An ice-cold shooting performance and a ton of turnovers plagued Triad’s girls basketball team on Thursday during a 69-26 loss to Greeneview.
The Lady Cardinals (4-3 overall and 2-2 in the Ohio Heritage Conference) shot 11-of-56 from the field and committed 28 turnovers.
“That usually isn’t a good sign for a basketball team and it certainly wasn’t for us,” said coach Jeff Merklin.
“Greeneview is an excellent basketball team and they certainly showed it tonight,” he said. “My only disappointment is that we played very, very well for the first 13 minutes, as we were down only 16-10 with about three minutes left in the first half.
“Greeneview called a time-out, came out on fire and we couldn’t get it stopped.”
The Rams tallied the final 15 points of the second quarter to go into the break up 31-10.
“That was the game,” said Merklin.
Even in defeat, there were some bright spots for Triad, said Merklin. He pointed to Audrey Lightle’s best offensive game of the season with eight points.
Greenview made 19 trips to the free throw line and connected on 15.
Triad was just one-for-six from the stripe.
The Lady Cardinals will return to action on Saturday when they travel to Mechanicsburg.
Greeneview
Strickle 12-3-28, Boyer 3-5-11, Fife 4-1-10, Sonneman 3-0-8, Sweat 0-4-4, Maxwell 1-1-3, Harding 1-1-3, Ferrell 1-0-2, Schloss 0-0-0, Vipperman 0-0-0. Totals 25-15-69.
Three-point goals: Sonneman 2, Strickle 1, Fife 1.
Triad
Lightle 4-0-8, Ferguson 4-0-8, Vanninen 2-1-5, F. LeVan 2-0-5, Thomas 0-0-0, Cole 0-0-0, Hasting 0-0-0, Plank 0-0-0, Perry 0-0-0, C. LeVan 0-0-0, Cauley 0-0-0, Bailey 0-0-0, Walls 0-0-0. Totals 12-1-26.
Three-point goal: F. LeVan 1.
Bunsold squads split
The Marysville eighth-grade boys Blue cagers improved to 7-0 with a 44-26 win over Delaware Dempsey.
The seventh-grade Red boys lost to Lima West, 49-38.
Emerson Trapp led the Monarchs with eight points.