Hillsboro Lady Indians defeat rival McClain

GREENFIELD — It was a great start to the week for the Hillsboro Lady Indians, as they not only defeated the Fayetteville Lady Rockets on Monday, but came back on Tuesday and defeated the McClain Lady Tigers by a 9-1 score.

The South Central Ohio League matchup between the two rival schools was all HHS early on with four goals within the first eight minutes of the match.

"After having a rough week last week, we needed to get off to a quick start this week, and we have," HHS head coach Jeremy Ratcliff said. "We had a quick start in this game as well. Our offense did a good job, and this was a good win."

HHS (3-2, 5-3) began the scoring with Trista Rhodes making it a 1-0 lead for HHS with a goal less than four minutes into the game (36:35).

From there, it was Kaylee Achor who scored less than a minute later at 35:41, and with 34:02 on the first-half clock it was Rhodes scoring the second of what would be three goals in the match.

With HHS holding a three-goal lead, Ashley Purtee put HHS ahead 4-0 at 32:52.

The lone goal for MHS came at the 16:21 mark from Taylor Polley, her 13th goal of the season.

Hillsboro responded with a goal from Allie Branscome at 12:29 in the first half. The final goal of the first half came with eight seconds left by Natalie Sullivan for a 6-1 lead.

In the second half, the Lady Indians added three more goals, with Rhodes earning the hat-trick off a corner kick from Kaylynn Bell with 38:42 left in the match. Bell finished the match with three assists.

From there, the final two goals for HHS came with 5:32 by Riley Moberly and Jalyn Yochum (2:49). Also with an assist in the match for the Lady Indians was Lindsay Ulicny.

At goal, Carly Meyer had six saves for HHS.

In their past two games, HHS has allowed two goals.