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John Glenn girls add two big conference wins to their

MVL season by Matthew Dotson

Vs Morgan (2/05) ously, not only tying up the game but only muster four more points as the Lil’ Vs River View (1/29)
The girls hopped on the bus to McCo- putting the Raiders in a 37 – 22 deficit Muskies dominated the final minutes John Glenn hosted the Lady Black
nnelsville on Saturday to pay a visit to heading into the halftime break. taking a 75 – 39 victory back home to Bears from Warsaw on Wednesday. The
the Morgan Raiders. At the tipoff, the When play resumed the Muskies con- New Concord. game between the two teams was a
two teams struggled to gain ground but tinued controlling the ball and letting the John Glenn will be back at home lot closer than the Muskies would have
Morgan pulled ahead slightly taking the Lady Raiders know that they had their again on Saturday, February 8th to face liked but in the end, they did persevere
first quarter by a score of 15 – 11. In the number. John Glenn bumped their lead Maysville, game time starts at 2 PM. and take a very narrow 36 – 33 victory,
second quarter, the Lil’ Muskies came to to 55 – 35 rounding out the third quar- sending the Black Bears home empty-
life lighting up the scoreboard continu- ter. In the final minutes, Morgan could handed.
Vs Tuscarawas Valley (1/25)
The Lady Trojans from Tuscarawas
Valley traveled to New Concord on Satur-
day to play the Lil’ Muskies in The Tank.
Right from the tipoff the John Glenn girls
knew they were in for a challenge as
Tusc Valley took control of the ball right
away and sped up and down the court
barely leaving time for the Muskies to
catch up in a quick 15 – 4 first quarter.
With halftime nearing John Glenn tried
pulling their offense together, but the
Lady Trojans just kept pushing further
and further ahead, taking a 38 – 11 ad-
vantage into the locker room.
Back on the court, the Lil’ Muskies
were not able to gather a strategy to
defend against the Trojans while they
were held to just one shot of their own,
Tuscarawas Valley continued their caval-
cade of shots ramping their lead to 38 –
11 by the end of the third. With the clock
ticking down, the Muskies had little time
to mount a comeback, however, they did
rally for seven points in the final seconds
of the game and fell to the Lady Trojans
60 – 20.
John Glenn’s Alaina Berry passes the ball to Aubrey Larrick. Matthew Dotson

Tri-Valley hit a 12 - 1 record at the top of the MVL with its eighth

straight win by Matthew Dotson

Vs John Glenn (2/04) ahead but still pulling off a 9 – 4 lead at
The Scotties hosted the Lil’ Muskies the beginning of the second frame. The
on Tuesday in the Dawg House. Tri-Val- Tornadoes stepped up their response
ley took off like a rocket after the tipoff, in the second quarter but fell short at
running at such a fevered pace that the halftime taking a 25 – 16 deficit to the
Muskies couldn’t hold them back. The break.
Dawgs jumped out to a massive 23 – 7 Back on the court, the Tornadoes blew
lead by the end of the first quarter. John through the Scotties’ defenses shorten-
Glenn bounced back in the second quar- ing the gap by five in the third quarter
ter but they couldn’t close the gap com- to 40 – 36 as the final period started.
pletely and the Scotties went to halftime Although the Tornadoes took the second
up 37 – 30. half on points alone, they couldn’t make
After the halftime intermission, the up the difference and lost to the Dawgs
two teams clashed with a nearly match- by a very close final score of 59 – 56.
ing third quarter but John Glenn couldn’t
take up any slack as the Dawgs still led Vs River View (1/25)
at the end of the third 52 – 44. In the On a trip to Warsaw on Saturday, the
final minutes of the game, Tri-Valley Scotties met up with the Black Bears.
turned up the heat as they pushed out The game was a blowout for the Dawgs
a 19-point final quarter to take a big as they controlled the ball the entire
conference win from the Muskies with a game bringing home a 64 – 41 win tally.
score of 71 – 53.
Vs Crooksville (1/24)
Vs Sheridan (1/31) Dresden hosted the Crooksville Ce-
Tri-Valley took a trip to Thornville on ramics on Friday night. Tri-Valley took
Friday to take on the Generals, the game over from the start of the game, not
was short-lived as the Scotties planned allowing the Ceramics to mount much
to raise the roof blasting off into the of an offense for the entire game and
lead and never looking back in order to pushing them into a running clock be-
bring home the 82 – 48 win. fore it was all said and done to take a
73 – 36 win.
Vs West Muskingum (1/28)
Rich Longaberger Court was the host-
ing location for the matchup between Made with
Tri-Valley and West Muskingum on Tues- 100%%
day night. In what they thought would
be a much easier matchup, the Dawgs local news.
found themselves struggling to pull Tri-Valley’s Nohah Nichols jumps up for a dunk in a big win over John Glenn. Matthew Dotson