Shelbyville Lady Golden Bears Basketball

The Lady Golden Bears lose to Greenfield-Central Tuesday Night at Garrett Gymnasium 49-33. That moves thier record to: (2-4 overall & 0-3 in HHC play). They are on a three game losing streak. The Lady Bears was led in scoring by Chelsey Skipton 10, Caitlin Mills 9, & Ashley Bush 5. The Greenfield-Central was led in scoring by LaRae Cruz 15, Kyra Tweedy 10, Katie Peters 9. The JV Team moved thier record to (4-2) with a win over Greefield-Central 39-31. Allison Gobel led the the lady JV team with 10 points. The Lady Bears are back in action Saturday Afternoon when they host Batesville. JV tipoff is at 1 PM. & Varsity tipoff is at 2:30 PM.

The Lady Golden Bears lose to Greenfield-Central : (3-3 overall & 1-1 in HHC play) Tuesday Night at Garrett Gymnasium 49-33. That moves the Lady Bears record to: (2-4 overall & 0-3 in HHC play). They are on a three game losing streak. The Lady Bears was led in scoring by Chelsey Skipton 10, Caitlin Mills 9, & Ashley Bush 5. The Greenfield-Central was led in scoring by LaRae Cruz 15, Kyra Tweedy 10, Katie Peters 9. The JV Team moved thier record to (4-2) with a win over Greefield-Central 39-31. Allison Gobel led the the lady JV team with 10 points. The Lady Bears are back in action Saturday Afternoon when they host Batesville. JV tipoff is at 1 PM. & Varsity tipoff is at 2:30 PM.

By Jeff Brown
Sports editor

PENDLETON — Maybe Shari Doud bans her Lady Arabians from eating a big Thanksgiving dinner until the weekend? Maybe she makes them show up early Friday morning to shake off a couple of helpings of turkey and all that pumpkin pie?

Whatever it is, Doud had Pendleton Heights ready for its Hoosier Heritage Conference encounter with Shelbyville Friday night, while the Lady Golden Bears looked like an extra couple of biscuits past groggy.

Pendleton Heights raced out to a 12-0 lead while Shelbyville missed its first seven shots and committed five turnovers before getting on the scoreboard. After that, the Lady Arabians cruised to a 62-27 victory Friday night.

Hannah Douglas led the Lady Arabians, now 6-0 (2-0 HHC), with 15 points. Krosley Ogden had 12 points and four steals. And Jamie Hubble finished with 10, thanks to a pair of 3-pointers made..

Shelbyville (2-3) got six points each from Chelsey Skipton and Raven Hibbard.

After the Lady Arabians got on the scoreboard with a Hubble's 3-pointer, Doud, now in her 10th season as head coach at Pendleton Heights, turned up the pressure with the program's traditional three-quarter court trapping defense. That sped up the Lady Golden Bears and led to 10 first-quarter turnovers and 21 by halftime.

Shelbyville hit just two of 15 shots from the field over the opening 16 minutes and trailed 40-9 at halftime.

"We had a tough game on Tuesday (at Columbus North) where we played our hearts out," said Shelbyville coach Amanda Norris. "It showed on Wednesday when we were exhausted. I hated to have a Thanksgiving day practice but we had one Thanksgiving morning, and the intensity was not there. We practice pretty poorly. I think the girls are just tired."

Without having to deal with the Lady Arabians' pressure in the second half, Shelbyville settled down and battled over the final 16 minutes.

"We grew from the first half to the second half," said Norris. "I thought if we brought the second-half team to the first half, we could have been in this game. We came in flat against a team with too much talent."

Shelbyville had just five second-half turnovers and got a pair of fourth-quarter 3s from Hibbard to pull a little energy from the team late.

"Last year our team would go into halftime and talk and come back out and show no emotion," said Norris. "Today, the girls gathered themselves and named what they needed to do better on. They gave a good assessment and we made some changes that allowed us to do a much better job in the second half."

Pendleton Heights won the junior varsity contest 26-23.

Rachelle Tibbett led the Lady Arabians with eight points. Riley Achenbach topped Shelbyville (3-2) with six points before getting injured late in the game.