Union City Lady Indians fall to Union County

Union City Lady Indians unable to overcome slow first half in loss to Union County

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Coach Black spends a timeout encouraging her Lady Indians in game with Union County. (provided photo)

LIBERTY, IN – The Union City Lady Indians dropped a 48-34 road game to the Union County Lady Patriots.

A sluggish Union City start made for a tale of two halves as the home standing Lady Patriots would grab a double digit 18-10 first quarter lead and never look back.

Period No. 2 was no kinder to Union City as the Union County ladies took the quarter 15-6 sending the teams to the break with the Lady Indians trailing 33-14.

Union City battled back to take the third quarter 9-5 and the final period 11-10 to win the second half 20-15 while coming up short in the game.

Union City was led by Oaklee Reichard with 14 points, 7 rebounds, 5 steals and 5 assists. Evans added 10 points and Fischer 6 rebounds.

The Lady Indians JV also lost to Union County. Jones – 2 points 3 rebounds 2 steals, Mata- 2 points 3 rebounds 1 steal, Kerns- 2 points 7 rebounds.

The UC Lady Indians varsity team stands at 8-12 on the season and will play next Saturday, at Home against Wapahani.

BOXSCORE:

UNION COUNTY 48, UNION CITY 34

UNION COUNTY – S. Hill 19, A. Gray 5, B. Fields 5, C. McCashland 5, P. Gillman 5, H. Hughes 5, K. McCashland 1 – TOTALS 13 10-16 4 48

UNION CITY – O. Reichard 14, E. Evans 10, A. Black 4, C. Fischer 4, G. Ordonez 2 – TOTALS 11 3-8 3 34

3-POINTERS

Union County – 4 (A. Gray 1, B. Fields 1, C. McCashland 1, P. Gillman 1)

Union City – 3 (E. Evans 2, O. Reichard 1)

SCORE by QUARTERS

18-15-05-10 48 Union County

08-06-09-11 34 Union City