OTTAWA – The “big 3” of Ottawa Glandorf led the Titans in scoring in the first quarter and helped to set the tone for the transition game that would help the hosts to their 24th straight home victory, a 56-17 triumph over WBL foe Celina.
Although they didn’t open the game with the fast and furious scoring output of home games past the Titans jumped out to a 12-3 advantage at the end of the opening stanza thanks to baskets by Erin Kaufman, Kelsey Erford, and a six point effort by sophomore Chloe Glenn against an undersized Bulldog interior defense.
Held scoreless for nearly five minutes of the game from a basket by senior Emma Homan in the first quarter that pulled the score within a point at 4-3 until a second quarter marker by Taylor Klingshirn, the Bulldogs quickly found themselves behind in before the halftime break 16-6 amid a flurry of turnovers.
Despite themselves being bitten by the turnover bug in the first half the Titans got scoring from six players and a perfect six for six performance from the free throw line to run their advantage to 28-8 at the halftime break.
Six players again dented the scoring column in the third period for OG led by Glenn who scored four on her way to a game high 16 points and her 10th double figure scoring effort of the season. Kelsey Erford and Erin Kaufman joined the Titan sophomore with a pair of baskets in the third quarter to up their teams lead to 46-10 at the buzzer.
Celina’s lone score of the third came again from their leading scorer on the year Klingshirn with 1:41 remaining to stop another long drought without a point of nearly six and a half minutes.
Working deep into the Titan bench in the final stanza the Titans added 10 points to their score with baskets coming from subs Katie Kaufman, Anna Siefker, Chloe Schroeder, and a pair by Myka Aldrich while Celina ended their futility with back to back scores by Emma Homan and Kira Dirksen before time ran out on a 56-17 OG victory.
“I thought we played better team offense and that started with Chloee Glenn being more involved and facilitating the offense. I’m hopeful that can contine and we can continue to build our defense as we figure out our rotations moving forward” said OG coach Troy Yant on his teams performance.
Celina (0-13, 0-6) has now dropped 20 games in a row dating back to the end of last season and will next battle Allen East inside the Fieldhouse on Monday night against a Mustang squad that was the opponent for their last victory on January 27th, 2020.
Ottawa Glandorf (13-2, 4-1) will host Delta on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 P.M. before a Monday night Western Buckeye League tilt against Van Wert on Monday evening.
Scoring:
OG (56):
Chloe Schroeder 2
Kelsey Erford 10
Lily Haselman 2
Ella Okuley 4
Myka Aldrich 6
Erin Kaufman 8
Katie Kaufman 4
Chloee Glenn 16
FT: 8/8
3PT: 0
TO: 17
Celina (17):
Kennedy Henry 2
Taylor Klingshirn 6
Kira Dirksen 3
Emma Homan 4
Kyilla Billingsley 2
FT: 1/4
3PT: 2 (Klingshirn, Dirksen)
TO: 26
JV: 38-22 OG