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- High School Sports
- Published: Jan. 06, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
PARMA -- The Western girls hoops squad utilized a beardown opening tally successful nan first quarter, and different tally successful nan 3rd 4th to hit Marshall 73-45 connected Tuesday successful an Interstate 8 matchup.
The Panthers raced retired to an 8-1 lead early, past turned a nine-point advantage successful nan 3rd 4th into a 19-point lead pinch a 10-0 run.
Four Panthers scored successful double figures pinch Aubree Allen contributing a double-double pinch 15 points and 15 rebounds. Rayah Hitt had 17 points, each successful nan 2nd half. Teagan Dean had 14 points and Calley Spitzer added 11.
“Definitely passing nan shot and getting a batch of different girls shots and not conscionable maine and Rayah,” Allen said. “We shared nan shot a lot, and it decidedly worked really well.”
Marshall’s Ally Koenig had 22 points to lead nan Redhawks.
“Koenig’s a really, really bully player, and we needed to unit her distant from her strengths better, and we conscionable didn’t,” Western coach Jeff Beckman said.
Western saw scoring from 7 different players, pinch 30 points coming from freshmen aliases sophomores.
“They produced a batch tonight,” Allen said. “They took nan shot wherever they needed to spell and it decidedly showed that they are apical scorers excessively and they request to support taking nan shot for illustration we do.”
Western changeable 8-of-14 from nan section successful nan first 4th and 14-of-30 from nan section successful nan first half. After a 1-of-8 shooting agelong to unfastened nan third, Marshall was capable to get backmost wrong 9 points, but Western sewage backmost connected way offensively and changeable 11-of-22 from nan section nan remainder of nan way.
“We made shots early and that led to an early lead, and past evidently successful nan 3rd quarter, you extremity making shots and they plaything backmost nan different way,” Beckman said.
Western pushed nan gait from nan opening tip, moving nan shot correct to Lola Berdiner who scored conscionable a fewer seconds into nan game.
That lead grew to 8-1 aft Becca Brushaber and Calley Spitzer added baskets and Rayah Hitt fed Teagan Dean for a layup.
The Redhawks responded pinch a bid of Ally Koenig baskets to get wrong three, down 10-7, portion of a 10-point first 4th for nan Marshall sophomore.
Western responded pinch 3-pointers connected nan adjacent 3 trips down nan floor, 2 from Dean and 1 from Allen to make it 19-9.
Allen connected connected different brace of baskets and Spitzer added a 3-pointer early successful nan 2nd to make it 28-15, but Marshall chipped distant astatine nan shortage later successful nan quarter, getting a 3-pointer from Koenig earlier Jordyn St. John fed Grace Shubert for a basket.
Berdiner responded pinch a 3-pointer disconnected an assistance from Abby Kubish, and Western led 35-24 astatine halftime.
Berdiner past opened nan second-half scoring pinch different 3-pointer, that 1 disconnected an assistance by Allen.
A brace of Lola Saber free throws sewage Marshall wrong 9 only for Western to motorboat a 10-0 run, pinch 8 of those points coming from Hitt.
“When you play a defense for illustration that and defender nan measurement that they do, Rayah and Aubree person to beryllium really bully successful nan small things; screening, cutting, rebounding,” Beckman said. “And past nan remainder of nan players person to beryllium much fierce offensively than they’re not utilized to. I deliberation erstwhile we went connected that run, we started to click. We sewage immoderate violative rebounds, we sewage immoderate backmost cuts, and that really took america to nan adjacent level.”
Western led by 20 astatine nan extremity of nan third, and that lead grew to 27 early successful nan 4th aft Dean converted a three-point play and Spitzer added a bargain and a layup to make it 65-38.
Eric Ingles has covered sports successful nan Jackson area since 2021. Before that he worked for people and integer outlets successful Sterling, Illinois, Sedalia, Missouri and Crawfordsville, Indiana, and TV stations in...
