Ladies remain perfect at 13-0

By Scott Black

Enter­prise Sports Writer

clydenews@bizwoh.rr.com

The Lady Fliers picked up wins 12 and 13 this past week as they defeated Fre­mont Ross 69–43 Jan. 11 and Mar­garetta 55–36 at home Jan. 12. The two wins took the Lady Fliers to 13–0 over­all and to 9–0 in the San­dusky Bay Con­fer­ence. That record landed them at num­ber three in the state in the lat­est DII rank­ings. You can catch the team in action Jan. 21 at St. Marys Cen­tral Catholic at 1:00 p.m.

The Lady Fliers had three play­ers in dou­ble fig­ures as Amanda Cahill led all scor­ers with 21 points. Bre­anne Michaels added 17 points and Rachael Smet­zler had 13. Abbi Has­sel­bach led Ross with 15.

The Lady Fliers jumped out to a huge 25–8 lead over Ross after one quar­ter. They then outscored Ross 16–10 in the sec­ond quar­ter to lead 41–18 at the half. The Lady Fliers then dou­bled up Ross 20–10 in the third quar­ter to lead 61–28. Ross did man­age to outscore the Clyde bench in the four quar­ter 15–8.

Other Lady Flier scor­ers in the game were Kelsey Michaels with eight, Lexi Weber four, Tayler Arndt two, Tori Rohrbach two and Jill Miller two.

Mar­garetta gave the Lady Fliers all they could han­dle in the first half before crum­bling under the pres­sure in the sec­ond half.

The Lady Fliers led 13–10 after one quar­ter thanks to five points from Lexi Weber and four from Amanda Cahill. In the sec­ond quar­ter Mar­garetta outscored the Lady Fliers 12–11 to trail by only two at the half 24–22. Again it was Cahill and Weber help­ing to hold off the Polar Bears as Cahill had five and Weber four.

In the third quar­ter the Lady Fliers outscored Mar­garetta 17–4 to blow the game open. Cahill had six points and Kelsey Michaels had four and three other girls scored at least two points to end the third quar­ter at 41–26. In the fourth quar­ter the Lady Fliers outscored Mar­garetta 14–10 to win going away. Cahill had seven in the quarter.

“I liked the sec­ond half of this game a lot bet­ter than the first half,” Lady Flier Coach John Cahill said. “We were slug­gish in the first half but some of that was them defen­sively. In the sec­ond half we played more like us. We really played well defen­sively in the sec­ond half. We just played much bet­ter in the sec­ond half. We tried to not let our game Sun­day affect us today. In a way this game was like a per­fect storm. I have to give credit to them because they had a good game plan.

“Lexi Weber was just great tonight. Her improve­ment from last year to this year has just been tremen­dous. She was really good tonight both offen­sively and defen­sively for us tonight. Lexi was def­i­nitely a bright spot.”

Cahill and Weber led the Lady Fliers in scor­ing with Cahill get­ting 22 and Weber 13. Mar­garetta didn’t have a player score in dou­ble fig­ures but Tatum Tucker had nine and Sarah Weyer had eight.

“The whole team came out tonight and knew that Mar­garetta was on a pretty good hot streak,” Weber said. “We knew that they were not going to come out and give up right away. We started a lit­tle shaky and were only up by two at the half but in the sec­ond half we stepped up big time. Every coach I’ve ever had has taught me that you have to lock down on defense first and then your offense will come and that’s what hap­pened tonight, with the help of my team­mates of course.”

The Lady Fliers out rebounded Mar­garetta 31–22 with Cahill get­ting 11 to com­plete her double/double. K. Michaels added seven more. Weyer led Mar­garetta with seven. The Lady Fliers were 9-of-13 from the line while Mar­garetta was 4-of-10. Rachael Smet­zler had eight steals and Weber had five assists.

Other Lady Flier scor­ers in the game were K. Michaels with six, Smet­zler with six, Han­nah Wadsworth four, Bre­anne Michaels two and Katie Lynch two.

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