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BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS
Sports Editor, RTC
Girls basketball
South Bend St. Joe 38, Caston 30 (Tuesday): Madi Douglass scored a game-high 13 points and added 10 rebounds for a double-double, but the host Lady Comets lost to South Bend St. Joe on Tuesday.
Grace Colvin added nine points, and Natalie Warner had seven points and a team-high 11 rebounds. Freshmen and sophomores scored all 30 Caston points.
Kenadie Schrock led South Bend St. Joe with 11 points.
Caston committed 19 turnovers.
South Bend St. Joe led 12-9 after one quarter and extended the lead to 20-15 at halftime.
SOUTH BEND ST. JOE (38) (9-4)
Parker 3 1-2 7, Langager 1 2-2 4, Hickey 2 0-0 6, Brooke 1 0-0 3, Walters 2 0-0 5, Schrock 5 1-4 11, Martin 0 0-0 0, Woods 1 0-0 2, Byrne 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 15 4-8 38
CASTON (30) (6-10)
Grace Colvin 4 0-0 9, Madi Douglass 6 1-2 13, Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 0-0 0, Olivia Thomas 0 0-0 0, Allison Craig 0 1-2 1, Hadlie Coffing 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 3 1-1 7, Adyson Steininger 0 0-2 0
TEAM: 13 3-7 30
Three-point field goals:
South Bend St. Joe 4 (Langager 2, Parker, Schrock),
Caston 1 (Colvin)
Total fouls: South Bend St. Joe 8, Caston 12
Turnovers: South Bend St. Joe 6, Caston 19
Score by quarters
SB St. Joe 12 8 10 8 – 38
Caston 9 6 9 6 – 30
Caston 56, Triton 48 (OT, Saturday):
Madi Douglass scored 27 points, and Natalie Warner had her first career-double for the Lady Comets in a Hoosier North home win over Triton Saturday.
Grace Colvin also had 14 points, six rebounds and a team-high five assists for Caston, who improved to 6-9 overall and 3-3 in the Hoosier North.
Avery Viers and Sydney King had 10 each for Triton, who dropped to 1-14, 0-4.
Triton led 21-16 at halftime and still led 30-27 after three quarters. The game was tied 40-40 after regulation.
Caston won despite making just one of 12 3-pointers. Caston went 21 for 31 from the foul line with Douglass going 11 of 18 and Colvin and Warner going a combined nine for nine.
Caston defeated Triton for the fifth straight year.
TRITON (48) (1-14, 0-4)
Savannah Hawley 1 1-3 3, Sierra Hawley 2 3-3 7, McKinney 2 1-3 5, Groves 1 1-4 4, Riffle 2 2-2 7, Hammond 1 0-0 2, Bules 0 0-0 0, Viers 2 6-8 10, King 3 2-4 10
TEAM: 14 16-27 48
CASTON (56) (6-9, 3-3)
Grace Colvin 4 5-5 14, Madi Douglass 8 11-18 27, Olivia Thomas 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 3 4-4 10, Allison Craig 1 0-0 2, Hadlie Coffing 0 0-2 0, Camila Hernandez-Rios 1 0-0 2, Kylee Logan 0 0-0 0, Adyson Steininger 0 1-2 1, Gigi Berry 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 17 21-31 56
Three-point field goals:
Triton 4 (King 2, Groves, Riffle),
Caston 1 (Colvin)
Total fouls: Triton 20, Caston 24
Turnovers: Triton 11, Caston 11
Score by quarters
Triton 10 11 9 10 8 – 48
Caston 9 7 11 13 16 – 56
Caston finishes 4th at Miami County Invite
DENVER — Madi Douglass scored 19 points, but the Caston girls basketball team could not overcome North Miami’s game-opening 13-1 run and fell to the Lady Warriors 56-35 in the Miami County Invitational consolation game on Dec. 28.
Kayden Donaldson led North Miami with 16 points and nine rebounds, and Laylah Hampton had 10. Grace Sailors had eight points and nine rebounds.
Caston did not have a field goal in the first quarter. Already trailing 16-6 after one quarter, North Miami went on a 9-0 run to start the second quarter on a Donaldson screen-and-roll basket, a Hampton steal and layup, a Hampton putback, a Hampton screen-and-roll banker and a Sailors free throw.
Caston trailed 33-16 at halftime.
Caston’s best run was a 7-0 run in the third quarter that got them within 38-26. The run included a Douglass layup on a press breaker, an Allison Craig pullup banker over post player Donaldson and a step-through drive from Douglass which she turned into a 3-point play.
Caston committed 17 turnovers against North Miami’s fullcourt press.
“When we get pressure, those younger girls just can’t handle that pressure yet of slowing the game down to execute,” Caston coach Josh Douglass said. “I thought in the second half, we handled that a lot better and actually ran some plays and executed it very well. We didn’t hit the shot, but at least we ran them and executed them and got a shot.”
Defensively, Caston played a man-to-man for all 32 minutes. The Lady Comets had shown proficiency in a 1-2-2 zone in previous games, but Douglass said the man-to-man is part of the “building” process for sophomores like Douglass and Natalie Warner and freshmen like Grace Colvin, Allison Craig, Hadlie Coffing, Gigi Berry and Adyson Steininger.
“I wanted to do it,” coach Douglass said. “The girls needed to do it. They’ve got a few days off coming up, so I forced them to do it. I wanted them to work on things. You can see a lot of our weaknesses that were exposed and things that we had seen. But it wasn’t on film a lot. Now we can go back and teach the girls what we’re talking about better.”
Coach Douglass was asked who on the team has made a lot of progress in recent games. He elected to put Hernandez-Rios and Steininger in the starting lineup.
“They all have,” he said. “We’re just trying to mix it up too. The girls are working hard. They’re trying hard. We wanted to try some different things. I thought Adyson came in there and started the first half, and I thought she did some really good things there in the first half. And then in the second half, not as well as the first half.
“But, you know, that’s what we’re trying to do with these girls: build them up, put them in those situations. It comes from having good practices stacked on top. And that’s what we told the girls: We want the girls that are practicing well, you know what, you might get thrown in that starting lineup. We want to reward you for it.”
Game notes
The teams will meet again at North Miami on Jan. 23. That game will count in the Hoosier North standings.
Douglass was picked for the all-tournament team.
Hernandez-Rios, Olivia Thomas and Kylee Logan were picked for the All-Academic Tournament Team.
North Miami 56, Caston 35
CASTON (35) (5-9)
Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 1-2 1, Grace Colvin 0 2-6 2, Madi Douglass 5 9-15 15, Olivia Thomas 0 1-2 1, Adyson Steininger 0 0-0 0, Myli Rude 0 0-0 0, Ellie Zartman 0 0-0 0, Hadlie Coffing 2 0-0 4, Kylee Logan 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 2 0-2 4, Gigi Berry 0 0-0 0, Allison Craig 2 0-1 4
TEAM: 11 13-28 35
NORTH MIAMI (56) (6-6)
Victoria Masters 3 0-0 6, Laney Musall 3 0-0 7, Brealyn Correll 0 0-0 0, Grace Sailors 3 2-3 8, Kayden Donaldson 6 4-8 16, Jlynn Piercy 1 1-2 3, Audi Medina 0 0-0 0, Laina Kling 1 0-0 2, Porscha Pickett 2 0-0 4, Sarah Snavely 0 0-0 0, Layla Hampton 4 2-2 10
TEAM: 23 9-15 56
Three-point field goals:
Caston 0,
North Miami 1 (Musall)
Total fouls: Caston 12, North Miami 24
Turnovers: Caston 17, North Miami 16
Score by quarters
Caston 6 10 15 4 – 35
North Miami 16 17 15 8 – 56
Douglass has double-double in loss to Peru
Peru 44, Caston 33 (first round, Dec. 27): Madi Douglass scored 23 points and pulled down 12 rebounds, but the Lady Comets lost to Peru in the first round of the Miami County Invitational at North Miami on Dec. 27.
No other Caston player had more than three points.
Addison Robbins had 21 points for the Lady Tigers.
Caston led 14-6 after one quarter and 19-18 at halftime, but Peru held Caston just four points in the third quarter and claimed a 35-23 lead going into the fourth quarter.
Peru beat Caston by an identical 44-33 score on Nov. 12 at Peru in their regular season meeting.
Peru beat Maconaquah 51-45 in overtime on Dec. 28 to win the tournament title.
Peru 44, Caston 33
CASTON (33) (5-8)
Grace Colvin 1 0-0 2, Madi Douglass 8 6-12 23, Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 3-4 3, Olivia Thomas 1 0-0 2, Allison Craig 0 1-2 1, Hadlie Coffing 0 0-0 0, Kylee Logan 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 1 0-0 2, Adyson Steininger 0 0-0 0, Gigi Berry 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 11 10-18 33
PERU (44) (5-9)
Butt 1 0-0 3, Boswell 1 4-6 6, Sensel 0 1-2 1, Azbell 2 0-0 6, Ross 1 0-0 2, Robbins 7 5-6 21, Correll 1 3-4 5
TEAM: 13 13-18 44
Three-point field goals:
Caston 1 (Douglass),
Peru 5 (Robbins 2, Azbell 2, Butt)
Total fouls: Caston 15, Peru 15
Fouled out: Douglass (CAS), Correll (PERU)
Turnovers: Caston 19, Peru 15
Score by quarters
Caston 14 5 4 10 – 33
Peru 6 12 17 9 – 44
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