Live Blog-Cast: Girls Basketball – South Hadley at Monson – Halftime, Mustangs 26, Tigers 12

End 2nd quarter: Jump ball with 1:16 left gives Monson possession. Metzger scores with 1:00 left and it’s 26-12 Monson. Tigers miss a shot and Monson takes over with 34 seconds left. Mustangs miss and the Tigers get a chance with time dwindling and lose the ball with 2 seconds left for traveling. Monson misses a long shot but it looks like they have this game well in hand as we go to half time with the score Monson 26, South Hadley 12.

2:01 2nd quarter: Murphy steals after the timeout and gets fouled going to the hoop. She will shoot two. She makes one and Monson is is doubling up on South Hadley 20-10. Metzger steals and scores and it’s 22-10. 5:22 left in the 2nd and the Tigers get a jump ball in their favor. Aggressive move by the Tigers’ Casey O’Connor and she charges for the lay up and draws the foul, but fails on the three-point play and it’s 22-12 Monson. Tigers steal on the other end and they take over. Monson steals it back. Boyle an impressive turnaround hook and it’s 24-12 with 3:37 left. Rebound for Monson and then a Tiger steal and there is a lot of back and forth action so far tonight with Monson getting the better shooting for the score difference.

Good passing Monson but Murphy misses a shot with 2:01 left. Score is still 24-12.

6:16 2nd quarter: Boyle is fouled to start the 2nd. She makes the first shot but misses and the second and has three points now for the night. South Hadley with the ball now and Monson leads 15-10. Blocked shot by Boyle and Monson steals. Murphy misses for three and the Tigers again have the ball. A missed shot and back to Monson’s end where Boyle scores for five points on the evening and a 17-10 lead. Steal for Murphy and Monson leads 19-10. Timeout on the court with 6:16 left.

End 1st quarter: Metzger makes one shot and South Hadley follows up with a basket and a steal, score is now 10-8 Monson with 1:10 left. Monson steal and Brooke Murphy gets the open break to make it 12-8. Tigers with the ball. Three-point attempt fails and Monson rebounds. Good pressure from the Mustangs, but the Tigers grab another basket with 10 seconds left. Danielle Muirhead scores to end the 1st for Monson. The Mustangs lead 14-10.

2:12 1st quarter: South Hadley gets a pair of free throws and makes one to tie the score. The Tigers are really given Monson a hard time to start the game. They are showing to be much better than their 7-11 record suggests. Boyle rebounds with 3:50 left and two passes later scores her first two points of the game to make it 6-4 Monson. I should note that South Hadley is looking thin tonight with just eight players dressed for varsity action tonight.

Back to the action as Monson misses a three-pointer and we’re inside 3:00. The Mustangs get a rebound and Katelyn Metzger hits for three from the top of the circle to make it 9-4 Monson. The Tigers get a lay up to make it 9-6. Metzger draws a foul with 2:12 left in the quarter.

Game start: Meghan Boyle beings tonight’s action with 13-5 Monson just 61 points away from 1,000 points entering tonight with 939 points. She was honored earlier tonight as one of the top players in school history, coming in near the top in many statistical categories.

Let’s get the game action underway. Monson starts off with a basket and leads 2-0. Both teams then struggle exchanging possession for well over a minute as we get to 6:38 in the 1st. Boyle intercepts a pass and Monson takes over. South Hadley gets a defensive rebound and we still only have a 2-0 lead for Monson. A long three-pointer attempt goes over the glass and Monson takes over. Steal from South Hadley and we’re going up and down the court with 5:22 left. The Tigers break through with a three-pointer followed by a basket by Monson making it 4-3 Monson with 4:42 left in the quarter.

South Hadley’s JV defeats Monson JV 47-41 in overtime. Game upcoming at about 7:20 p.m.

Pre-game Update: It looks like we will be delayed with the start of tonight’s game as we were scheduled for a 7:00 game time. However, the junior varsity match up has just gone to overtime at 6:52 p.m. We’ll get the blog-cast going just as soon as the varsity teams head into action.

South Hadley Roster
# Name Pos. YR
10 Lindsay Connor G Soph.
11 Madeline Dowd G JR.
12 Casey O’Connor F JR.
13 Mia Scagliarini G Soph.
14 Lauren Barthlette G JR.
22 Janelle Seitz G Soph.
24 Emily Abert G Soph.
32 Melissa Rosskothen G Soph.
34 Megan Lynes F FR.
50 Jessica Mercier C JR.

Monson Roster

#4 Jessica Knochel
#5 Melissa Harris
#10 Angie Petrisis
#11 Kalli Arbour
#12 Katelyn Metzger
#13 Brooke Murphy
#14 Meghan Boyle
#21 Danielle Muirhead
#22 Sophie Gustafson
#23 Courtney O’Connor

Pre-game: Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to tonight’s blog-cast of the girls basketball match up between South Hadley High School and host Monson High School.

I’m Turley Publications correspondent Greg Scibelli and I am live at Monson High School bringing you the action tonight courtesy of Turley Publications, the best source for local news in Western Massachusetts.

We have a great match up tonight as Monson seeks it’s 14th win and Meghan Boyle seeks to move closer to her 1,000th career point.

The lineups and more coming up shortly.

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