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ROCKLAND – When the Mount View girls basketball team clicks on offense – as in, gets the ball to its strong inside players for easy baskets – things go very well for the Mustangs. When they come out of the plan, well, things can be a bit uneven.
Mount View of Thorndike used a third-quarter surge to open up its Tuesday evening game against Rockland and earn a 54-34 victory over the Tigers in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference matchup at the high school gym here.
“When we play within our offense we play well. When we leave our offense we play terrible and that’s why we’ve struggled this year,” said Charlie Wing, coach of the 9-4 Mustangs. “In the third period we got back into our offense and that’s when we broke it open.”
The Mustangs’ inside duo of 5-foot-9 forward Kim Stevens (17 points) and 5-10 center Heather Carter (14) led the team, and Danielle Mayer chipped in with 13.
Stevens and Carter combined for 10 points in the third quarter as the Mustangs made their push. After Rockland’s Stacey Marcotte opened the second half with a basket off a pass from Caitlin Grant to cut Mount View’s lead to six points, the Mustangs went on a 13-0 run and emerged with a 43-24 lead.
Mayer had three assists during the surge, which ended with a Rockland basket by Cassie Moore with 3:36 left in the third quarter.
At halftime, Stephens said, Wing reminded the squad to get back into its slower style of offense.
“They were running the ball on us and what we were doing just wasn’t clicking,” she said. “We slowed it up, tried to run our game, get some [shots] inside and some outside.”
The Tigers held Mount View to just one point in the final minutes of the third but couldn’t answer on the offensive end.
The Mustangs shot 24-for-48 (50 percent) from the field, a solid effort but not surprising as much of their offense comes off of layups. Stevens, Mayer and Carter combined for 22 rebounds, which is key for Mount View in order to control the post.
“Our offense is good, we get the ball inside, but rebounding is our biggest thing. It keeps us in games,” Carter said.
Rockland started the game strong, which coach Karen Bickmore said was an improvement from other slow starts from the Tigers this season. They never led, but they did tie the game five times in the first quarter and were down 17-15 at the end of the period.
Mount View opened the second quarter with seven unanswered points, but Grant hit a 3-pointer to end Rockland’s drought and the Tigers were within eight points at the half.
“They came out with the purpose and the intent of coming out strong,” Bickmore said. “We managed to do that. We had two turnovers in the first quarter and seven in the second and that made a big difference. It cut down on our shot production.”
Grant, a 5-9 junior, had 11 points, 11 rebounds and four steals for the Tigers, who fall to 0-13.
Mustangs 54, Tigers 34
Mount View (9-4) Rockland (0-13)
Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG F AF TP
Goehringer 2 3 0 0 5 Fournier 3 7
Mayer 6 19 0 1 13 Moore 2 5 0 4
Coddington 2 4 0 0 5 C. Grant 2 4
Barnard 0 0 0 0 0 Marcotte 2 7 6
Arute 0 0 0 0 0 Clark 1 5 0 2
Swanson 0 0 0 0 0 L. Grant 5 17 11
Carter 7 10 0 1 14 Pennell 0 6 0 0
Stevens 7 12 3 4 17
Totals 24 48 3 6 54 Totals 15 54 2 34
Mount View 17 30 44 54
Rockland 15 22 28 34
3-pt. goals: Mount View 3-4: Goehringer 1-1, Mayer 1-1, Coddington 1-2; Rockland 2-6: L. Grant 1-1, Fournier 1-2, C. Grant 0-1, Marcotte 0-1, Pennell 0-1
Attendance: 250 (est.)
Preliminary: Mount View JVs 46-39
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