LHS girls bounce back

Three Lady Raiders scored in double figures and helped ensure Lomega wouldn’t begin a losing streak.

Class B’s second-ranked team bounced back from last weekend’s loss to No. 1 Hammon by throttling Cherokee 73-46 at home.

“We wanted to bounce back strong and I feel like we did that against a team that had been playing pretty well.”

Cherokee entered the night having won six of its last seven games, but was trailing 33-17 at halftime after a big second-quarter burst by Lomega.

The Lady Raiders put the game away with a 21-10 run in the third quarter to improve to 13-3.

The Lady Chiefs had trouble maintaining the likes of Emma Duffy and Courtney Fox.

Duffy scored 19 points. She had seven in the first quarter and eight more in the third and knocked down a trio of 3-pointers.

Fox also had three 3-pointers and finished her night with 17 points.

Lomega knocked down 10 total shots from beyond the arc.

Shelby Russell contributed 10 points while Mady Meier and Megan Dunigan scored eight points apiece.

Cherokee was led by Lizzy Webster’s 20 points, 10 of which came in the fourth quarter.

Chiefs’ defense

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Cherokee’s boys enter this week’s Cherokee Strip Conference Tournament as the No. 1 seed.

They flexed some of that muscle, especially on the defensive end, by defeating Lomega 52-46 on Tuesday night.

The Raiders, who dropped to 10-6, were limited to single digits in three of the four quarters.

“They’re long and athletic,” said coach Justin Edsall of the Chiefs. “That’s part of what makes them so tough.”

Still, Lomega stayed in the game and was within three points entering the fourth quarter.

That’s when the Chiefs closed on a 17-6 run.

Lake Lyon helped extend the lead by making 7 of 8 free throws in the fourth. He finished the night with 12 points. Kade Chace led the team with 15.

Lomega got 14 points from Riley Lumpkin, eight of them in the third quarter.

Brock Mowery scored 10 and Noah Snowden nine.