Tiger Ladies sink Pirate Gals

BY JEREMY BURKHART

Inquirer Cor­re­spon­dent

CARDINGTON—Galion’s girls bas­ket­ball team played one of their most com­plete games of the sea­son while throt­tling host Card­ing­ton 78–33 in non-conference action Thurs­day night.

The 78 points scored by the Lady Tigers is the most scored by the team under sec­ond year head coach Jen Meyer and, accord­ing to Meyer, is the most the team has scored in a long time.

Things were pretty close at the start of the game with the locals hold­ing a 16–9 lead over the Lady Pirates after the first period.

Dur­ing the sec­ond quar­ter Galion pushed its advan­tage over Card­ing­ton out to 36–20.

Meyer praised her team for being very unselfish dur­ing the game and pointed this out as one of the rea­sons they were suc­cess­ful dur­ing the game.

“They made sure every­one scored and went for the best shot, instead of just shoot­ing the ball just to shoot,” Meyer said.

In the sec­ond half is when the flood­gates opened for the Lady Tigers as they outscored the Lady Pirates 42–13 over the last two stanzas.

The biggest push for Galion came dur­ing the fourth quar­ter when it tossed in 25 points while hold­ing Card­ing­ton to just four.

Meyer said the first half for both teams was kind of like watch­ing paint dry. then in the sec­ond half the orange-and-blue switched things up defensively.

“In the first half we pressed and then in the sec­ond half we took the press off,” Meyer said. “We then started cre­at­ing turnovers at half court.”

Another pair of big mile­stones for the Lady Tigers dur­ing the game was hav­ing four girls in dou­ble fig­ures and hav­ing every girl on the team score.

Pey­ton Beachy lead the Galion offense, scor­ing 22 points and knock­ing down 6 three-pointers. Ramonda Dorsey tossed in 13 mark­ers and Bai­ley Ruhe racked up 12.

The Lady Tigers also got a big con­tri­bu­tion from Kelly Mann, who recorded a double-double, scor­ing 10 points and dish­ing out 10 assists.

Also con­tribut­ing to the cause for the orange-and-blue was Raven Craw­ford and Calli Bauer who both tossed in six markers.

Meyer said the squad is becom­ing a well-rounded team.

“Which is some­thing Galion hasn’t seen in a while,” Meyer said while point­ing out the team still has work to do. “In some games we com­pete dur­ing the first half and die in the sec­ond. I think it’s a men­tal thing.”

Meyer added that for her team to keep its momen­tum going, play­ers need to stop wor­ry­ing about the name of their opponent’s jer­sey and focus on themselves.

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