the Indi­ans 14–10 in the sec­ond and 13–10 in the third to jump out to a 10-point lead.

While Mount Gilead did take the fourth quar­ter by a 9–8 mar­gin, High­land was able to hold on for the win.

Abby Gar­cia scored 11 for the Scots, while Katie Davies added 10. For Mount Gilead, Jen­nifer Brey fin­ished with 12 points and Shelby Rizor added 11.

In their sec­ond game of the week, High­land was unable to get untracked offen­sively in a 52–20 home loss to Ridgedale.

The Rock­ets led 14–4 after the first quar­ter and 24–12 at the half, but didn’t pull away until the third quar­ter. Over those eight min­utes, they outscored High­land 20–3 to put the game out of reach.

Addie Franklin led the Scots with six points.

Card­ing­ton Pirates

On Thurs­day, the vis­it­ing Card­ing­ton girls got off to a slow start in los­ing 59–36 to Fredericktown.

The Fred­dies led 17–6 after the first quar­ter and 33–13 at the half in the game. Card­ing­ton played bet­ter in the sec­ond half, but would not be able to threaten their opponent’s lead.

Clar­isa Lyons fin­ished with 12 points, while Haley Foltz added nine and Kait­lyn Kavanaugh tal­lied eight.

On Fri­day, North Union outscored Card­ing­ton in every quar­ter in top­ping the vis­it­ing Pirates 84–33.

The Wild­cats led 18–5 after the open­ing period and outscored the locals 25–7 in the sec­ond, 19–11 in the third and 22–10 in the fourth on their way to the win.

Lyons led Card­ing­ton with 14 points.

Mount Gilead Indians

Third-quarter woes proved costly for Mount Gilead on Fri­day, as they fell 67–43 to River Valley.

After falling behind 14–7 after the first quar­ter, the Indi­ans fought back to get within a 23–20 mar­gin by the intermission.

How­ever, in the third quar­ter, the Vikings took a 22–5 advan­tage to take a com­mand­ing lead, which they held through the final period of play.

Shelby Rizor scored 17 for the Indi­ans, while Amanda Bush added eight.

North­mor Knights

Northmor’s girls strug­gled to put points on the board Fri­day at Buck­eye Val­ley in a 39–21 loss.

The Knights fell behind 10–8 after the first period and the score was 26–15 at the half. Unfor­tu­nately for North­mor, they would only muster six points in the sec­ond half, as their oppo­nents pulled away for the win.

Keaton Mowry’s six points led the Knights.

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