Galion girls end losing skid

BY JEREMY BURKHART

Inquirer Cor­re­spon­dent

Galion used a trio of dou­ble digit scor­ers to help end a seven-game los­ing skid last Sat­ur­day after­noon defeat­ing Lucas 53–40 in North Cen­tral Con­fer­ence girls’ bas­ket­ball action at the high school.

The win put the Orange-and-Blue at 6–12 over­all and 3–9 in the conference.

The Lady Tigers scored the first points of the game tak­ing an early 2–0 lead, they would go ice cold after for much of the first quar­ter as the Lady Cubs would build an 8–2 advantage,

Galion would start to find some offen­sive rhythm late in the first quar­ter though, going on a 6–2 run over the last three-and-a-half min­utes to end the stanza down by just two.

Lucas’s Kate Red­ding scored eight of her team’s 10 points dur­ing the open­ing frame, with six com­ing on three-point shots.

The Lady Tigers head coach Jen Rich said her team knew the Lady Cubs big scorer is usu­ally Jackie Sauder, so they game planned to limit her effectives.

“But Red­ding totally picked it up and I didn’t expect that,” Rich said. “I absolutely didn’t expect her to shoot from three-point land. That was not scouted. We just thought Red­ding would stay in the paint with the ball, and boy was I wrong.”

Lucas pushed its lead to 12–8 with an early bas­ket from Red­ding in the sec­ond period. Galion’s Pey­ton Beachy answered right back with a three-point bomb cut­ting the lead to one.

The Lady Tigers closed the half with an 11–6 to put them up by four points at intermission.

Dur­ing the third quar­ter Galion turned offen­sively to 6’4” senior post Sam Hamar. She scored eight points dur­ing the stanza, giv­ing the locals a lead of as many as 11 points.

A pair of field goals by Lucas dur­ing the quarter’s last minute cut the gap down to 37–30.

Galion won the final eight min­utes 16–10 to lock up the victory.

“It feels so good to be back on the win­ning side,” stated Rich. “I also think it gave the girls a con­fi­dence boost head­ing into tour­na­ment time.”

Galion had eight girls play and all eight girls scored for the locals. Hamar led the way with 14 points with Beachy tossed in 13 mark­ers and Romanda Dorsey added 11 tallies.

Kelly Mann added 6 points while pulling down 7 rebounds and dish­ing out 7 assists.

Han­nah Ruhe added 4 points, while Jor­dan Kuns and Bai­ley Ruhe tacked on a field goal each and Kali Hey­dinger con­tributed a free throw.

Red­ding popped in a game-high 21 mark­ers for the visitors.

In the jayvee game the Lady Tigers came away with a 43–21 vic­tory with both Raven Craw­ford and Shel­bie Schramek scor­ing 10 points in the win­ning effort.

Galion will play Clear Fork (4–12) in the sec­tional tour­na­ment on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. at Ontario High School. The win­ner will meet unde­feated Shelby (16–0) on Feb. 25 for the sec­tional title.

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