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Owen Valley hands Lady Miners first loss
SPENCER - The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners basketball team has been on a roll since the beginning of the new season.
Winners of its first six contests, Linton-Stockton was off to the best start of any Lady Miners team since the 1982-83 squad started the season 10-0.
Tuesday the Lady Miners faced their stiffest test of the young season in a very good Owen Valley team.
And the winning streak was halted at six.
In a battle of unbeatens, Linton-Stockton held its own for the first 14 minutes and trailed by just seven points at halftime.
But in the second half, Owen Valley asserted itself and the Lady Patriots showed why they had beaten every previous opponent by 28 or more.
Owen Valley outscored the visitors 17-5 in the third quarter, handing Linton-Stockton its first loss of the season, 59-43.
“They’ve got to be one of the best teams we’ll face defensively with their length and how smart they are,” Lady Miners coach Jared Rehmel commented.
“They’re well coached and they’ve been playing together a long time.”
The hosts took an early 8-3 lead on a pair of steals and lay-ins by Dazia Drake and an inside bucket by center Lauren Godwin.
Mallorey Frye answered for the Lady Miners with a runner in the lane, then came up with a steal, feeding Vanessa Shafford for a 3-point play.
Linton took its first lead, 10-8 when Shafford found Lexi Anderson open underneath.
Owen Valley regained the upper hand on another Godwin hoop and free throws from Payton Cattorini and Ashley Johnson. Godwin’s putback gave Owen Valley an 18-13 lead.
Frye tossed to Aubrey Burgess for a three up top. But the Lady Patriots came back with a runner by Cattorini, Drake’s transition jumper and a Katie Farris stickback as the Lady Patriots took a 25-18 lead into the half.
The shots weren’t falling for the Lady Miners in the third quarter. But they were for the Lady Patriots.
Cattorini scored the first three buckets of the second half on a turnaround jumper, a glide to the hoop and a kick-out three assisted by Godwin.
Godwin’s old-fashioned 3-point play, a corner three from Kirsten Richardson and Drake’s fast break basket increased the lead to 21, 40-19.
Linton-Stockton staged a valiant comeback in the final stanza, cutting the deficit to eight, 46-38 with just under four minutes to play.
“I thought they kind of overwhelmed us in the first half and really most of the third quarter,” Rehmel said. “I thought we started playing with urgency and nothing to lose and good things happened for us.”
Burgess nailed a pair of treys. Frye found Shafford on a backdoor cut. Shafford canned a pullup in transition, sank a spot-up jumper and bagged a triple.
But the Lady Miners would get no closer.
Godwin and Login Richardson scored inside and Farris and Drake finished off the game at the free throw line.
“We’ve got to rebound the basketball better and we’ve got to move the ball better,” Rehmel said. “Other than that I told our girls, ‘That’s a good ball club.’
“The best part about it is we’ve got a lot of girls in there who are upset. That means they care. And you know, it’s hard to be mad when they’re playing as hard as they did.”
Linton-Stockton pulled out a 47-46 win in the junior varsity contest.
Next up for the Lady Miners is a road trip to Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference foe Eastern Greene Thursday.
LADY PATRIOTS 59, LADY MINERS 43
Linton-Stockton 11 7 5 20 – 43
Owen Valley 10 15 17 17 – 59
LINTON-STOCKTON (6-1) – Mallorey Frye 1 0-0 2, Aubrey Burgess 3 1-2 10, Vanessa Shafford 6 1-1 14, Haley Rose 3 3-4 9, Hannah Frady 0 3-4 3, Lexi Anderson 2 0-0 4, Jenna Littlejohn 0 1-2 1, Mattia Potter 0 0-0 0, Ezra Davis 0 0-0 0. Totals 15 9-13 43.
3-pointers: Burgess 3, Shafford 1. Personal fouls 11.
OWEN VALLEY (6-0) – Kara Schafer 0 0-0 0, Dazia Drake 5 3-4 13, Payton Cattorini 6 1-2 15, Abigail Herrington 1 0-0 2, Lauren Goodwin 6 2-3 14, Ashley Johnson 1 1-2 3, Katie Farris 1 5-7 7, Login Richardson 1 3-4 5. Totals 21 15-22 59.
3-pointers: Cattorini 2. Personal fouls 10.
