Lady Bobcats Rip Lady Tigers Ahead Of Monday's SOC Showdown

FRANKLIN FURNACE — It was tune-up time.

The Green Lady Bobcats beat the New Boston Lady Tigers 64-31 in a Southern Ohio Conference 1 to head into Monday’s showdown at Portsmouth Notre Dame.

Green is 15-1 overall and 5-0 in the conference. The Lady Bobcats can win the league title outright with a victory. Notre Dame needs a win to share the title with Green.

Matti Hayslip drilled a pair of 3-pointers and scored 7 points with Abbie Knapp scored 11 points and Green built an 18-9 first quarter lead.

Arenda Gosselin scored 7 of New Boston’s 9 points in the quarter.

Knapp scored 6 points, Elizabeth McBee had 4 points and Addison Blizzard hit a 3-pointer as the lead went to 31-19 at the half.

Gosselin hit a 3-pointer and scored 7 points while Brooklyn Boyer added a trey for the Lady Tigers in the second quarter.

Mylee Brown and Ava Abrams had 3-pointers while Hayslip and Knapp combined to make 5 of 6 at the foul line and the lead was 42-26.

Green put the game away in the fourth quarter as Knapp pumped in 8 points, Hayslip hit a trey and scored 5 points and Brown added 4 points as the Lady Bobcats outscored New Boston 20-5.

Knapp finished with a game-high 28 points with Hayslip scoring 14.

Gosselin scored 20 points for New Boston (6-11, 2-4).

New Boston 9 10 7 5 = 31

Green 18 13 13 20 = 64

NEW BOSTON (6-11, 2-4): Julie Maynard 0 0 0-0 0, Arenda Gosselin 5 2 4-8 20, Justina Williams 1 0 0-0 2, Kaelyn Tabor 0 0 0-0 0, Hayden Stone 1 0 0-0 2, Brooklyn Curnette 0 0 0-0 0, Bella Mustein 0 0 0-0 0, Brooklyn Boyer 1 1 2-2 7. Totals: 8 3 6-10 31. Fouls: 12. Fouled out: None.

GREEN (15-1, 5-0): Addison Blizzard 0 2 0-0 6, Mylee Hunt 1 0 0-0 2, Miranda Hunt 0 0 0-0 0, Elizabeth McBee 2 0 0-0 4, Bailei Antonera 0 0 0-0 0, Mylee Brown 1 2 0-0 7,  Ava Abrams 0 1 0-0 3, Matti Hayslip 1 3 3-4 14, Abbie Knapp 11 0 6-9 28. Totals: 17 7 9-13 64. Fouls: 10. Fouled out: None.