By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada High School girls basketball team lost 58-15 to visiting McComb in a Blanchard Valley Conference bout Thursday evening, January 23.
The decisive defeat dropped the Bulldog record to 2-14 overall and 0-8 in BVC action.
McComb improved to 14-3 overall and 7-1 in BVC play after the lopsided win. The Panthers are second in the 11-team BVC behind Riverdale (8-0), and they are tied with Liberty-Benton (7-1).
“We really struggled against their 1-3-1 zone defense,” said Bulldog third-year head coach Zach Ricker. “It is the first 1-3-1 we have seen all year, you don’t see it much anymore.”
Junior center Anna Conley tallied a layup 10 seconds into the fray, but it turned out to be the only Ada lead. The Panthers reeled off the next 11 points and were never threatened.
Saraj Ridger scored three inside baskets, while Morgan Kern nailed a trey and a left-handed layup in the flurry. Conley stopped thr un with a layup midway through the opening stanza.
Four more Rider points and a trifecta by Kelsey Jenkins ended the period with nine consecutive points. Offensive rebound baskets hurt Ada early as they played a 2-3 zone in the first period before switching to a man defense.
McComb tallied the first 10 points of the second stanza to extend their run to 19-0 and build a commanding 30-4 lead. A transition layup by Conley made it 30-6.
Jenkins drilled another triple as the Panthers scored six points in a row. Conley’s driving transition layin cut the lead to 37-8. A fast break layup put the visitors comfortably ahead at the half, 39-8.
Bulldog Kenley Poling drained a right side trey early in the second half to cut the deficit to 41-11. But Panther Hannah Sherick scored seven consecutive points to end the third stanza on an 11-0 flurry, including a left wing triple, that stretched the margin to 52-11 after three periods.
Ada freshman Emily Gibson hit a nine-footer off a feed from Bulldog senior Lexi Poling to end a 15-0 McComb spurt with 6:50 remaining. Conley closed the scoring with a nice right side driving layup.
Conley paced Ada with 10 points on five baskets. Rider topped McComb with 14 points, while Kern tallied 13 markers. Sherick added nine.
Ada connected on six deuces and drained one triple. The Bulldogs did not shoot a single foul shot.
McComb canned 20 two-pointers and buried four treys. The Panthers converted six of their eight free throws (75 percent).
The Ada girls are 2-7 on the road and 0-7 at home. The 15 points was the lowest Bulldog single-game output this season.
Ada 15 (2-14, 0-8 BVC)
Lawrence 0 0-0 0, K. Poling 1 0-0 3, Gibson 1 0-0 2, L. Poling 0 0-0 0, Hevlin 0 0-0 0, Burns 0 0-0 0, Conley 5 0-0 10, Andreasen 0 0-0 0, Anderson 0 0-0 0.
Totals: 6-1/0-0/15. 3-pointers: K. Poling , L. Poling .
McComb 58 (14-3, 7-1 BVC)
Rider 6 2-2 14, Jenkins 2 0-0 6, Like 2 1-2 5, Scheff 3 0-0 6, Hassan 1 0-0 2, Lause 0 1-2 1, Bryan 1 0-0 2, Kern 6 0-0 13, Sherick 3 2-2 9.
Totals: 20-4/6-8/58. 3-pointers: Jenkins 2, Kern 1, Sherick 1.
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ADA MCCOMB |
1 4 20 |
2 4 19 |
3 3 13 |
4 4 6 |
FINAL 15 58 |
The Bulldog girls host traditional arch-rival Upper Scioto Valley (5-11) Tuesday, January 28. The Ram girls beat Ada 39-31 in the season opener at McGuffey in November.
USV defeated Ridgemont 42-29 Thursday night.
