By Cort Reynolds

MARION - The visiting Ada High School girls basketball team lost to non-conference foe Marion Elgin 49-26 Saturday evening, December 28.

The defeat dropped the Bulldog record to 1-8 overall. The Comet girls improved to 6-4 after the home victory.

The Bulldogs trailed 13-2 after the first period. Elgin posted a 12-7 second period to lead 25-9 at halftime.  

A Comet 17-2 third period put the game well out of reach, 42-11. Ada rebounded to win the fourth stanza, 15-7.

Ada junior post Anna Conley scored all seven Bulldog points in the second stanza. She finished with nine markers.

Sophomore guard Kenley Poling tallied five points, and Ashley Hevlin added four. Grace Lawrence sank a fourth period triple for her first varsity points.

Comets Emily Bishop and Maycee Muselin scored 12 points apiece. Jordan Wall contributed 11 markers. Muselin tallied eight points in the third period.

The Bulldog girls connected on eight two-point field goals and splashed three triples. Ada converted one of four foul shots (25 percent). 

The host Comets canned 13 two-point goals and drilled seven trifectas. Elgin made two of four foul shots (50 percent).

Ada (0-4 BVC) plays at new league foe Arcadia (7-2, 3-2 BVC) Thursday, January 2.

The Bulldogs host Waynesfield-Goshen (6-4) Saturday, January 4. The Tigers are led by senior six-footers Tatelyn Faraglia and Raegan Hutchison under new head coach Brent Farley.

No JV game.

Ada 26 (1-8)
Lawrence 1 0-0 3, K. Poling 2 0-0 5, Gibson DNP, L. Poling 1 0-0 3, Hevlin 2 0-2 4, Burns 0 0-0 0, Conley 4 1-2 9, Andreasen 1 0-0 2.
Totals: 8-3/1-4/26. 3-pointers: L. Poling, Lawrence 1, K. Poling 1.

Elgin 49 (6-4)
Boles 2 1-2 6, Hill 1 0-0 2, Wall 4 0-0 11, Kedcil 1 0-0 2, Muselin 6 0-0 12, Stutler 2 0-0 4, Bishop 4 1-2 12.

Totals: 13-7/2-4/49. 3-pointers: Wall 3, Bishop 3 Boles 1.

PHOTOS below by Mark Andreasen