Lady Eagles continue to rack up wins

The Vermilion Catholic Lady Eagles have done one thing pretty well this season, and that’s winning basketball games.

That was no different, even though they had to work for this win, Monday night as they defeated Midland by the final score of 44-37.

“We knew they would make a run at us and they did in the third,” Head Coach Kim Guidry said. “I’m just proud of the way they weathered the run and were able to turn it around and get us the win.”

The first half saw the Lady Eagles doing what they do best, taking a big lead and walking away with a victory.

At halftime, the Lady Eagles led Midland 26-16, and it looked as though this game was over at halftime.

Midland thought otherwise.

Midland came out and scored 12 points in the third quarter, behind the eight points of Macy Hoffpauir.

Along with the offense coming out swinging, the defense stepped up in a big way and held the Lady Eagles to only two points in the entire quarter.

Heading into the fourth quarter, the Lady Eagles lost their 10 point lead and found themselves tied at 28-28 heading into the fourth quarter.

In the fourth quarter, the Lady Eagles we are used to seeing came out.

VC scored 16 points in the fourth quarter behind 10 points from Ashailee Brailey and Kaylen Collins combined.

The defense also stepped up and only allowed Midland to score nine points, giving VC the 44-37 victory.

Leading the charge for the Lady Eagles on the offensive side of things was Kaylen Collins and Ashailee Brailey.

They both scored a team and game high 16 points.

Katie Frith was able to get in on the scoring action by adding eight points of her own.

Lexi Langlinais added two free throws in the fourth quarter.

Ellen Langlinais and Leah Camel rounded out the scoring for the Lady Eagles with one point apiece.

The Lady Eagles record now stands at 20-3 overall and 5-1 in district play.

The Lady Eagles will return to the court on Friday as they play host to Hanson.

There is a strong possiblitly they will be without their leading scorer and starting point guard Ashailee Brailey.

Brailey went down in the fourth quarter with an apparent ankle injury.

The extent of the injury is unknown as of now.

Andy Bullard
Sports Editor