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Senior Kylie Demoret scored two points in South’s loss. |
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Girls basketball
Tuesday
At Greencastle
Greencastle 39, Southmont 28
Southmont 10 3 10 5 – 28
Greencastle 10 3 13 13 – 39
Scoring: Southmont – Cayla Porter 3-4 3-4 11, Laken Joyce 2-10 0-0 6, Crystal Flowers 0-2 3-4 3, Kylie Demoret 1-5 0-0 2, Kyra Burton 1-1 0-0 2, Brittany Byers 0-2 2-2 2, Stephanie Martin 1-1 0-0 2. Totals: 8-25 8-10 28. Greencastle – Becky Grivas 4-12 3-4 11, Mallory Miller 5-12 0-0 11, Chelsea Samuels 2-8 2-4 6, Cassie Alspaugh 2-6 0-0 5, Kayla Nobles 1-3 0-0 3, Tenille Burgeson 1-4 1-2 3, Kelsey Wainman 0-0 0-0 0, Jess Miller 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 15-46 6-10 39.
Three-point shooting: Southmont 4-10 (Porter 2-3, Joyce 2-5, Demoret 0-2), Greencastle 3-12 (Nobles 1-3, Alspaugh 1-4, M. Miller 1-4, Samuels 0-1).
Rebounds: Southmont 26 (Byers 9), Greencastle 27 (Grivas 11).
Turnovers: Southmont 20, Greencastle 6
Fouls: Southmont 12, Greencastle 13
Records: Southmont 1-1, Greencastle 2-0
Junior varsity
Greencastle 30, Southmont 13
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SOUTHMONT GIRLS BASKETBALL: Mounties run out of gas
With two seniors injured, Southmont falls to Greencastle
By Cale Stephens
For The Paper
GREENCASTLE – With two of their normal starters on the bench, the Southmont High School girls basketball team didn’t have enough scoring power, suffering a 39-28 loss at Greencastle.
Seniors Creasy Clauser and Elizabeth Sparks both sat out because of injuries Tuesday night.
For that reason, the Mounties had to look elsewhere for points and unfortunately didn’t find enough.
Southmont (1-1) couldn’t find an offensive rhythm until halfway through the first quarter, as the Mounties went on an 8-3 run to tie Greencastle 10-10 at the quarter break.
Any sort of spark the Mounties had went away in the second quarter, as they scored only three points
“We executed OK,” Southmont coach Reasley Thompson said. “We’ve just got to learn when to cut and when not to cut against a zone defense. We also need some of the girls to be a little bit more aggressive on offense. We got in a hurry. That’s when we tend to turn the ball over. We’ve just got to slow down.”
Southmont attempted just 10 field goals in the first half and turned the ball over nine times.
Luckily, the Tiger Cubs (2-0) were having the same sort of problems. The two teams tied 13-13 at halftime.
The same slow start plagued the Mounties in the third quarter.
They were outscored 7-3 in the first four minutes and had to rely on a late-quarter surge to bring them back within three points, 26-23, going into the fourth quarter.
By then, Southmont had ran out of gas and was on the wrong end of a 13-2 Tiger Cubs’ scoring run.
“I think we just ran out of energy,” Thompson said. “We’re not in very good shape. That’s my fault. Obviously we need to spend more time on conditioning. I’ve been more worried about other things. Once we get back into shape, I think we’ll start to execute better.”
Senior Cayla Porter led the Mounties with 11 points. Senior Brittany Byers pulled down a team-high nine rebounds.
Two Greencastle players scored in double figures, as senior Becky Grivas and sophomore Mallory Miller each had 11 points. Grivas also pulled down 11 rebounds.
Southmont has a lot of healing to do before it takes on Sagamore Athletic Conference and county-rival North Montgomery in Friday’s Sugar Creek Classic at Western Boone.
Thompson is hopeful that both Clauser and Sparks will play Friday night.
“I think some girls have been given opportunities [with the injuries] to step up and play some more minutes,” he said. “The extra minutes will help those girls out and, in turn, will help the team ou
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