Southern Tier Sports ReportHORSEHEADS — The Horseheads girls’ basketball team got 24 points from Sophia Bonnell as they topped Elmira 65-57 on Wednesday night.
Bonnell hit three threes and was 9-for-12 from the line. She had 11 points in the third quarter.
Megan Wolf had 16 points, with a pair of threes and she was 6-for-8 from the line. She was 5-for-6 from the line in the fourth quarter to help seal the win.
Jordyn Gross had 15 points. She had four points in the final quarter.
Jessica Als had eight points off the bench and Maddie Ribble and Emma Kamas each had a point.
Freshman Mariah Matias had a career-high 27 points for Elmira, with 19 rebounds, and Ellie Clearwater had 16 points, 11 with three threes in the fourth quarter. Matias had 13 points in the fourth quarter.
Elmira had 29 fourth-quarter points to trim the Horseheads lead.
Ashaya Wallace had five points and Kaitlyn Wagner had four. Makayla Robideaux had three points and Alyivia Woodruff had two points.
“There’s no moral victories,” Elmira coach A’Don Allen said. “A loss is a loss, but I can’t express how proud I am of the girls with the fight. It was a 22-point lead (by Horseheads) and we could have folded, but to cut the lead to five, and have a chance in the end is all we could ask for. We have a lot to build on and take away for the rest of the season.”
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