Lady Hornets overcome slow start, roll past Lady Eagles

COAL GROVE — The Coal Grove Lady Hornets did what they wanted to do, they just took their time getting there.

Coal Grove shrugged off a slow start and rolled past the Ross County Christian Academy Lady Eagles 61-25 on Friday in a non-league game.

“We wanted to come out aggressively and try to take control of the game early,” said Lady Hornets’ coach Nick Miller.

“After not scoring the first two minutes of the game, we went on a run and outscored (Ross County) by 20 in the quarter.”

Jump starting the Lady Hornets was Izzy Kitts who scored all of her game-high 14 points in the first quarter as she drained four 3-pointers. Jenna Anson added 4 points and it was 24-4 at the end of the quarter.

In the second quarter, six different players scored as Coal Grove extended its lead to 44-9 at the break.

Emma Lively and Shay Collins each hit a 3-pointer and scored 5 points apiece as Coal Grove opened up a 60-15 lead.

Ross County outscored Coal Grove 10-1 in the fourth quarter as Abby Bevan hit a pair of 3-pointers as she scored 9 points.

Besides Kitts, Lively had 11 points with Anson and Collins netting 9 each.

Bevan had 13 points to pace Ross County.

The Lady Hornets played at Gallia Academy on Tuesday in an Ohio Valley Conference game.

Ross County 4 9 2 10 = 25

Coal Grove 24 20 16 1 = 61

ROSS COUNTY CHRISTIAN (0-2): Addison Porter 0 0 0-0 0, Mirabelle Johnson 0 1 0-0 3, Jaelynn Shell 0 0 0-0 0, Bella Ramey 0 0 0-2 0, Joce Jude 10 1-2 3, Abby Bevan 3 2 1-2 13, Emma Korte 2 0 2-6 6, Carly Patrick 0 0 0-0 o, Josie Perry 0 0 0-0 0. Totals: 6 3 4-12 25

COAL GROVE (2-0): Palin Hunter 1 0 2-2 4, Addison Meyer 0 0 0-0 0, Haili McKnight 0 0 0-0 0, Kendall Taylor 3 0 1-1 7, Karli Shore 1 0 0-0 2, Aria Robinson 0 0 0-0 0, Shay Collins 3 1 0-0 9, Emma Lively 3 1 2-2 11, Kensleigh Leffingwell 0 0 1-2 1, Izzy Kitts 1 4 0-0 14, Rebekah Dome 2 0 0-0 4, Jenna Anson 3 0 3-4 9. Totals: Totals: 17 6 9-11 61. Fouls: 10. Fouled out: None.