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AMHERST, OH – The Lady Comets rallied back from a 41-26 deficit to make it close in the fourth before ultimately falling to the North Ridgeville Rangers 51-45. This win improves the Rangers to a red hot 4-0 start. They will look to stay hot as they host Midview on Friday night. While the Comets fall to 1-2 and get a bit of a break before hosting Midview next Wednesday.
The Rangers saw big efforts offensively from Reyna Balderas with 15 and Brooke Schroeder with 11 while Lauryn Bohannan had 9. Also scoring for the Rangers was Adri Spyres with 7 while Mary Strippy had 4 and Sav Kreilach scored 3. The scoring was rounded out by Maddie Kuhn with 2.
For the Comets, they were led by Ashlyn Berrt with 11 as Grace Bender finished with 10 and Amalee Caldera scored 7. Scoring 4 each was Sara Iliff and Abby Broaddus and Callie Beckler scored 5 while Lymer and Bey scored 2 each.
The Comets ran a little give and go for the first points of the game coming from Lymer before the Rangers could answer quickly with a bucket by Schroeder with a beautiful right-handed floater. A Strippy drive on their next possession gave the Rangers her first lead of the game before a bucket by Bender tied it back at 4.
The game would tie itself again at 6 before the Rangers went on a 11-6 run to end the quarter. Highlighted by a fast break bucket by Balderas along with a three from the fiesta senior only a moment later as the Rangers took a 17-12 lead into the second.
The Rangers started the second quarter with a quick bucket from Schroeder to balloon the lead up to 19-12. From there a banked three ball from Iliff crept it within five before another bucket made it 19-17 Rangers and closed it to a two-point game. From there, however, it was all Rangers as they closed out the half on a run to pull away with a 29-22 lead at the break. The big hitters coming from a Balderas three ball and 4 points from Bohannan.
The game remained 29-22 Rangers for nearly the first 3 minutes of the second half before a Spyres bucket for the Rangers got them started again. Increasing the lead to 31-22 over the Comets. After a Balderas bucket gave the Rangers their largest lead of the game at 33-22, the Comets scored their first points of the second half with 4 minutes already gone on a Caldera bucket to get it within single digits before Schroeder answered right away with a hoop seconds later to keep the Ranger lead at 12 by a score of 36-24 with 3:49 to play in the third.
Up 12 with a little over 3 minutes left in the third, the Rangers knew they could put a stranglehold on the game with a strong finish to the quarter. A Spyres three from the corner extended the Ranger lead to 41- 26 with 1:18 left in the third, handing them a 15 point lead. Then went on to win 51-45.
