Shooting goes cold for ES girls in back-to-back basketball defeats

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Shooting goes cold for ES girls in back-to-back basketball defeats

Fri, 01/22/2021 - 03:42
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs varsity girls basketball team has fallen victim to cold shooting. That cold shooting has resulted in back-to-back losses, a 47-18 Jan. 14 home rout by Bishop LeBlond of St. Joseph and a 53-10 defeat Monday at Liberty. The Tigers have shot 15% from the field over the two games, going 9-for-52. Against LeBlond, the Tigers jumped out to an early lead, but the Golden Eagles went on to outscore them 23-5 the first quarter. The Tigers continued to struggle offensively the second quarter, getting outscored 11-4. It was evenly matched for much of the third quarter before LeBlond went on a 5-0 run to end the quarter leading 43-13. Excelsior Springs edged LeBlond 5-4 the final quarter. Junior Mallory Millsap and freshman Alani Price led the Tigers in scoring with four points each. Junior Rylie Stottlemyre added three points. Juniors Kyli Crowley and Lillian Mawby and freshman Baylee O’Dell each added two points. Freshman Bailey Carder’s free throw…

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