Scales and Douglass add 12; next up: vs. South Newton, 7:30 p.m. Friday
BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS
Sports Editor, RTC
Girls basketball
Caston 62, West Central 37 (Tuesday): Addison Zimpleman hit four 3-pointers and scored a game-high 24 points, and Isabel Scales and Madi Douglass added 12 each for the No. 7 Lady Comets in a rout of West Central in a Class 1A, Sectional 52 quarterfinal at South Newton Tuesday.
Alexa Finke added seven points, a season high.
Annika Smith led the Lady Trojans with 11 points.
Caston improved to 19-3. West Central finished 13-9.
West Central came in having gone 7-1 in their final eight regular season games, but Caston erupted for a 26-8 lead after one quarter and extended the lead to 49-16 at halftime.
Caston had scored 49 points in a game only twice in their last eight regular season games coming in.
Caston will play South Newton in the semifinals at 7:30 p.m. Friday. South Newton is 1-16 and has lost nine straight games. They have not won a sectional game since 2019.
In Tuesday’s other quarterfinal, Tri-County held Frontier scoreless in the second half and ran away with a 62-13 win. Tri-County will play North White, who received a bye, in the semifinals at 6 p.m. Friday.
WEST CENTRAL (37) (13-9)
B. Mellon 1 0-0 3, Scholz 0 0-0 0, L. Allen 1 0-0 3, Bishop 2 2-2 6, DeMoss 1 1-1 3, Sharpe 2 1-2 6, Smith 5 1-2 11, S. Mellon 0 5-5 5, Bunger 0 0-0 0, M. Allen 0 0-0 0, Holle 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 12 10-12 37
CASTON (62) (19-3)
Macee Hinderlider 1 2-2 4, Addison Zimpleman 8 4-6 24, Madi Douglass 5 0-1 12, Isabel Scales 5 2-3 12, Alexa Finke 1 5-6 7, Camila Hernandez-Rios 0 0-0 0, Natalie Warner 0 0-0 0, Kylee Logan 0 0-0 0, Grace Wright 0 0-0 0, Kylie Reidenbach 0 0-0 0, Olivia Thomas 0 1-2 1, Kaitie Hutsell 0 0-0 0, Annie Harsh 0 2-2 2
TEAM: 20 16-22 62
Three-point field goals:
West Central 3 (B. Mellon, L. Allen, Sharpe),
Caston 6 (Zimpleman 4, Douglass 2)
Total fouls: West Central 18, Caston 12
Fouled out: Sharpe (WC), Hinderlider (CAS)
Turnovers: West Central 21, Caston 18
Score by quarters
West Central 8 8 10 11 – 37
Caston 26 23 6 7 – 62
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