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Tri-Village
senior Krystal Falknor muscles her way around Houston's
Kourtney Phipps. Falknor tallied eight
points on the night as the Lady
Patriots rolled to a 62-35 victory. CNO photos by George Starks
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Tri-Village remains undefeated with win
over Houston
Ansonia up next for Lady Patriots
By George Starks
NEW MADISON- Even with three of his big guns on the bench with first
quarter foul problems, Tri-Village coach Brad Grey was quite pleased
with the effort his team displayed against Houston Tuesday at The
Battleground.
In fact, with Shaye Thomas, Lexi Bruner and Krystal Falknor watching,
senior Teha Richards stepped up and took the reins, leading the team as
a true senior leader would as Tri-Village unloaded a 62-35 victory over
the Wildcats.
When I have two of me leading scorers sitting next to me for the
majority of the quarter and we were able to extend our lead,” Grey
stated. “Teha was out there as our leading scorer and took it on her
shoulders to help get the lead extended, what a great job she did,”
The Patriots got out of the gate slow, battling the Cats to a 5-5 tie
mid-way through the opening frame.
With just over four minutes remaining in the frame, the Patriots went
on an 11-0 run to close out the first eight minutes, up 16-5.
Holding a 32-16 lead at the break, the Patriots defense held strong as
Houston could muster just 10 third quarter tallies while T-V racked up
a commanding 48-28 advantage with a quarter left to play.
“Our defense was good tonight,” said Grey. “We are back to where we
were two weeks ago. Saturday we weren’t good defensively (vs. National
Trail) but we picked it back up tonight. It was a good effort.”
While the defense was stingy for the Pats in the third frame, it was
downright vicious in the fourth quart, allowing just seven more Wildcat
points, 17 for the whole second half.
In the end, Thomas netted 20 for Tri-Village while Richards added 13
and Bruner 10 in support.
Now 4-0, the Lady Patriots will remain idle until December 13 when they
travel to Ansonia to take on the Tigers.
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Patriots
senior Teha Richards (15) works the offense in the first
quarter as Shaye Thomas (24) waits to recieve a pass
from Richards.
Thomas led all scorers with 20 points while Rivhards dropped in 13.
Tri-Village is now 4-0 on the season.
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