Frontier Opens League Play with Win at Hoosac Valley

CHESHIRE, Mass. – Addie Harrington scored 17 points, and the Frontier girls basketball team Tuesday held Hoosac Valley to 21 points through three quarters in a 51-42 win.

 

Reagan Shea scored a game-high 26, and Genevieve Lagess added 12 for the Hurricanes, who slipped to 1-1.

 

Ball security was a major issue for Hoosac Valley, which committed 16 turnovers in the first half and 11 in the third quarter alone as the Redhawks built a 47-24 lead early in the fourth.

 

“Way too many turnovers,” Hoosac Valley coach Jon Frederick said. “We totally reshuffled this year. I’m not gonna say ‘rebuild.’ I’m not gonna say we’re young. Those are not my excuses.

 

“But we just didn’t possess the ball. We’ve told them from Day 1, possession for us is king.”

 

Frontier scored the game’s first 10 points, but the Hurricanes rallied back when Shea heated up from behind the 3-point arc.

 

Shea hit three straight triples to get the Hurricanes within five and then drove the right win for a bucket that got her team within three at 15-12 midway through the second quarter.

 

But Frontier closed a low-scoring first half on an 8-2 run to go into the locker room with a nine-point advantage.

 

Frederick said his team, which lost three seniors and a couple of other regulars from last year’s state championship run, was shaken being down, 23-14, in the locker room.

 

“At halftime, we were pouting, and I’m like, ‘It’s three baskets,’ “ he said. “And we took a bunch. We just couldn’t get them to fall. And sometimes that happens. But with this group, they get down sometimes, and then they start to try to do things that are out of their element. That’s when bad things start to happen.”

 

Frontier took advantage in the third quarter, using seven points from Harrington and doubling its lead to 39-21 when Whitney Campbell (12 points) got at midcourt and took the ball the other way, drawing a foul and making both shots at the end of the quarter.

 

The Redhawks then started the fourth with an 8-3 run broken up by a 3 from Shea, who went on to score 13 fourth-quarter points as the Hurricanes got the margin back to single digits.

 

But despite closing on a 9-0 run, the Hurricanes ran out of time.

 

Hoosac Valley continues play in the Suburban League on Friday, when they host Drury.

 

Photos from this game to come.