KFDM COOP Posted January 12, 2008 Author Report Posted January 12, 2008 Lady Titans crush Lady GandersBy Cody Pastorella The Port Arthur News Behind some great 3-point shooting, the Lady Memorial Titans strummed Baytown Lee in Port Arthur on Friday night. The Lady Titans hit 4-of-6 from behind the arc in the fourth quarter alone, cruising to a 51-35 victory over the Lady Ganders.With the win, Memorial improves to 16-7 overall and 5-2 in District 21-5A. The Lady Titans will travel to play West Brook on Tuesday. Head coach Joe Fonteneaux said while the game was sloppy with fouls at times, he was pleased his team picked up a win."We lost two in a row," he said, "so this was a big win for us. It's good to be back on the winning side of things. It's good for us to get back in the swing of things. We're at the halfway point now and we're in really good shape."The Titans get the district's tougher teams (Humble, Kingwood and Channelview) at home in this half of league play.Fonteneaux said the key to making a playoff run is to win the games at home and then try to steal a few on the road.While the Titans lost to Humble and Kingwood on the road, they did steal one from Channelview and at 5-2, Port Arthur has plenty of reasons to believe they are playoff bound. The Lady Titans pulled out to 20-point leads on three difference occasions and owned a 51-27 lead with just 3:53 left in the game.Most of that lead was built by Amber Kinlaw's shooting. Kinlaw hit two threes in the fourth quarter and was 4-of-10 for the game. Kinlaw tallied 15 points for the game. She was joined by Kandice Smith, who scored 15 points as well. Katherine Henderson and Sasha Charles both dropped in 10 points for Port Arthur. The game was never really in question. Memorial took an early 5-2 lead and then Lee hit a three to tie things up at 5-5. The Lady Titans then went on a 10-0 lead to end the first quarter at 15-5. Port Arthur only allowed 10 points in the first half. The Lady Titans shot 6-of-17, from behind the arc, for the game; and Memorial out rebounded the Lady Ganders 27-18. Once Fonteneaux called off the starters, Lee put together a 8-0 run to end the game that cut the score to 51-35.
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