Lady Tiger hoopsters win big

By JON KLEINKNECHT

Inquirer Sports Editor

sports@galioninquirer.com

Junior point guard Ramonda Dorsey scored 20 points — 16 in the first half — as the Lady Tigers crushed vis­it­ing Mount Gilead 64–22 in non-conference girls’ hoops play Tues­day night.

The Orange-and-Blue halted a los­ing streak at three games and improved to 3–4 on the sea­son. The Lady Indi­ans tum­ble to 0–7.

Galion led from the begin­ning, hold­ing leads of 17–4 and 37–6 at the end of the first two peri­ods, respec­tively. Dorsey had a stel­lar first half, mak­ing 7-of-8 shots, includ­ing a pair of 3-pointers. She also recorded a cou­ple of steals and dealt out 2 assists.

The locals blis­tered the vis­i­tors 15–5 in the third frame to take a 52–11 advan­tage into the last stanza.

“That was the most unselfish bas­ket­ball game I’ve ever seen a high school girls’ team play,” Jen Meyer, Galion’s head coach said. “I’m so proud of all my girls. One of the things I really like about them is they are never sat­is­fied with how they play.”

All 10 Lady Tigers who played reached the scor­ing col­umn. Pey­ton Beachy and Bai­ley Ruhe dropped in 13 points apiece, with the for­mer drain­ing a quar­tet of 3-pointers. Calli Bauer, Kelly Mann and Shel­bie Schramek net­ted 4 points each, Jor­dan Kuns and Kayla LaFor­est con­tributed 2 tal­lies apiece, to go along with a free throw apiece from Raven Craw­ford and Tay­lor Valentine.

Also, Ruhe con­tributed 8 rebounds and 4 assists, Dorsey was 9-for-10 shoot­ing, Mann and Schramek each snagged 9 rebounds, and Beachy was a ball­hawk on defense reg­is­ter­ing 6 steals.

Cait­lyn Ever­hart was Mount Gilead’s top point-getter with 6 markers.

Team sta­tis­tics showed Galion con­vert­ing 27-of-68 field goal attempts (40 per­cent), 4-of-13 free throws (31 per­cent), pulling down 39 rebounds and turn­ing the ball over 20 times.

Mount Gilead was a pathetic 7-for-38 on action shots (18 per­cent), made 6-of-9 char­ity tosses (67 per­cent), grabbed 28 missed shots and turned the ball over 26 times. The foes com­bined for 17 mis­cues in the open­ing quarter.

“We’re show­ing improve­ment,” Meyer men­tioned. “It’s nice to see every­body contribute.”

Galion rolled to a 39–5 tri­umph in the junior var­sity match-up. Craw­ford and M’Lynn Gwin­ner tied for game-high scor­ing hon­ors with 9 points apiece. The win hikes the Orange-and-Blue’s record to 5–2.

Both Lady Tiger teams are at Upper San­dusky on Sat­ur­day for North Cen­tral Con­fer­ence play.

Posted by Jon Kleinknecht on Dec 19 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.