AUGUSTA — The Skowhegan girls basketball team knows how to spoil a senior night.
Thanks to a big third quarter, the River Hawks handled Cony 55-36 in a Class A North game Tuesday night. Skowhegan — the No. 1 seed in the region — improved to 17-0. Cony fell to 10-6.
Callaway LePage led the way for Skowhegan, scoring 25 points while grabbing 14 rebounds. Jaycie Christopher had 14 points, seven rebounds and six assists.
“We knew it wasn’t going to be easy,” LePage said. “We’re coming in, it’s (Cony’s) senior night, no away fans. They had a good, rowdy crowd and we had to adapt to that.”
Both teams had struggles with turnovers in the first half. For Skowhegan, LePage kept the team in check offensively, scoring 14 points and grabbing five rebounds in the first half alone.
Indiya Clarke kept Cony within distance, scoring 10 points in the first half. But Clarke suffered an injury going after a loose ball late in the half and sat out the rest of the contest.
“It’s a tough thing for us to see kids go down all the time,” Cony coach Adam Rich said. “I know it’s a morale thing. Seeing that tonight, we were playing really well and I think that changed our momentum a little bit. But I’ll give the kids credit, they just battled. That’s what they do. They’re strong willed, and they showed that tonight.”
Skowhegan took advantage, outscoring Cony 17-4 in the third quarter. It then took a 48-27 lead into the fourth.
“We didn’t match (Cony’s) physicality very well,” Skowhegan coach Mike LeBlanc said. “Once they started limiting their number with the injuries, we took advantage it. I don’t like to take advantage of it. We did respond well to that, got a little more physical and ran the floor a little better.”
Sierra Prebit, who provided a spark on both ends of the floor for the Rams, finished with seven points. Cony honored seniors Prebit, Clarke, Raegan Bechard, Emma Doiron, Reilly Fleck, Kristen Kirk and Alyssa Redman.
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