By Cort Reynolds
RAWSON - The Ada girls basketball team tipped off its campaign with a decisive 64-31 win at non-league local foe Cory-Rawson Tuesday night.
Junior Maddie Gossard led the Lady Bulldogs (1-0) with a varsity career-high 21 points. Classmate guard Teara Coulson contributed a dozen markers, and each canned a pair of three-point field goals.
The Lady Hornets fell to 0-3 with the loss in their home opener.
The Bulldogs rolled to a 30-9 halftime lead, then cruised to victory with 34 second half markers.
Ada senior guard Haley Wyss contributed a team-high nine rebounds and eight points. Bulldog junior guard Sydney Newland added nine points and one trey.
Brittany Roth topped Cory with 12 points. C-R out-rebounded Ada, 39-34. But the Hornets committed 23 turnovers to just nine by the Bulldogs.
The victors connected on 38 percent from the field and 68 percent at the foul line. Cold-shooting C-R hit on just 24 percent of its shots from the floor, and made a mere 15 percent from the charity stripe.
The Bulldogs sank five trifectas compared to three treys by the Hornets.
Ada also won the reserve contest, 26-13.
Ada 64 (1-0)
M. Gossard 7-5-21, Coulson 5-0-12, Wyss 2-4-8, Vore 2-0-4, Archer 2-3-7, Newland 3-2-9, England 0-1-1, Conley 1-0-2, S. Gossard 0.
Totals: 22-58/15-22/64. 3-pointers (5-24): M. Gossard 2, Coulson 2, Newland 1.
Cory-Rawson 31 (0-3)
B. Roth 5-1-12, Traucht 1-0-2, Waltz 1-0-2, Green 0-1-1, Biery 4-0-8, S. Roth 2-0-6.
Totals: 13-54/2-13/31. 3-pointers (3-16): S. Roth 2, B. Roth 1).
1 2 3 4 F
Ada 19 11 13 21 64
C-R 7 2 9 13 31
JV: Ada 26, C-R 13.
Ada hosts NWC favorite Columbus Grove (1-0) Thursday, December 8 in the league and home opener. Grove crushed visiting Shawnee 66-29 in its lidlifter Tuesday night.
