Maci Moore is on the verge of joining Trenton’s 1,000-point club. After leading Trenton with 23 points in a 55-22 road victory in Gallatin on Tuesday night, the junior now stands just 21 points shy of becoming the eighth player in the program’s history to reach that milestone.
In the lopsided victory over Gallatin, Moore displayed all the reasons why she is so close to reaching 1,000 points. She hammered the home Bulldogs in the paint, she got to the free throw line and she knocked down a three-pointer. With her 23 points she added 17 rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots.
Gallatin had no answers.
“Maci is so talented, but she works really hard to get her points, this year especially,” Trenton coach Kameron Cool said. “She is having to be very active and she is having to do it against multiple defenders most of the time. So, for her, she has had to find creative ways to score. Her career as a whole has been one of the best Trenton is ever going to see. She is just a really special talent.”
Gallatin didn’t exactly represent the toughest test for Trenton. The red-and-black Bulldogs are the only girls team in the GRC East without a conference victory yet and stood just 1-7 overall on the season entering the night.
Still, Trenton had to show up and take care of business and did just that.
The black-and-gold Bulldogs crept out to a 10-4 first quarter lead, then pushed the advantage to 25-11 by halftime. Trenton outscored Gallatin in both the third and fourth quarters as well, going on to take the game by the 33-point margin.
“I thought we guarded really well,” Cool said. “Early on, offensively, we weren’t sharp, but we never quit guarding. We didn’t let offense affect defense, so I was really proud of how we competed, on the defensive end especially.”
Behind Moore’s 23, Trenton got 12 points from Teya Cooksey and five each from McKayla Blackburn and Chandler Lynch. Lexi Whitaker and Gracyn Rongey each scored four points and Kendall Crowley rounded out the Trenton total with two points.
The win vaulted Trenton to 6-4 overall and 3-0 within the Grand River Conference.
The Bulldogs are scheduled to be at Maysville in another GRC match-up tonight (Friday) and will travel to Benton High School in St. Joseph on Saturday to take part in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Classic. Trenton faces Odessa at the event, tipping off at 11:30 a.m.