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Grace Kingery showed why she is our heavy favorite to not only win SWC Player of the Year but also Lorain County Player of the Year with a dominant 38 point double rebound performance in North Ridgeville’s 63-47 victory over Lakewood today. Kingery controlled every aspect of the game with superb defense, crashing the boards, blocking shots and creating steals with aggressive play. She even hit several three pointers from a different zip code. If the plan is to send her to the line, that doesn’t work either as she went 7 of 7 from the charity stripe today too.
Her play right now is leading a very dangerous North Ridgeville team that some may be overlooking and shouldn’t be! The only losses this team has suffered is to State Contenders Strongsville, Medina and Olmsted Falls. The Rangers play Avon Lake this Wednesday night, and I will be there to cover it for Kee On Sports. Some would say, and I would agree, this is the best coaching Head Coach Amy Esser has ever done.
The North Ridgeville Rangers were helped by 9 points from the determined and driven Brook Lime, 8 from CC Bouman who sunk 6 of those from the foul line and 3 from the sharpshooting Reyna Balderas. Maddie Eldridge and Macie Miller finished with 2 each while Adrianna Brown had 1.
Lakewood fought hard all game and had some nice surges in the second and fourth quarter. They also shot well from the line going 11 of 14. Lakewood was paced by Layla Smith with 17 and Charleigh Doxley with 12. Delaney Garcia finished with 8, Sophia Zarbo had 6 while Elizabeth Doup and Ally Bookman had 2 each.
CC Bouman hit three foul shots while Kingery nailed a couple from the paint to hand the North Ridgeville Rangers a 7-4 lead at the 4-minute mark of action. Shortly after that, aggressive defense and a steal by Kingery led to a full court run out that Lime connected on for two more, making it 9-4. Lime is no stranger to driving to the lane with force and precision. She did it again a few minutes after that to draw another Lakewood foul. The fantastic Kingery and Lime combination continued to be a force as North Ridgeville led Lakewood 17-6 after one.
More aggressive play and some sharp shooting by Balderas, sparked the North Ridgeville Rangers to start the second quarter on a 11-0 run to extend the lead to 28-6 early into the second. A Smith foul shot stopped the run at the 5:21 mark. This sparked a Lakewood run, as they poured it on with Smith and Doxley hitting back-to-back threes following a Garcia bucket, and suddenly it was 28-15. From there, Kingery went coast to coast, drawing the foul, sinking both shots, and calming things down. North Ridgeville would take a 35-19 lead into the break.
After Lakewood scored first to begin the second half, Kingery hit a three seconds later to answer. A few moments later, Kingery followed a teammate miss at a three, by cutting to the baseline where Bouman who got the rebound off the miss, found her cutting to the hoop for another bucket. Kingery was everywhere today.
Kingery was just getting heated up as on the next Ranger possession, she dribbled around the three-point line, found the perfect angle, stopped, dropped and popped! This made it 43-21 with 5:01 left in the quarter. Lakewood tried fouling Kingery the next time she had the ball, and even with a school bell going off ( it’s on a timer, nothing anyone did intentionally) and then fans screaming, it didn’t matter as she calmy nailed both shots. North Ridgeville cruised from there to hold a 54-28 lead after three.
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