In what is a rough start on a Clinton County Lady Bulldog season, the team has compiled an 1-3 overall record, after coming off of an 1-2 run last week in two road games and one home stand.

Last week’s games included seeing the Lady Dawgs pick up it’s first victory of the year in a vwery nice 48-42 win against the Monroe County Lady Falcons, on the Monroe County hardwood, a venue that is always a nearly impossible one to collect a win on.

In it’s other two outings last week, the Lady Bulldogs fell behind early and were never able to catch up in either instance, losing to Metcalfe County in the Castle on Friday night, 78-41, and giving up another loss on Saturday afternoon against Greenwood on the Gators’ home floor, 58-44.

Clinton County – 48

Monroe County -42

Clinton County’s floor shooting was slightly off in the early minutes of last Tuesday night’s (December 4) contest against Monroe County, with the Lady Falcons jumping out to a 2-0 lead, and the Lady Buldogs playing until the 5:15 mark before finally answering to tie the game 2-2.

Cassie Thompson gave the Lady Dawgs their first lead on a free throw and Abbi Young followed with a field goal to put Clinton County out in front 6-3.

The rest of that opening quarter’s offensive attack came from the hands of Braylee Mann, who dropped in the Lady Bulldogs’ final seven points of the first period to put Clinton County out in front 13-6.

Riley Stockton put the Lady Bulldogs’ game into action as the second quarter got underway with a basket to move Clinton County in to a 15-6 lead early.

Monroe County came battling back, and within just a few drops down the floor, the Lady Falcons had cut the Clinton County lead to just two points, 15-13.

Clinton County finished the first half outscoring the Lady Falcons 6-3 to take a 21-16 lead into the dressing room at the break.

The Lady Bulldogs flirted with moving into double-digit leads on a couple of occasions during the third quarter of play, but Monroe County managed to stop the effort every time the Lady Dawgs seemed ready to grab ahold.

Still, Clinton County seemed to be comfortable with it’s position at the close of that third quarter, out in front by eight, 30-22.

It was on a field goal and free throw by Alexis Roberts to get the fourth quarter under play that the Lady Bulldogs were first able to reach double digit status with it’s lead, pulling out to a 33-22 advantage after that 3-0 start.

The Lady Falcons fought back in the early minutes of that final quarter, cuttin the Clinton County lead to fourpoints on two occasions, the last coming with just 1:35 showing on the game clock, 41-37.

The final seconds of action saw both teams battlling and adding points from the floor and the free throw line, with the Lady Dawgs managing to keep ahold of the upper hand and finish the contest to claim their first victory of the season, 48-42.

Individual scoring for Clinton County was:

Mann 19

Roberts 10

Young 8

Cope 4

Stockton 4

L. Moons 2

Thompson 1

Clinton County – 41

Metcalfe County – 78

Clinton County’s offense took an unexplained turn south during the early minutes of the second quarter last Friday night when the Lady Buldogs were playing host to 16th District opponent Metcalfe County.

Never able to recover, the result was a contest that was all Lady Hornets during the final three quarters of action, with the Lady Dawgs losing the important district contest by 37 points, 78-41.

The Lady Bulldogs seemed to be in good shape as the game got underway, battling toe to toe with the Lady Hornets during the opening eight minutes of action, and controlling a narrow one point lead at the close of the first quarter, 14-13.

Metcalfe County’s press defense suddenly put a complete end to the Lady Bulldog’s abililty to get the ball safely across the half court line, and time after time, Clinton County gave up possession of the basketball resulting in the Lady Hornets overtaking the lead and control of the contest on both ends.

By the end of that ill-fated second quarter of action, the game was all but in the possession of the Lady Hornets as the teams went to the halftime break with Metcalfe holding a 46-24 lead.

The second half was little more than a run to the final horn for Metcalfe County, with a fast paced third quarter that saw the Lady Dawgs fall behind even further.

After trailing by 32 at the close of the third quarter, 67-35, the game went into running clock mode inthe final minutes of the fourth quarter with Clinton County eventually falling to Metcalfe County, 78-41.

Mann 15

Roberts 6

Young 6

Stockton 4

Thompson 4

Cope 2

Clinton County – 44

Greenwood – 73

Clinton County’s Lady Bulldogs traveled to Bowling Green to take on the Lady Gators of Greenwood in an early afternoon game Saturday, facing an opponent that proved to be too much for the Lady Dawgs to handle.

Although it was never a runaway, the Lady Dawgs trailed early, eventually giving up the 14 point loss, 58-44.

Clinton County trailed early to the Lady Gators, finishing the opening quarter of play behind six points, 17-11, with early scoring for the Lady Dawgs coming from Mann, Young and Roberts.

Greenwood again outscored the Lady Dawgs during the second quarter of action, 19-10, to take a 36-21 lead to the halftime break.

Clinton County, after a 14-8 Greenwood favored third quarter of play, managed to control the scoring during the final eight minute periodwith a 15-8 run, but it proved too much to overcome, with the Lady Dawgs ending the contest behind 14 points, 58-44.

Two players wearing the blue and white finished the night in double figures, withMann dropping in 19 and Stockton finishing with a dozen points.

Individual scoring for Clinton County was:

Mann 19

Stockton 12

Roberts 9

Cope 3

Thompson 1

Lady Dawg Rylee Stockton went up for two of her four points in Clinton County’s 78-41 loss to Metcalfe County last week.

Clinton County’s Cassie Thompson put up this shot last Friday night during Clinton County’s loss to the Lady Hornets of Metcalfe County. Thompson finished the night with four points.