Dragons shake off slows start to take down Hornets

PROCTORVILLE — It took a while for Trevor Lochow and the Fairland Dragons to warm up, but once they did, they were cooking.

Fairland shook off a slow start and found its shooting touch to beat the Coal Grove Hornets 65-42 in an Ohio Valley Conference game on Monday.

The game was scoreless until Trevor Lochow hit a 3-pointer with 5:39 on the first quarter clock. That shot ignited a 10-0 run that finally ended on a 3-pointer by the Hornets' Bronson Guy with 1:09 left in the quarter.

Leading 13-3 heading into the second quarter, Lochow began to heat it up from long range. His 3-pointers at the 7:43 mark made it 16-3. Guy had a triple and Caden Turner made a foul shot as Coal Grove got within 16-7, but Lochow hit from deep again. James Dome had a layup for the Hornets only to have Lochow answer with a triple and it was 22-9.

Fairland (7-3, 4-2) took a 29-16 lead into the locker room and then came out and outscored the cold-shooting Hornets 18-8 to build a 47-224 lead.

Cliff Fransen had 5 points including 3 of 3 at the foul line, and both Gerald Love and Lochow scored 5 points including 3-pointers.

Each team scored 18 points in the fourth quarter as Turner and Dome combined for 9 points while seven different players scored for the Dragons.

Lochow finished with 24 points to lead all scorers. Fransen had 13 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists.

Turner had 15 points and Dome 12 to pace the Hornets (5-7, 1-5).

Coal Grove 3 13 8 18 =  42

Fairland 13   16   18   18  =  65

COAL GROVE (5-7, 1-5): Bronson Guy 4 1 1-2 12, Peyton Bryant 0 0 0-0 0, Rylan Smith 1 2 2-3 10, Chayce Murphy 1 0 0-0 2, Braden Schug 0 2 0-0 6, James Dome 4 0 0-0 8, Caden Turner 1 1 0-0 5. Totals: 11 6 3-5 43. Rebounds: (O-8, D-23) 31 (Smith 8, Turner 7, Dome 6). Assists: 4 (Guy, Bryant, Schug, Dome). Steals: 4 (Guy, Smith, Dome, Turner). Blocks: 3 (Turner 3). Turnovers: 15. Fouls: 6. Fouled out: None.

FAIRLAND (7-3, 4-2): Ford Rickard 1 2 2-3 10, Trevor Lochow 1 3 3-4 14, Kinyon Smith 0 0 0-0 0, Kiyan Page 0 0 0-0 0, Cliff Fransen 4 2 0-0 14, Stephen Jones, 0 0 0-0 0, Gerald Love 2 2 2-2 12, Maddox Gue 2 2 2-4 12, Owen Burcham 0 0 0-0 0, Totals 10 11 9-13 62. Fouls 16.  Fouled out: Rickard.