BANGOR – For the second game – and second day – in a row, the John Bapst girls basketball team played extremely tough second-quarter defense.

Add in 23 points from senior forward Hillary Laferriere and the Crusaders also got another win, pulling away for a 42-28 victory over Old Town Thursday night at the Bangor Auditorium.

John Bapst, now 13-1, held the Coyotes to 13 points in the first half. MDI scored just 14 against the Crusaders Wednesday in a 47-39 John Bapst win.

Bapst started Thursday in a triangle-and-2 defense with guards on Old Town standouts Jenna King and Sarah Wilcox. King, whom Old Town coach Alan Brownewell said is sick with the flu, hit a 3-pointer in the second minute of the game and Wilcox made a driving jumper for a 5-2 lead.

Bapst came out of that defense midway through the first quarter and went to man.

It took some time to click, but the Coyotes managed just one second-quarter field goal and didn’t get to the free-throw line.

“They weren’t letting us get to the hoop,” Brownewell said. “They were daring us to take the outside shot. We passed up too many shots and I don’t know why.”

Crusader guards Morgan Chasse and Samantha Maquillan helped shut down King, whose 3-pointer was her only basket of the game. She averages around 12 points per game.

“We had to have a hand in her face to make sure that she didn’t shoot the ball,” Chasse said. “I think we worked well as a team tonight. We communicated well.”

Laferriere provided the offense for Bapst, scoring 11 points in a 13-0 second-quarter run that erased Old Town’s 11-7 first-quarter lead.

Chasse, coming off a 21-point performance against the Trojans, hit a jumper to pull the Crusaders to within two points early in the second. Old Town’s Nicole Guay scored with 5:49 left, the final basket of the quarter for the 7-5 Coyotes.

It was almost all Laferriere from there. She put back offense rebounds, got passes from her teammates and converted one of the two conventional 3-point plays she drew. Chasse, who finished with eight points, also scored during the run.

Laferriere was scoreless in the first quarter.

“I don’t think they did anything else [differently],” Laferriere said of her second-quarter outburst.

Rebounding was key in the stretch. Bapst had just a 5-4 edge on the boards in the first quarter but grabbed 12 rebounds in the second while limiting Old Town to two.

Laferriere had seven rebounds in the quarter and Brianna Hardy came off the bench to pull down four, two of which led to Bapst baskets.

“I just wanted to play and prove myself with rebounds,” said Hardy, who finished with six rebounds. “We were more patient, which calms us down and makes the other team play defense.”

John Bapst outscored Old Town 8-5 in the third quarter, a change from Wednesday’s game against the Trojans in which MDI had a 16-10 edge in that period.

Rebecca Taylor led Old Town with nine points. The 5-foot-11 center-forward went 2-for-2 from 3-point range.

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CRUSADERS 42, COYOTES 28

Old Town (7-5) John Bapst (13-1)

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

St. Louis 0 0 3 4 3 Jordan 3 10 6

Guay 1 3 0 0 2 Chasse 4 12 0 8

Randall 1 3 0 0 2 Myerowitz 0 0

Wilcox 3 7 0 0 6 Hardy 0 1 0

Goodwin 1 7 1 2 3 Moriarty 0 0

Brown 0 0 0 0 0 Maquillan 0 0

Gammon 0 0 0 0 0 Estes 1 1 4

King 1 2 0 0 3 Gormley 0 0 1 1

Taylor 3 3 1 2 9 Nelson 0 0 0

Laferriere 10 16 23

Totals 10 25 5 8 28 Totals 18 41 12 42

Old Town 11 13 18 28

John Bapst 7 22 30 42

3-pt. goals – Old Town (3-5): Taylor 2-2, King 1-1, Goodwin 0-2; John Bapst (0-2): Jordan 0-2

JV: John Bapst 40-32

Attendance: 300 (est.)