FC, Kilmer highlight girls’ opening night

12-24-25

By Corey Gesford
In a busy two-week stand girls’ basketball teams did some final fine tuning before the league
opener on Thursday, December 18 and the Christmas holiday tournaments.
Forest City provided the biggest news of the opening night of Lackawanna League Division III
play on December 18 when the Lady Foresters traveled to Dimock and took down reigning
league champion Elk Lake 50-42 in overtime.
Trailing 31-26 going into the fourth quarter, the Lady Foresters rallied and outscored the Lady
Warriors – who had several players battling illness leading up to the game, 13-8 to force
overtime.
Forest City maintained the momentum and Michaela Zaveri scored five points in the extra
stanza to lead the way.
Kayla Pecko scored 15 points including a 10-14 performance from the charity stripe to lead
Forest City while Sophia Lombardi added 10 and Zaveri finished with eight. Madi Casselbury
had 13 points to lead Elk Lake.
Meanwhile in New Milford Addison Kilmer continued her big December, pouring in 40 points as the Mountain View overwhelmed Blue Ridge for a 67-32 opening night win.
Kilmer had 13 of her points in the opening quarter and Aubrey Sanders drained a pair of threes
as the Lady Eagles opened with a 27-2 advantage.
Blue Ridge got its offense going in the second quarter scoring 15 points, but Kilmer had 13 more
and Mountain View led 43-17 at the break.
Kilmer added 11 rebounds and four blocks to her 40 points while Sanders finished with 11 points and Emma Thatcher and Regan Bishop-Russo each chipped in with seven points. Abi Gelinger led the Lady Raiders with 16 points and Lyndee Barbour added eight.
Montrose blew the game open after intermission outscoring Susquehanna 23-6 in the third
quarter to roll to a 56-26 win over the Lady Sabers.
Sadie Jones dropped 18 points to lead the Lady Meteors and Libby Bush added 14. Kiera Burke had nine points to lead the Lady Sabers and Lauren Huyck added seven.