UNITED BLOWS PAST BLUE DEVILS
LISBON OH- United Local headed into Monday night’s contest at Lisbon looking to end a two game skid. After playing outside of the EOAC against a very formidable non-conference schedule the last two games United used what they learned and taught Lisbon a thing or two en route to a dominating 71-25 victory.
Lisbon back in action for the first time in two weeks came out ready to challenge United early. Behind a challenging zone defense and fresh legs the Blue Devils stayed with the Eagles early on only trailing 16-8 after the 1st quarter. United looking to separate themselves from the Lisbon received quite the spark it was looking for in the 2nd quarter. Sophomore Samantha Lippiatt helped provide that spark coming off the bench scoring 17 first half points helping ignite the United offense outscoring Lisbon 21-5 on their way to a 37-13 halftime lead.
Lippiatt would finish the game with a career high 19 points but was far from alone filling the stat sheet on the night. Fellow Sophomore Grace Knight helped put the Eagles on her back in the second half on her way to her own career night. Knight ended the evening with an outstanding all around performance 25 pts, 13 rebs, 8 ast. United outscored Lisbon 35-12 in that second half and never looked back.
The performance of the two Sophomore’s caught the attention of their head coach: “Grace & Sam definitely provided a spark tonight. We have had two games in a row where kids on this team have had career nights, with points, rebounds, assists all different stats. The stat the girls really seem to focus on is winning, they were very excited as a group tonight.” Madison Kibler contributed 8 points / 6 assists, Taylor Cope chipped in 7 points to help fuel the United offense. Parker Henthorne contributed 10 points for Lisbon.
Getting back on the winning track was most important to Sigler “We challenged our kids the last two practices to compete at everything from drill work to running sprints. Tonight hopefully is just the beginning of our girls seeing what their capabilities are when they compete and show maximum effort the entire game.” United (7-3, 6-0) looks to continue their success Thursday welcoming Valley Christian to Hanoverton.
*Contributed By YSN’s Chris Sigler
