The Union County Patriots will take on the New Castle Trojans at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully Union County focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up eight last Thursday.
While Patriots fans will have to keep waiting for their squad to come home, they shouldn't be too worried about the road trip considering the result of Thursday's season opener. They blew past Milan 55-16.
Katie McCashland had a dynamite game for Union County, going 8 for 14 en route to 21 points plus seven steals. Ally Gray was another key player, scoring six points plus two steals.
Union County was working as a unit and finished the game with 11 assists. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Milan only posted three.
Meanwhile, New Castle was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their 14th straight defeat dating back to last season. They had to suffer through a 59-20 loss at the hands of Pendleton Heights. The Trojans were down 53-18 at the end of the third quarter, and things only got worse from there.
Piper Arthur was New Castle's leading scorer, having posted nine points.
Mallory Owens held things down on the boards with seven rebounds.
Carlee Lanzer took the lead distributing the ball, coming up with two assists.
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