Louisville Downs Dover 62-57 – Girls Basketball
Louisville 62, Dover 57
The Louisville Leopards Girls Varsity Basketball Team downed the host Dover Tornadoes 62-57 Monday Night at Dover High School. With the victory, Louisville improves to 4-3 on the season.
Paige Cole scored a team-high 17 points to lead the Lady Leopards who had four players reach double digits in scoring. Kendal Loy and Sherilynn Mullett also poured in 13 each, Kelsey Adelman added 10, and Kayla Gibson tacked on 7 for Louisville.
The Lady Leopards led 15-10 at the end of the first and extended their lead to 29-22 by halftime. The two teams played even in the third quarter scoring 17 points a piece. Dover took the lead midway through the fourth quarter and edged Louisville 18-16 in the final stanza overall. It would not be enough as the Leopards retook the lead and the game.
The Lady Tornadoes were led by S. Blair who poured in 19 of her game-high 23 points in the second half. T. Jones also hit double figures scoring all 10 of her points in the first three quarters. A. Bezknap and M. Kiser added 9 each for Dover as well.
The Tornadoes lost the game despite shooting a perfect 9-for-9 from the free throw line. The Leopards shot just 57% from the line (12 of 21) in comparison which included making only 3 of 8 shots from the charity stride in the fourth quarter. Louisville won the game anyways.
This was the first meeting between the two programs since 2005. Louisville now leads the all-time series 7-6, which includes a 4-3 mark in games played at Dover.
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JV: Louisville 11, Dover 9, 1 Half
UP NEXT: The Lady Leopards will next host the Tallmadge Blue Devils on Wednesday, December 18. JV will begin at 6:00 PM and Varsity will follow around 7:30 PM.
Varsity Statistics
LEOPARDS 62, TORNADOES 57
Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL
Louisville 15-14-17-16–62
Dover 10-12-17-18–57
LEOPARDS: dole 6 3-4 17, Loy 4 5-7 13, Mullett 4 4-7 13, Adelman 5 0-0 10, Gibson 3 0-2 7, Joseph 1 0-1 2. TOTAL 23 12-21 62.
3-Pointers (4): Cole 2, Gibson, Mullett
Team FT: 12-21 57%
TORNADOES: Blair 9 3-3 23, Jones 4 1-1 10, Bezknap 4 1-1 9, Kiser 2 4-4 9, Conner 1 0-0 2, Martin 1 0-0 2, Neff 1 0-0 2. TOTAL 22 9-9 57.
3-Pointers (4): Blair 2, Jones, Kiser
Team FT: 9-9 100%
Fouls: 15-14 Dover
Records: Louisville 4-3