Mason County Central 59  Fremont 50

We struggled early in this game with far too many turnovers, giving Mason County Central early momentum. Most of the turnovers were unforced turnovers.  We turned the ball over 9 times in the first quarter which helped MCC take an early 21-12 first quarter lead.  MCC increased its lead to 38-25 at halftime as we had 15 first half turnovers.  MCC is a very good and experienced team, they moved the ball well  and found open shooters, but we helped by giving the ball away 15 times in the first half.  We regrouped and played much better in the second half.  We cut the lead to 8 at the end of the third quarter, 50-42, and then cut the lead to 4, 54-50 with 1:20 to go in the game, but we were forced to foul late and MCC made their free throws down the stretch.  We showed a lot of fight after getting down as many as 17 in the second quarter and getting it down to 4, but you cannot dig yourself that big of a hole vs such a good team on the road and expect to come away victorious.  We will learn and move on.  We are 15-4, 10-0 in league and play a key league game at home Friday vs. Manistee.  Riley Chase had a career high 19 points to lead us, Jessica Bennett had 13, Taylor DeKuiper had 9, Mia Clemence had 6 and Khaila Noordyk had 3.