GREENVILLE – The Lady Wave struggled to get the ball to drop with the Troy Lady Trojans in town for a Wednesday night MVL matchup falling to the visitors 35-22.
“When you can’t score the basketball it’s going to be a hard time winning,” said Greenville coach, Rachael Kerns. “Defensively they didn’t give up very many points. Not a lack of effort, we did a lot of really good things.”
The Lady Wave jumped out to a 7-2 lead in the opening 90 seconds of play only to have the visitors take the rest of the contest by a 33-15 score.
Greenville held a 7-6 lead after one quarter of play with Troy battling back with a 12-6 second-quarter score to lead 18-13 with the teams headed to the halftime break.
Period No. 3 was not kind to either team at their respective offensive ends of the court as the Lady Trojans would hit a basket and go 2-4 at the line while Greenville knocked down a bucket to go 0-4 at the charity stripe for a 22-15 Troy lead with one period to play.
Greenville was forced to send Troy to the fourth-quarter free throw line in an attempt to get back in the game but came up short with the Lady Trojans taking advantage of 9-12 fourth-quarter free throw shooting while Greenville was 2-4 at the line.
“We had to foul a little but when you’re 7-of 51 from the floor you’re not going to win many basketball games,” Kerns stated. “When you get 51 shots off a lot of times things are going to go in your favor but we didn’t come out and compete for four quarters tonight.”
Troy was 12-22 at the charity stripe on the night while Greenville was 7-19 at the line.
BOXSCORE:
TROY 35, GREENVILLE 22
TROY – J. Almeida 8, K. Baker 7, P. Brewer 6, A. Bolden 4, Brooks 4, S. Adekoya 4, J. Smith 2 – TOTALS 10 12-22 1 35
GREENVILLE – M. Loudy 7, M. Lind 6, A. Baumann 4, S. Loudy 4, B. Schmidt 1 – TOTALS 6 7-19 1 22
3-POINTERS
Troy 1 (J. Almeida 1)
Greenville 1 (M. Loudy 1)
SCORE by QUARTERS
06-12-04-13 35 Troy
07-06-02-07 22 Greenville
