Louisville Falls in Road Rematch with Howland 56-50 – Girls Basketball
Howland 56, Louisville 50
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The Louisville Leopards Girls Varsity Basketball Team fell to the host Warren Howland Tigers 56-50 Wednesday Night at Howland High School. With the loss, Louisville falls to 6-11 on the season.
Senior Paige Cole scorched the nets with 5 three-pointers en rout to scoring a team-high 19 points to lead the Lady Leopards. Senior Sherilynn Mullett also poured in 12 and junior Kendal Loy added 7 all from the free throw stripe.
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Lady Leopards Storm Out of the Gate
Louisville took a 7-0 lead out of the gate and held that advantage to the end of the first quarter at 16-9. Howland chipped away at the Leopard lead in the second quarter, but LHS still remained ahead 30-25 at the break.
The two teams battled back-and-forth exchanging points to open the second half. Louisville continued to hold a five-point 38-33 advantage with under a minute and a half to play in the third quarter. That lead quickly evaporated as the Lady Tigers ended the period on a 5-0 run to tie the game at 38-38 heading into the fourth quarter.
Howland Pulls Away with 7-0 4th Quarter Run
The Leopards and Tigers continued to battle back-and-forth through the first few minutes of the fourth quarter. Howland took their first lead of the game when sophomore 5’11 small forward Courtney Clark pulled down an offense board and laid it back in to make it 45-44. However, Louisville responded immediately on the other end as Cole hit her fifth three-pointer of the contest on the left wing from WNBA range. 47-45 Leopards.
Howland answered back on the other end as junior shooting guard Alyssa Pompelia bullied her way into the lane and pulled back to knot the game at 47-all. With 3:14 left in the contest, Loy hit a pair of free throws from the line but the second make was waived off by a lane violation to keep the Leopard lead at 48-47.
The Lady Tigers responded with a 7-0 run to take the lead for good. Pompelia drove to the rack for a basket to take the lead back. Then junior 6’2 center Jamie DeSalvo used her height advantage underneath to add two more points to Howland’s total. The Tigers would then hit 5 of 9 free throw attempts over the course of the final 2:01 to ice the game.
DeSalvo and Pompelia Lead Tigers With 11 Each
DeSalvo and Pompelia combined for 13 of Howland’s 18 points in the fourth quarter. Both would finish with a team-high 11 points to lead the Lady Tigers. Lawrence also added 9 for HHS.
Louisville is now 1-4 against Howland all-time since their first meeting in 2017. The Lady Tigers are now 2-0 when hosting the Lady Leopards at Howland High School
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UP NEXT: The Lady Leopards will next travel to Hudson to take on the Western Reserve Academy Pioneers on Friday, February 5. This meeting will be a varsity only matchup beginning at 6:00 PM.
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Varsity Statistics
TIGERS 56, LEOPARDS 52
Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL
Louisville 16-14-8-12—50
Howland 9-16-13-18—56
LEOPARDS: Cole 7 0-0 19, Mullett 5 2-2 12, Loy 0 7-8 7, Adelman 2 2-2 6, Haren 3 0-0 6. TOTAL 17 11-12 50.
3-Pointers (5): Cole 5
Team FT: 11-12 92%
TIGERS: Ja DeSalvo 5 1-2 11, Pompelia 3 5-7 11, Lawrence 2 4-6 9, Clark 3 2-2 8, Massucci 2 2-2 7, McClain 2 1-2 6, Sindledecker 1 1-2 4. TOTAL 18 16-23 56.
3-Pointers (4): Lawrence, Massucci, McClain, Sindledecker
Team FT: 16-23 70%
Fouls: 18-11 Louisville
Turnovers: 10-8 Louisville
Records: Louisville 6-11
JV: Howland 39, Louisville 34
JV Statistics
TIGERS 39, LEOPARDS 34
Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL
Louisville 4-7-8-15–34
Howland 11-11-12-5–39
LEOPARDS:Gonzalez 6 0-0 12, Wasara 5 0-2 11, Mayle 4 0-0 8, Popa 1 0-0 2, Sypolt 0 1-2 1, Burick 0 0-2 0, Holmes 0 0-2 0. TOTAL 16 1-8 34.
3-Pointers (1): Wasara
Team FT: 1-8 12%
TIGERS: Barrish 2 8-9 12, Hoso 5 1-1 11, Desalvo 2 2-2 6, Silvers 3 0-0 6, Matlock 1 0-5 2, Gajski 0 1-2 1, Massucci 0 1-2 1. TOTAL 13 13-21 39.
3-Pointers: None
Team FT: 13-21 62%
Fouls: 19-7 Louisville
Turnovers: 19-16 Howland
Records: Louisville 4-10
