By Derek Brown

Daily Elk Citian

The Trojan’s matchup against Blair at home looked like it could be an exciting finish after the first quarter. It was not.

Canute trailed 8-6 after the first frame. The Trojan defense followed the first quarter by another good defensive outing allowing 16 points in the first half. Canute's offense put in just eight points, while shooting 3 of 21 in the first two quarters.

The Trojans fell 45-22. Canute was outscored 29-14 in the second half.

"I thought tonight we played pretty well defensively. We had a few breakdowns," said Larry Parrish, Canute boys head coach. "When you give up 16 points in one half, that's pretty good defense. But our problem is we don't shoot the ball very well. Our biggest problem is sticking the ball in the hole."

JB Teeter, Keiyon Smith, and Anthony Farni all scored six points in the losing cause for Canute. Cheston Shaw led the game with 11 points for Blair.

Blair is now 17-4 on the year as Canute drops to 2-16.

"When you don't stick the ball in the hole you have to start taking chances," said Parrish. "The score looked lopsided. I think it was a little closer than that from what the score showed. Defensively we played pretty well. Offensively we just couldn't score."

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The Trojanettes jumped out to a 9-6 lead after the first eight minutes. But then the game took a swing into Blair's favor.

Canute was outscored 16-5 in the second quarter and could not rally from that deficit.

"I felt like our shots didn't fall," said Owen Dickson, Canute girls head coach. "I felt like when the second quarter came out they adjusted well to it."

Canute's Bobbie Patterson and Shaina Beals chipped in five points in the loss.

Blair's Whitney Green scored 13 points, and Chelsey Martin had 11 points against the Trojanette defense.

"A lot of that was putbacks. We didn't block out. They would get second and third shots where we were out of position," said Dickson. "We didn't do a very good job of blocking out."

Dickson felt that the Trojanettes were close to having this game end up differently.

"There was turnovers there in the second quarter that if we wouldn't have turned the ball over four or five times there it could've been a different ball game. I feel like if we could've hung on for about three minutes in the second quarter a little better than we did, it would've been a different ball game," said Dickson.