After trailing 25-6 at halftime, the Ovid-Elsie Lady Marauder ramped things up in the second half with a feverish comeback attempt, but the Dansville Aggies would secure the win 42-33.  Dansville improves to 3-0 while Ovid-Elsie falls to 1-2.

After an 11-4 first quarter and a 14-2 second quarter, the Lady Marauder would get things in order with an 18-7 third quarter and cut the Dansville lead to 3, but a 10-9 fourth quarter kept the Marauders at bay.

"We couldn't buy a basket in the first half," said Head Coach Ryan Cunningham.  "Part of that we credit to their tough defense, but a lot of it had to do with us just playing too soft.  We cannot come out flat against a quality opponent like Dansville.  We just dug ourselves too big of a hole."

Ava Bates paced the Lady Marauders with 13 points, 7rebounds, 5 steals, and 3 assists while Evalyn Cole added 9 points and 5 rebounds and Kiah Longoria 7 points.  Hailee Campbell also added 5 rebounds.  Braeden Tokar and Ellyanna Carman rounded out the OE scoring with 2 points each.

Ovid-Elsie handed out 9 assists on 11 made baskets and collected 9 steals off of 15 Aggie turnovers but once again, Dansville out rebounded Ovid-Elsie 30-27.

Ovid-Elsie will open up conference play at Montrose on Friday at 5:30 p.m.