Santoro sets Lady Red scoring record, girls defeat Columbian

By YANEEK SMITH

Gazette Cor­re­spon­dent

CARLY SANTORO

By scor­ing 43 points Fri­day in Bellevue’s 73–21 vic­tory over Tif­fin Columbian, sopho­more point guard Carly San­toro set a new single-game scor­ing mark, break­ing a 33-year record pre­vi­ously held by Lori (LaFol­lette) Shiets.

San­toro scored in a vari­ety of ways, con­nect­ing on layups, mid-range jumpers and 3-pointers as she broke a record that Shi­ets set on Feb. 25, 1980. What’s even more impres­sive is that San­toro broke the record in just three quar­ters of play, exit­ing with two min­utes remain­ing to a stand­ing ovation.

With the win, the Lady Red improved to 10–2 over­all and 5–0 in the North­ern Ohio League while the Tor­na­does fell to 5–8 and 1–4 in the league.

“(Carly) got going with some layups off our defen­sive pres­sure, con­nected on pull-ups and hit five 3-pointers,” Belle­vue head coach Ryan Orshoski said.

“She’s been a great scorer all year, but she was really, really effi­cient all night and took good shots.”

San­toro had no idea about the record until an announce­ment was made over the loud speaker.

“I really had no idea, and then the announce­ment was made that I broke Lori LaFollette’s record,” San­toro said Friday.

“It’s really excit­ing know­ing that I broke a really good player’s record. She’s had so many records, and it’s a major accomplishment.”

Despite scor­ing 73 points, Orshoski was most impressed with his team’s defen­sive effort.

“We did a lot of full-court pres­sure with trap­ping and ball pres­sure wing denials,” he said.

“I thought our defen­sive effort was some­thing to build on.”

Belle­vue outscored the Tor­na­does, 24–9, in the first quar­ter before putting the game out of reach with a 22–0 advan­tage in the sec­ond period to make it, 46–9, at halftime.

Han­nah Lilly helped pace the Lady Red with eight points and Jake Turner had seven. Columbian, mean­while, got eight points from Jole Cole and six from Payge Smith.

“I thought that we shared the ball well,” Orshoski said. “We had 10 of our 11 play­ers score.”

On Tues­day, Belle­vue will return to action when it hosts for­mer NOL foe Upper San­dusky, which is 12–1 on the season.

“We’re def­i­nitely still a work in progress,” San­toro said. “We’re gelling together and every game we’re improv­ing; we’re find­ing (our way).”

COLUMBIAN (21) — Megan Moore 2–0-4; Jole Cole 3–0-8; Ken­zie Zim­mer­man 1–1-3; Payge Smith 3–0-6; Totals 9–1-21.

BELLEVUE (73) — Whit­ney Schalk 2–0-4; Han­nah Lilly 4–0-8; Jake Turner 3–0-7; Tara Rin­ner 0–2-2; Carly San­toro 17–4-43; Hilary Brown 0–2-2; Janelle Wat­son 1–0-2; Makala Daniel 1–1-3; Miranda Gibbs 1–0-2. Totals 29–9-73.

T. Columbian 9 0 6 6 — 21

Belle­vue 24 22 21 6 — 73

Half­time — Belle­vue 46–9

3-pt FG — (TC) Cole 2; (B) San­toro 5; Turner

JV Game — Belle­vue, 45–18

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