McCune scores 14, A. Berndt adds 10 as Culver edges Triton

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Ava McCune Ashlynn Berndt

Girls basketball

Culver 42, Triton 38 (Friday): Ava McCune scored a game-high 14 points, and Ashlynn Berndt hit three 3-pointers and added 10 for the visiting Lady Cavaliers in a Hoosier North road win over Triton Friday.

Amiyah Williams added seven points and a team-high six rebounds. Brynn Berndt’s four points came in the fourth quarter.

Sydney King hit four 3-pointers and scored 12 points to lead Triton. Sierra Hawley added 10.

Triton committed 22 turnovers.

Culver led 30-21 after three quarters, but Triton started the fourth quarter on an 11-2 run to tie the game.

But Brynn Berndt used a screen to score on a back door layup to start an 8-0 run. Williams scored on a putback, Berndt took a sideline inbounds pass and drove in for two, and McCune added two free throws to make it 40-32 with 1:53 left.

Culver improved to 11-7 and finished Hoosier North play 6-2. Triton fell to 2-17, 0-7.

The teams will meet again in the Bi-County Tournament at Triton at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Culver had lost 11 of their previous 12 meetings with Triton. Culver won at the Trojan Trench for the first time since winning a Bi-County Tournament game there in January 2012, and they won a conference game there for the first time since January 2011.

Triton coach Ashli Faulkner was the Culver coach from 2007-10.

CULVER (42) (11-7, 6-2)

Ava McCune 5 3-5 14, Ashlynn Berndt 3 1-4 10, Brynn Berndt 2 0-0 4, Brooke Davis 0 2-4 2, Amiyah Williams 3 1-4 7, Maddy Hamilton 0 0-0 0, Brianna Schlemmer 2 0-0 5

TEAM: 15 7-17 42

TRITON (38) (2-17, 0-7)

Hawley 4 1-3 10, McKinney 1 0-4 2, Groves 1 0-0 3, Viers 1 3-10 5, King 4 0-0 12, Riffle 1 2-2 4, Stetler 0 2-2 2

TEAM: 12 8-21 38

Three-point field goals:

Culver 5 (A. Berndt 3, McCune, Schlemmer),

Triton 6 (King 4, Hawley, Groves)

Total fouls: Culver 18, Triton 19

Fouled out: Viers (TRI)

Turnovers: Culver 18, Triton 22

Score by quarters

Culver 15 7 8 12 – 42