LC-M vs OF/OF WINS 56-31

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17-17 Half.

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29-24 OF after 3.

[24 over par]

much closer than expected

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56-31 OF wins.

[24 over par]

of must have really rolled in the 2nd half congrats of

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Two of Orangefield's starters sat out about half of the first quarter and three starters sat out almost all of the 2nd quarter. Our leading scorer played very little in the first half. The girls just didn't look fired up and the coach kept the starters on the bench quite a bit. I hope things turn around soon, district starts next week. They played an excellent 4th quarter, would be great to see that intensity the whole game.

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From the Orange Leader:

Lady ’Cats hold off Lady Bears

Gabriel Pruett

The Orange Leader

ORANGEFIELD — It took all four quarters for the Orangefield Lady Bobcats to get past a pesky Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears’ squad.

The Lady Bears held a 24-23 lead late in the third quarter only to see the Lady Bobcats go on a 32-6 run to finish the game and win 56-31 in Bobcats Gym.

Senior Kaylin Little led the Lady Bobcats (5-5) with 23 points and eight steals while Nardis McBride led the Lady Bears (3-4) with nine points and nine steals.

Orangefield’s defensive pressure turned the corner for the Lady Bobcats who forced 15 turnovers in the third period.

LC-M on the night finished with 37 turnovers while Orangefield had 21.

The Lady Bears took their first lead of the game with 1:16 left in the first half as McBride was able to hit on two free throws.

Orangefield’s Jessica Weldon, who had four points and three steals, hit a free throw before LC-M’s Ellen Williams, who had three points, was able to knock down a shot making it 17-15 Lady Bears.

Orangefield’s Marissa Wyatt made the score 17-17 at the break with a shot of her own.

LC-M went on a 6-0 run to take the lead after Orangefield led for most of the game earlier on.

The second half belonged to Orangefield who turned on the defense which led to easy points as Little got going.

“The game just got away from us,†LC-M Coach Amanda Ellerbee said. “We just starting making some mental mistakes. I am still very proud of the way they played tonight. They did not come out scared one bit.â€

For Orangefield Coach Chris Jost, he is looking for the Lady Bobcats to stay out of foul trouble as four players had at least four fouls and other three had two.

“The only way to break it is to sit them,†Jost said. “It is a very hard habit to break. One school I was at I had to come up with the one foul rule where if you got one foul in the first period you sat until the end of the period. It just has to come from them. They have to be smarter and get to their angles.â€

Once Little, who had just six points in the first half, got going the Lady Bears were in trouble.

Little scored eight in the third and nine in the fourth to get the Lady Bobcats offense churning.

“KK got going a bit and everyone just started to feed off that,†Jost said.

With LC-M paying attention to Little, Olivia Wagner hit for 11 of her 12 points in the fourth.

Orangefield went on a 15-0 run in the fourth and took a commanding 54-29 advantage.

The Lady Bobcats finished 19-for-25 from the free throw line while the Lady Bears were 14-for-24. LC-M did out-rebound Orangefield 28-25.

There were a total of 44 fouls called in the contest.

The Lady Bears will travel to face the Bridge City Lady Cardinals Friday while Orangefield will travel to face Port Neches-Groves.

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No one should out rebound us.  We need to BLOCK OUT, and not just look at the ball as its shot.

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And when did fouling become a habit?