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BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS
Sports Editor, RTC
Alydiah Leed Ellie Bollenbacher
Girls basketball
Triton 40, Argos 36 (Tuesday): Alydiah Leed and Ellie Bollenbacher scored 14 points, and Morgyn Barcus added seven points and seven rebounds off the bench, but Triton staved off a fourth-quarter comeback to beat Argos in a Class 1A, Sectional 51 quarterfinal at Oregon-Davis Tuesday.
Leed hit a pair of 3-pointers and also had four rebounds. Bollenbacher also had four rebounds. Leed, Bollenbacher and Barcus fouled out.
Triton, who came into the sectional on a six-game losing streak, avenged a pair of regular season losses to Argos and improved to 3-20. Sierra Hawley had 10 points and nine rebounds, and Sydney King and Avery Viers had nine points each.
Triton led 23-11 at halftime and extended the lead to 30-16 after three quarters.
Triton outscored Argos 17-10 from the foul line. Triton won despite committing 23 turnovers.
Argos finished 7-16.
Triton will play Elkhart Christian in the semifinals at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Friday. Elkhart Christian drubbed Trinity Greenlawn 54-14 in Tuesday’s other quarterfinal.
TRITON (40) (3-20)
Hawley 1 8-9 10, McKinney 1 3-6 5, Groves 0 2-2 2, Riffle 2 1-2 5, Viers 3 3-8 9, Stetler 0 0-0 0, King 3 0-0 9
TEAM: 10 17-27 40
ARGOS (36) (7-16)
Alydiah Leed 3 6-8 14, Leah Pizzuto 0 0-2 0, Lexi Gibson 0 1-2 1, Haley Shafer 0 0-0 0, Ellie Bollenbacher 7 0-2 14, Morgyn Barcus 2 3-4 7, Mak Smith 0 0-0 0, Ava VanDerWeele 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 12 10-18 36
Three-point field goals:
Triton 3 (King 3),
Argos 2 (Leed 2)
Total fouls: Triton 15, Argos 22
Fouled out: Leed (ARG), Bollenbacher (ARG), Barcus (ARG)
Turnovers: Triton 23, Argos 17
Score by quarters
Triton 7 16 7 10 – 40
Argos 6 5 5 20 – 36
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