Trenton Girls Into Consolation Game

Trenton Boys Overwhelmed By Lawson Cardinals
The Trenton High School basketball teams went in opposite directions at the Lawson Tournament on Wednesday. For the girls, a 53-19 victory over Hamilton pushed the Bulldogs into tonight’s (Friday’s) consolation game. Trenton’s boys, however, saw their run in the tournament come to a close with an 82-35 loss to the host Lawson Cardinals.
A winless Hamilton team was probably feeling pretty good after one quarter of play on Wednesday as the Trenton girls held just a 10-7 advantage. The Bulldogs would crush any hopes of a victory Hamilton may have been feeling with a 13-2 run in the second quarter, however. Trenton reved up its offense dramatically in the third quarter, piling 20 points on top of their first half total while limiting Hamilton to just four points in the frame. With the game in hand, Trenton coasted through the fourth quarter and into the consolation finals set for tonight, where they will face the Richmond Spartans at 5:30 p.m.
“The girls bounced back really well,” Trenton head coach Kameron Cool said. “I really liked our pace and how well we guarded. We will have to be ready against a really tough and athletic Richmond team.”
Freshman Astrid Soriano paced the Bulldogs with 13 points and five steals. Chandler Lynch seemed to have a hand in everything Trenton did, going for 10 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and five steals. Trenton would also get nine points and three steals each from Mirena and Morgan King and Rebecca Urich finished the game with five points and three steals. Madi Moore followed with four points and seven rebounds. Three points from Teya Cooksey rounded out the Trenton total.
With the win, Trenton improved to 7-7 overall heading into tonight’s trophy game against Richmond.
The Trenton boys had their hands full with Lawson as the Cardinals pressured Trenton into a multitude of miscues, leading to a 47-point loss.
Kiefer Tolson led Trenton with 14 points while Gabe Novak scored 11 and Keegan Brown and Hunter Smith each had four. Seth Doolittle scored two.
With the loss, Trenton’s boys fell to 0-14 overall.
MONDAY
On Monday the Trenton teams were dealt first-round losses at the Lawson Tournament. The girls fell 65-31 to host Lawson while the boys ran into a buzzsaw in top-seeded Richmond, falling 77-21.
The Trenton girls usually stingy defense incurred multiple breakdowns against Lawson. Trenton trailed 12-4 one quarter in, but Lawson really took off from that point. By halftime the deficit had grown to 14 points and Lawson reeled off 21 points in the third quarter and another 13 in the fourth to win by 34 points.
The Trenton girls were paced by 10 points from Mirena King. Morgan King, Lynch and Soriano all added six points each and two points from Gracyn Rongey and one from Mallory Sole rounded out the team’s total.
The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for Trenton.
The Trenton boys hung tough with the tournament’s top seed through the first quarter, trailing 11-7 eight minutes in. Richmond took the brakes off in the second, however, outscoring the Bulldogs 28-3 in the frame. Trenton was held without a field goal in the quarter and went into the locker room trailing by 29 points.
Richmond continued its offensive onslaught in the third, adding 29 points to its total before coasting through the fourth quarter.
The eighth-seeded Bulldogs were led by five points each from Tolson and Novak and Wade Houser, Doolittle and Bradyn Sager all scored three points each. Dylan Spencer and Trevor Murphy rounded out the Bulldogs’ total with one point each.
Trenton hosts Polo on Tuesday in Grand River Conference action.