Lady Raiders grab sixth straight victory with win over L'burg

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

South Ripley's girls varsity basketball team picked up their sixth straight victory Tuesday night with a 44-21 win over the visiting Lawrenceburg Lady Tigers.

The Lady Raiders did the unthinkable, holding the Lady Tigers to no points in the entire first quarter. With their 12 points in the quarter the Raiders took an early lead they never lost. Julie Lipperd scored more than half the Raiders' points in the first quarter with 8.

In the second quarter the Lady Tigers finally got on the scoreboard, scoring five points in the quarter. South Ripley doubled Lawrenceburgs total with 10 to take a 22-5 lead at halftime.

The third quarter was the same thing for both teams, as the Raiders poured on the offense the Tigers were looking for any way to score. South Ripley scored 13 points in the quarter while Lawrenceburg scored a game high 7 points.

South Ripley managed to score just nine points in the final quarter, but it was still more than their opposition who had 7 to make the final score 44-21.

Lipperd led the Raiders with another double-double, scoring 12 points and grabbing a season high 17 rebounds. Erin Collier was next on the scoring list with 12 points, with a team high 6 assists. Kristen Huss netted 9 points, Ciara McGuire had 5 and Bethany Vaughn and Beth Stratton both had 2 points each. Lipperd led the team with 3 blocked shots and Collier and Huss led the Raiders with 3 steals apiece.

Ayrica Harvey and Sara Vorbroker were the Lady Tigers' leading scorers with 5 points apiece.

South Ripley will look to continue their winning streak with a home game against conference opponent Shawe. Shawe doesn't have a reserve team so the varsity game will start at 6:00 pm.

Lady Indians score just 16 points in loss to South Dearborn

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

The Lady Indians' varsity basketball team suffered their worst loss of the season with a 56-16 loss to the Lady Knights from South Dearborn. With the loss Milan's record falls to 0-7 on the season.

Milan stayed close in the first quarter as they held South Dearborn to their lowest output of the game with 10 points. The Lady Indians' Megan Lade scored four points in the quarter and was helped out by Kiley MacVey with two to give the Indians six points for the quarter.

In the second quarter the Knights pushed their advantage to double-digits as the outscored the Indians 13-5 to make the score 23-11 at halftime, but the game wasn't out of reach for Milan. Kiley MacVey had a team high for Milan with 6 first half points.

In the third quarter the Indians were in a rut they couldn't get out of scoring just three points. South Dearborn, on the other hand, added 14 points their total to all but seal the victory. Going into the final quarter the Lady Indians were trailing by 23 points at 37-14.

The scoring drought continued for Milan as they scored a dismal 2 points in the final quarter to SD's 19 to make the final score 56-16.

Only four Milan players
scored in the contest with Kiley MacVey leading the team with 6 points followed by Megan Lade with 5, Katie Volz with 3 and Kaity Barton with 2.

The Lady Indians play again this Saturday at home against Edinburgh. That game is scheduled to start at 11:00 am with the JV playing first.