BW girls open with wins over Licking Heights, Franklin Heights

News Staff Reports

Big Wal­nut found its defen­sive form after allow­ing a 17-point first quar­ter, allow­ing just 12 points the rest of the way en route to a 49–29 non-league win over Lick­ing Heights Tues­day evening in Sunbury.

Down 17–9 after one, the Golden Eagles (2–0) outscored the vis­i­tors 8–2 in the sec­ond, 11–4 in the third and 21–6 in the fourth.

Junior post Sky­lar Fleak led the way for the Golden Eagles with 12 points and eight rebounds in the win. Senior guard Saman­tha Klinedinst fol­lowed Fleak in dou­ble fig­ures with 10 points while junior post Sara Petty fol­lowed with 9 points.

BIG WALNUT 61, FRANKLIN HEIGHTS 27 — The Golden Eagles were solid in their 2012–13 sea­son opener last Fri­day night, dom­i­nat­ing the host Fal­cons 61–27 in the sea­son and Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion opener for both teams in Columbus.

Aside from a slight speed bump in the sec­ond quar­ter, Bob Scott’s Golden Eagles dom­i­nated as they jumped out to an 18–6 first-quarter lead. After break­ing even with Heights in an 11–11 sec­ond quar­ter, Big Wal­nut (1–0) came back out after the inter­mis­sion and put together a 16–6 spree in the third period to open up a 45–23 lead going into the final 8 minutes.

Senior for­ward Emily Chucta led the Eagles with 14 points. Junior post Sara Petty joined Chucta in dou­ble fig­ures with 11 points while junior post Sky­lar Fleak and sopho­more guard Makenna Ham­mond fol­lowed with 9 points apiece. Nine play­ers scored for Big Walnut.

Cierra Thomas paced Franklin Heights (0–1) with 11 points.

Posted by Gary Henery on Dec 5 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.