Fremont 55  Montague  45

Tonight we celebrated National Girls and Women in sports day a day early by inviting our entire youth basketball program K-12 to attend the game.  We have over 150 girls playing basketball K-12 and most were in attendance tonight.  

We survived a horrendous shooting night with great defense and creating 30 turnovers.  We shot 14-65 from the floor and missed 20 free throws.  We led 19-6 after the first quarter and 35-17 at half, but we only shot 9-35 in the first half.  In the second half Montague took advantage of our cold shooting by outscoring us 17-6 in the third quarter, as we shot 3-17 in that quarter.  The 4th saw Montague cut our lead down to 3 with 5 minutes to go, but we regrouped, finally made our free throws (9-13 in 4th) and we were able to get a key league win.  

Montague has improved a ton, you could see it on film, but I thought we could have put this game out of reach in the first half with better shooting and making our free throws.  We came out with great energy, we just have to finish shots.  We did have very balanced scoring with Mia Clemence 13 points, Riley Chase 12 points, Jessica Bennett 12 points, Taylor DeKuiper 10 points and Olivia Hansen 5 points.  Riley Chase also had 11 steals.  Mia Clemence had 7 steals and 5 assists.  Taylor DeKuiper had 4 steals and 7 rebounds, Jessica Bennett had 7 rebounds and Katie Ackerman had 5 steals.  We are 12-3 overall and 8-0 in League.  We play Friday at Orchard View.