Caston girls basketball roundup: Douglass scores 24 in win over Bethany Christian

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Madi Douglass Grace Colvin Allison Craig Camila Hadlie Coffing

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Girls basketball

Caston 53, Bethany Christian 25 (Jan. 16):

Madi Douglass scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for a double-double for the Lady Comets in a road win over Bethany Christian.

Allison Craig added nine points and five rebounds, and Grace Colvin had nine points and six assists.

Caston led 27-14 at halftime and extended their lead to 38-19 after three quarters.

Caston has won the last three meetings between the teams.

CASTON (53) (9-10)

Hadlie Coffing 2 0-0 4, Camila Hernandez-Rios 1 0-0 2, Grace Colvin 4 0-0 9, Madi Douglass 12 0-1 24, Allison Craig 3 2-2 9, Ellie Zartman 0 0-0 0, Lexie Field 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 1 0-0 2, Adyson Steininger 1 0-0 3, Gigi Berry 0 0-2 0

TEAM: 24 2-5 53

BETHANY CHRISTIAN (25) (4-12)

Kern 0 0-2 0, Chupp 2 0-0 6, Claassen 0 0-0 0, Morris 4 2-2 11, Rassi 1 0-0 2, Nisley 1 0-0 2, Mast 2 0-0 4

TEAM: 10 2-4 25

Three-point field goals:

Caston 3 (Craig, Steininger, Colvin),

Bethany Christian 3 (Chupp 2, Morris)

Total fouls: Caston 7, Bethany Christian 8

Turnovers: Caston 15, Bethany Christian 16

Score by quarters

Caston 13 14 11 15 – 53

Bethany Christian 6 8 5 6 – 25

Triton 46, Caston 41 (OT, Jan. 3):

Madi Douglass scored 22 points, including the game-tying basket at the buzzer of regulation that forced overtime, but the Caston girls basketball team lost a Hoosier North road game to Triton at the Trojan Trench Jan. 3.

Douglass also had 11 rebounds and five steals.

Grace Colvin hit three 3-pointers and scored nine and added five assists.

Sierra Hawley led Triton with 11 points.

Caston made 4 of 14 free throws while Triton was 15 for 25.

Triton led 18-17 at halftime and then extended that lead to 33-23 after three quarters before Caston rallied.

This marked the second straight year the Caston-Triton game went to overtime. Caston won 56-48 in an extra period in Fulton last year.

The loss broke Caston’s five-year winning streak against Triton.

CASTON (41) (7-8, 4-2)

Hadlie Coffing 0 0-0 0, Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 0-0 0, Grace Colvin 3 0-0 9, Madi Douglass 8 3-12 22, Allison Craig 1 1-2 3, Ellie Zartman 1 0-0 2, Natalie Warner 1 0-0 2, Adyson Steininger 1 0-0 3, Gigi Berry 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 15 4-14 41

TRITON (46) (5-8, 2-1)

Savannah Hawley 1 2-3 4, Sierra Hawley 3 5-10 11, McKinney 3 0-4 6, Groves 1 4-4 7, Hammond 2 4-5 8, Kemp 2 0-0 6, Bules 0 0-0 0, Wright 1 0-0 2, Viers 1 0-2 2

TEAM: 14 15-25 46

Three-point field goals:

Caston 7 (Douglass 3, Colvin 3, Steininger),

Triton 3 (Kemp 2, Groves)

Total fouls: Caston 23, Triton 13

Fouled out: Warner (CAS)

Turnovers: Caston 18, Triton 17

Score by quarters

Caston 8 9 6 16 2 – 41

Triton 4 14 15 6 7 – 46

Caston 46, North Judson 38 (Dec. 11):

Allison Craig triggered a game-closing 8-0 run with a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:47 left, and Madi Douglass had 24 points and eight rebounds for the host Lady Comets in a conference win over North Judson Dec. 11.

Caston trailed 33-32 going into the fourth quarter. A Douglass driving scoop layup and a Natalie Warner basket off a Grace Colvin assist put Caston up by three.

North Judson’s Shiloh DeBoard hit a top-of-the-key 3-pointer to tie the game. A Douglass driving layup put Caston back up 38-36, but DeBoard tied it again with an off-balance banker.

Craig said coach Josh Douglass designed a play in the huddle for her to come off a screen, and she hit from the top of the key.

“I’ve been putting up a lot more 3s in the gym and practicing a lot more on dribbling a little bit too,” Craig said of her shooting. “So I’ve been trying to get better at those points in the game.”

Said coach Josh Douglass of Craig’s 3-pointer: “We executed perfectly – honestly. Proud of the girls. We have that in our set. We just haven’t put it in this year, but the way the last two possessions, they started camping a girl right in the center of the basket to stop Madi from driving. So I knew when we cross-screened for (Madi), if she attacked it a little bit and circled back, Allison was hopefully going to be wide open on top if we set a triple-screen for her. It worked out perfectly because that girl did not move from the middle of the lane.”

Douglass made 10 of 14 free throws. She had more free throw attempts than the entire North Judson team (12). Douglass made five of six free throws in the final 1:06 to secure the win.

“Coming in, we knew she was really fast, and she likes to push the ball and get her teammates the ball when they’re open,” North Judson coach Whitney Combs said of Douglass. “She can hit big shots when she needs to, and we saw that tonight.”

Warner had four points and nine rebounds.

DeBoard hit four treys and scored 23 points, but she fouled out with 1:06 left.

Caston held Cailyn Tunis scoreless in the second half.

Caston is 4-1 in their last five meetings with North Judson.

“This means a lot,” Craig said. “We got our HNAC Jug back, so that was exciting. And it was great energy overall, especially since they were ranked ninth so it was really nice to beat them.”

Coach Douglass noted that North Judson won the Hoosier North last year.

“We’ve been struggling to beat good teams, and North Judson is an excellent team,” coach Douglass said. “To be able to get that done, to give these girls some confidence, we’ve been in the big game, that’s what we’ve told them. We’ve been there, but we haven’t been able to finish. And for us tonight to be down five (32-27) … I think we were down in the fourth and to come back and find a way to win and then just shut the faucet off there at the end was tremendous by the girls.”

NORTH JUDSON (38) (6-4, 2-1)

Shiloh DeBoard 7 5-6 23, Cailyn Tunis 3 0-0 7, Avaree Johnston 0 0-0 0, Annabell Kennedy 2 1-2 6, Macy Morrow 0 0-0 0, Grace Craig 0 2-4 2, Kaia Burkett 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 12 8-12 38

CASTON (46) (6-4, 3-1)

Hadlie Coffing 0 2-4 2, Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 0-0 0, Grace Colvin 1 0-2 3, Madi Douglass 7 10-14 24, Allison Craig 3 0-0 8, Ellie Zartman 1 0-2 2, Natalie Warner 2 0-0 4, Adyson Steininger 1 0-0 3, Gigi Berry 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 15 12-22 46

Three-point field goals:

North Judson 6 (DeBoard 4, Tunis, Kennedy),

Caston 4 (Craig 2, Colvin, Steininger)

Total fouls: North Judson 20, Caston 9

Fouled out: DeBoard (NJSP), 1:06, fourth

Turnovers: North Judson 14, Caston 14

Score by quarters

North Judson 8 10 15 5 – 38

Caston 8 13 11 14 – 46

Caston 56, Logansport 13 (Dec. 6):

Madi Douglass scored 22 points and hauled down nine rebounds, and Grace Colvin tossed in three 3-pointers and added 16 for the Lady Comets in a rout of Logansport in the Cass County Invitational consolation game at the Berry Bowl Dec. 6.

Ellie Zartman added nine points.

Caston led 26-6 at halftime and extended the lead to 40-11 after three quarters.

Goldie Kitchell led Logansport with 11 points. Logansport committed 33 turnovers.

Douglass was selected to the all-tournament team.

Lewis Cass went on to beat Pioneer 66-44 in the championship game.

CASTON (56) (5-4)

Hadlie Coffing 1 0-0 2, Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 0-2 0, Grace Colvin 5 3-4 16, Madi Douglass 8 5-6 22, Allison Craig 0 2-4 2, Ellie Zartman 3 2-3 9, Lexie Field 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 2 0-0 5, Adyson Steininger 0 0-0 0, Gigi Berry 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 19 12-19 56

LOGANSPORT (13) (0-7)

Messer 0 0-0 0, Bradbury 0 0-0 0, Clem 1 0-2 2, Drummond 0 0-0 0, Spradling 0 0-0 0, Kitchell 3 5-8 11, Espinola 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 4 5-10 13

Three-point field goals:

Caston 6 (Colvin 3, Zartman, Warner, Douglass),

Logansport 0

Total fouls: Caston 17, Logansport 9

Fouled out: Clem (LOG)

Turnovers: Caston 17, Logansport 33

Score by quarters

Caston 15 11 14 16 – 56

Logansport 4 2 5 2 – 13

Lewis Cass 44, Caston 39 (Dec. 3):

Grace Colvin knocked down three 3-pointers and had 17 points, and Madi Douglass had 13 points, 10 rebounds and four assists for the host Lady Comets in a loss to Lewis Cass in the first round of the Cass County Invitational Dec. 3.

Aftin Griffin hit four 3-pointers and scored 16 points for Lewis Cass. Presley Johnson added 13. Lewis Cass won despite making just 4 of 23 3-pointers and 4 of 10 free throws.

Lewis Cass had 11 turnovers while Caston had 23.

Caston led 12-6 after one quarter, but Lewis Cass came back to take a 21-19 halftime lead.

In the other first round game, Pioneer handled Logansport 40-23.

LEWIS CASS (44) (6-0)

Hubner 0 0-0 0, Melian 2 0-0 4, Johnson 6 1-1 13, Hedrick 2 2-4 6, Griffin 6 0-0 16, Davis 1 0-1 2, Logan 0 0-0 0, Pons 1 0-2 2, Gotshall 0 1-2 1

TEAM: 18 4-10 44

CASTON (39) (4-4)

Hadlie Coffing 1 0-0 3, Camila Hernandez-Rios 1 0-0 2, Grace Colvin 7 0-0 17, Madi Douglass 6 1-3 13, Allison Craig 1 0-0 2, Ellie Zartman 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 0 2-2 2, Adyson Steininger 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 16 3-5 39

Three-point field goals:

Lewis Cass 4 (Griffin 4),

Caston 4 (Colvin 3, Coffing)

Total fouls: Lewis Cass 12, Caston 14

Turnovers: Lewis Cass 11, Caston 23

Score by quarters

Lewis Cass 6 15 12 11 – 44

Caston 12 7 12 8 – 39

Caston 71, Oregon-Davis 35 (Nov. 24):

Grace Colvin hit five 3-pointers and scored 23 points, and Madi Douglass had 22 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for Caston in a Hoosier North home win over Oregon-Davis Nov. 24.

Adyson Steininger hit three 3-pointers – all in the second quarter – and added nine.

Caston made 10 3-pointers while Oregon-Davis made one. Caston also committed only nine turnovers as compared to Oregon-Davis’ 24.

“We’ve been jamming the ball with our ball pressure up top so that we could get in the gap and force turnovers,” Colvin said.

Caston was coming off a 31-21 win over Argos six days earlier. Caston scored 36 points in the first half and 35 in the second half in this game.

“We moved. We cut,” Caston coach Josh Douglass said. “After that Argos game, I think we were mentally tired. We took Wednesday off last week after that game, and we got back at it, and we had really good practices leading up to tonight. And we talked about that. The more you move, the ball will find you when you’re open, and it just flows better, and you just shoot the ball better.”

Caston also held Oregon-Davis point guard Gabriella Krause scoreless. Krause scored 18 against Caston in a 49-45 loss last year.

“Just keep putting pressure on her,” coach Douglass said of the defensive plan against Krause. “I think picking up with the guards that we have and the ability to go as deep as we do, just picking those guards up fullcourt and making them work wears them down and gets them frustrated.”

Madi Douglass outscored the entire Oregon-Davis team 15-14 in the first half as Caston built a 22-point halftime lead.

Colvin outscored the entire Oregon-Davis team 10-9 in the third quarter as the lead reached 36, triggering a running clock for the fourth quarter.

Colvin scored only six points in her previous game against Argos on Nov. 18. She said she had been coming into school early to take extra shots.

“I was just beating myself up,” Colvin said. “I didn’t have myself square to the basket. So as soon as I figured that out, it started going in. … When I come in and I’m nervous in the game, I usually don’t shoot well until I get my feet underneath me and get myself calmed down.”

Sarah Thompson scored 26 points and pulled down 11 rebounds for the Lady Bobcats, but no teammate scored more than three.

OREGON-DAVIS (35) (3-4, 0-3)

Trinity Vaszari 1 0-0 3, Gabriella Krause 0 0-0 0, Madison Zelaya 0 0-0 0, Eryn MacMillan 1 1-2 3, Sarah Thompson 9 8-12 26, Alivia Edwards 1 0-0 2, Victoria Nagai 0 1-2 1

TEAM: 12 10-16 35

CASTON (71) (4-3, 2-1)

Hadlie Coffing 1 0-0 2, Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 1-2 1, Grace Colvin 9 0-0 23, Madi Douglass 9 4-9 22, Allison Craig 1 0-0 3, Ellie Zartman 0 0-0 0, Lexie Field 1 0-0 3, Natalie Warner 2 2-2 6, Adyson Steininger 3 0-0 9, Gigi Berry 1 0-0 2

TEAM: 27 7-13 71

Three-point field goals:

Oregon-Davis 1 (Vaszari),

Caston 10 (Colvin 5, Steininger 3, Craig, Field)

Total fouls: Oregon-Davis 12, Caston 17

Turnovers: Oregon-Davis 24, Caston 9

Score by quarters

Oregon-Davis 5 9 9 12 – 35

Caston 14 22 23 12 – 71