<p>PLAINVILLE – TMP-Marian closed the first half on a 7-0 run and Emilee
Lane scored a career-high 26 points as the Lady Monarchs took down Trego Thursday
night in Plainville 47-40 to advance to the MCL tournament fifth place game Saturday.</p><p><b>Coach Rose McFarland</b></p><div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/970332148&color=%23013c7b&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509" title="Eagle Radio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Eagle Radio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509/01-21-21-tmp-girls-interview" title="01 - 21 - 21 TMP coach Rose McFarland" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">01 - 21 - 21 TMP coach Rose McFarland</a></div></div><p>Both teams got off to a slow start, combining for just 11
first-quarter points. Trego led 7-4.</p><p>TMP’s Emilee Lane scored the first eight points of the game for
the Monarchs helping them stay within striking district at 9-8 early in the second
quarter. </p><p>After Trego had built a 16-11 second quarter lead the
Monarchs answered with a 7-0 run to take a 18-16. Sophia Balthazor hit her
second of three three-pointers in the game as part of that run.</p><p>The Monarchs took that two-point lead into the halftime
break and never trailed in the game again.</p><p>Lane scored six straight to open the second half for TMP and
eight of their first 10 in the half to put TMP up six at 28-22.</p><p>Trego was able to hang around thanks to the 13 points in the
third quarter by Trego’s Lili Shubert but it wasn’t enough as TMP built a 32-29
lead through three quarters.</p><p>In the fourth quarter Trego closed within four at 36-32 but
the Monarchs outscored Trego 11-8 the rest of the way as they secure the 47-40.</p><p><b>Game highlights</b></p><div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/970332181&color=%23013c7b&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509" title="Eagle Radio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Eagle Radio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-814667509/01-21-21-tmp-girls-highlights" title="01 - 21 - 21 TMP Girls Highlights vs Trego" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">01 - 21 - 21 TMP Girls Highlights vs Trego</a></div></div><p>Emilee Lane scored a career-high 26 points and pulled down seven
rebounds to lead TMP.</p><p>Lili Shubert finished with a game-high 27 for Trego.</p><p>TMP improved to 8-2 with the win while Trego dropped to 8-3.</p><p>The Monarchs will play Ellis in the fifth-place game at 12
p.m. Saturday in WaKeeney. Trego will take on Oakley in the seventh-place game
at 10 a.m. Saturday.</p>

TMP girls knock off Trego at MCL tournament