Monday night the Lady Tigers traveled to the Austintown area for some McDonald "home cooking". By the end of the game the Lady Blue Devils had taken 35 shots from the free throw line. By contrast the Tigers only had 11 shots from the charity stripe. You figure it out. According to the paper Wellsville scored ten more field goals than McDonald.
In spite of the lop sided officiating the Lady Tigers battled to the very end only to come up short by two points at the end of an overtime period. You got to be proud of them. The Ladies from the ville never gave up and quit. This team has really developed over the season to become fierce competitors. With only one Senior Class member they are going to be causing a lot of teams some serious head aches in the future. They are starting to do that now.
Wellsville had two players to reach double figures for scoring. Mikyla Tipton led the Lady Tigers with 22 followed by Mieka Dalrymnple with 18. Dalrymple hit five three point shots.
Wellsville won the Reserve game by a score of 43 -23 with Dalrymple recording 12 points in that game.
In action last night (Thursday - Feb. 4), at home, the Ladies dropped a 7 point decision to the Sebring Lady Trojans. Wellsville trailed the whole first half going into the locker room down 11 points by a score of Sebring 32 - 21. As mentioned above they didn't give up. They came back in the third to outscore the Lady Ts 24 - 12. With 1:33 left in the third the Tigers took a 40 - 39 point lead. In the third & fourth quarters they out scored Sebring by four points. Unfortunately that first half was a little too much to overcome. By the time the clock ran out it was Sebring 66 - 59. The paper noted that Sebring had 34 free throws and 21 turn overs in that game. We don't know how many foul shots the Lady Tigers had but they only committed 15 turn overs.
Wellsville had three Ladies score in double figures. Meika Dalrymple led the charge with 22 points. Dalrymple hit six three pointers and led all scorers. Mikyla Tipton had 14 points, five rebounds and two steals according to the paper. Irene Kiser rounded out the double figures with 12 points, two assists and two steals. There was no Reserve game played last night.
The Ladies return to action Monday at home against Southern. That will be their last home game for the season. They finish out the regular season with three road trips at Jackson Milton, a make-up game at Sebring and finally at East Palestine.
The Lady Tigers are now 6 & 10 on the season. With the way they have come together to be serious contenders we know they are going to wrap up the regular season strong. We believed in them since early last December. Now they're showing us that belief wasn't misplaced. They are a good team.
Pictures above are from last night's game. Good Luck Ladies. Show 'em what you can do.
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