Lady Leps Return Home, Take Care of Carrollton 43-33

By Leopard Nation · Published January 28, 2012 · Updated December 2, 2017

Clara Lemmon Carrollton at Louisville Girls Varsity Basketball 1-28-2012

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Louisville 43, Carrollton 33

The Lady Leopards finally returned home after 7-game road trip and earned an ugly, yet convincing 43-33 win over the Carrollton Warriors Saturday afternoon. Clara Lemmon led the Lady Leps with 15 points, while Brianna Libertore scored 13 and Mackenzie Storlie added 8 in the victory for LHS.

Home sweet home. After fighting through adversity in the first three quarters, Louisville outscored Carrollton 13-4 in the final period to take the game from the Warriors. Lemmon scored 7 points in the fourth, which included the Leps only two field goals in the quarter. Both lay-ins were setup by Libertore who also went 4-for-4 from the line in the final stanza.

The contest reaped frustration by both squads from the field, especially in the first three quarters. The Leopards shot just 29% from the floor, but the Warriors shot an even worse 24% from the field. Louisville’s 11 turnovers didn’t help their cause, but on defense the Leps forced 15 Carrollton turnovers that more than countered their own mistakes.

A big key to the Leopards success on defense was shutting down the Warriors’ Taylor Lowdermilk. She poured in 22 points and hit 4 three-pointers in the first meeting at Carrollton. This time Lowdermilk hit 2 three-pointers in the first quarter, but Louisville didn’t allow her to score from the field after that. She was held to just 8 points for the game.

The Leopards stifling defense didn’t allow a single Carrollton player to reach double digits. The Warriors were led by Tessa Sanders 9 points on the afternoon. Also, in the first meeting Carrollton shot 7 of 14 from beyond the arch, but in this contest Louisville held them to a 3 for 18 performance from three-point land.

The Leopards had their woes as well from downtown, as they missed all 10 three-point attempts. However, they made up for that with a 15-of-21 performance from the free throw stride that proved to be the difference in the game. Carrollton out-fouled Louisville 16-10 and as a result the Warriors only could cash in on 6 of 7 free throw attempts.

This meeting with Carrollton will not be as memorable as the game earlier in the year between these two teams, but it is another corner piece to solving the NBC Championship puzzle.

NOTES

The win marks the 18th straight over Carrollton for the Lady Leps who now lead the all-time series 33-16.
The Lady Leps have now won 11 straight games at home dating back to last season and are now 6-0 at home this season.
The last time the Lady Leps scored 43 points or less and won a game was back on January 6, 2007 when Louisville squeaked out a win at Minerva 43-42.

STATISTICS

WARRIORS: Sanders 4 0-0 9, Lowdermilk 2 2-2 8, Tullis 2 2-2 6, Devine 2 0-0 4, Kirk 1 1-2 3, Voll 1 1-1 3. TOTALS 12 6-7 33.

TEAM FG: 12-50 24%

TEAM 3PT: 3-18 17% | Lowdermilk (2), Sanders (1)

TEAM FT: 6-7 86%

LEOPARDS: C. Lemmon 6 3-4 15, Libertore 4 5-7 13, Storlie 2 4-6 8, Brown 1 2-2 4, Risaliti 1 0-0 2, Rice 0 1-2 1. TOTALS 13 15-21 43.

TEAM FG: 13-45 29%

TEAM 3PT: 0-10 0%

TEAM FT: 15-21

Team 1-2-3-4-Total

Carrollton 11-8-10-4–33

Louisville 13-5-12-13–43

Rebounds: Louisville 32-30

Fouls: Carrollton 16-10

Turnovers: Carrollton 15-11

Records: Louisville 11-4, 9-1; Carrollton 9-6, 5-5

NEXT UP: The Lady Leps will next travel to Marlington to take on the Lady Dukes on Wednesday, February 1. JV will tip off at 6:00, while Varsity follows at 7:30. The Lady Leps lead the all-time series over the Dukes 56-16 and have won 28 out of the last 29. They have also won the last 14 meetings at Marlington, having not lost their since the 1-20 season of 1996-97.

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JV REPORT

Louisville 35, Carrollton 20

The Lady Leopards defense forced 19 Warriors turnovers and allowed Carrollton to make just 5 shots from the field. In the third quarter the Lady Leps outscored the Lady Warriors 10-1 to take full control of the game, before cruising to victory in the fourth quarter. Nora Hmeidan and Rachel Zeller led Louisville with 8 points each, while Hollyann Mullett and Mackenzie Rankin dropped in 6 in a piece. Carrollton was led by Alex Grunder who scored 7 points and was the only Warrior to score more than once from the field. The Lady Leps JV Squad remains an undefeated 10-0 in NBC play, while improving to an 11-4 record overall.