Thursday night the Ovid-Elsie Lady Marauders took on the visiting Chesaning Indians in an MMAC showdown which featured two undefeated conference opponents.  Ovid-Elsie would come away with the victory, 54-15.

Senior Kiah Longoria came out and scored 10 first quarter points to pace the Lady Marauders to a 23-3 first quarter advantage.  Ovid-Elsie followed it up with an 11-5 second quarter and an 18-1 third quarter before surrendering the fourth quarter 7-2.  Ovid-Elsie led by as many as 44 points which brought a running clock into play.

"I'm just so impressed with our defensive intensity," said Head Coach Ryan Cunningham.  "That's the third straight game we've held our opponent to under ten points in the first half.  Our girls take great pride in our defense and it really showed tonight.  It was probably the most complete game - offensively and defensively - that we have played this season."

Junior Evalyn Cole led all scorers with 20 points while adding 8 steals and 6 rebounds and fellow classmate Braeden Tokar added 11 points and 4 assists.  Ava Bates added 8 points and 5 rebounds while Ellyanna Carman chipped in with 3 points and 3 rebounds and Izzy Loynes had 2 points to round out the Marauder scoring.

"I love the fact that we are so diverse in our scoring," added Cunningham.  "Kiah came out on fire and then you saw Evalyn, Braeden and Ava start to pick up offensively.  That's the great thing about this team, we have so many kids who can lead us at any time."

The Lady Marauders collected 18 steals on 33 Indian turnovers and handed out 12 assists on 21 made baskets.  Rebounding was deadlocked at 25-25 but Ovid-Elsie out shot Chesaning 41% to 21% from the floor.  Ovid-Elsie committed just 8 turnovers on the night.

Ovid-Elsie (5-2, 4-0 MMAC) will be idle until Ithaca (6-0) comes to town on on January 3rd.  Chesaning falls to 4-3 and 3-1 in the MMAC.