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Union Local beats the Huskies

MORRISTOWN — Union Local got off to a flying start Thursday night en route to a 65-28 pasting of visiting Harrison Central in Buckeye 8 girls’ basketball action inside ‘The Hangar’. It marked the third consecutive victory for head coach Kelly Hanlon’s squad.

The Jets led 16-2 after the first quarter as Haley Porter netted seven of her game-high 25. The junior dynamo played just two-and-a-half quarters and was coming off a 37-point effort against Magnolia earlier in the week.

“The girls were hitting their shots in the beginning and we did have a mismatch with Kaitlynn (Clark-Patterson) in the middle,” Hanlon said. “Everything ran pretty smoothly. Haley’s been playing really well for us.”

The 6-1 Clark-Patterson scored six of her 10 points in the opening frame, but wasn’t really needed from there on.

Also reaching double digits was sophomore Lauryn Menges with a dozen points.

For Harrison Central head coach Nick Yourkovich, it was a case of his Huskies not giving the maximum effort, but he also took some of the blame.

“It was a struggle all night,” he stressed. For some reason our effort just wasn’t there. It was a complete lack of effort offensively, defensively, not executing the way we’re supposed to on offense, missing assignments on defense, not sprinting back on defense and not moving the ball on offense.

“That’s on me and on them (the girls),” he continued. “I’ve got to prepare them better. I’ve got to stress that better in practice and they have to come out and want to do it. Tonight was all about effort. Union Local played alright, I thought, but we’ve got to play better to compete with anybody, and the disheartening thing is we didn’t compete tonight at all.”

In addition to her 25 points, Porter added five steals, four assists and three blocked shots. Hannah Porter added nine and Allison Loase five.

Asia Muckle had eight points to lead Harrison Central. Morgan Carter chipped in five.

Union Local travels to Martins Ferry on Monday. The Huskies entertain Brooke on Saturday.

Union Local 65, Harrison Central 28

HC     2 8 8 10 – 28

UL     16 18 18 13 – 65

HARRISON CENTRAL: Wiley 0 0-0 0; Yoho 2 0-0 4; M. Carter 2 0-0 5; Ab. Dowdle 1 0-0 3; Morrison 1 0-0 2; Starr 2 0-2 4; McAfee 0 0-0 0; L. Carter 0 0-0 0; Mencer 0 0-0 0; Al. Dowdle 1 0-0 2; Muckle 3 2-4 8. TOTALS: 12 2-6 28. 3-pointers: M. Carter, Ab. Dowdle.

UNION LOCAL: Hal. Porter 10 1-2 25; Han. Porter 2 4-4 9; Clark-Patterson 4 2-2 10; Robb 0 0-2 0; McGary 1 0-2 2; Butler 0 2-2 2; Loase 1 3-4 5; Mercer 0 0-0 0; Menges 5 2-2 12; Bateman 0 0-0 0; Brandon 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 23 14-20 65. 3-pointers: Hal. Porter 4, Han. Porter.

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