Lean on me. Grant Union's Becky Landis pulls the ball away from Elgin's Brittany Beedle (14) as teammate Tiffany Miller tries to help out. Landis scored a game-high 16 points in the Lady Pros 63-35 win. The Eagle/Tim Adams

JOHN DAY – The Lady Prospectors raced out to an 11-0 lead in the first quarter of Saturday’s game and never took a backward glance, defeating Elgin 63-35 to lift their record to 2-3 in Wapiti League games at the midway point of the season.

A stifling Grant Union defense prevented Elgin from getting a shot off on its first six possessions down the floor, and Becky Landis, Jessie Legg and Cassandra Coxen dominated the boards at both ends of the court right from the opening tip.

“Today we came back with a lot of aggression and a want to win,” said senior Bree Myers. “We came back and worked a lot harder than we did yesterday and avenged our loss.”

“We really worked as a team and it all came together tonight,” Sarah Cary said.

Elgin put 14 points on the board in the second quarter, but the Lady Pros answered with 17 to hold a 33-18 halftime lead.

Bronwyn Bartlett knocked down a pair of three-pointers in the third period and teammates Andrea Ashby-Andrew and Whitney Moore also hit from long range as part of a 19-point uprising, and Grant Union cruised into the fourth quarter with a commanding 52-26 lead.

“I played okay, but I thought I could have done better. It was good that we won,” Ashby-Andrew said.

“We all played as a team this time, rather than arguing and stuff,” Bartlett said. “Our coach usually leaves the starters in the whole entire game until they’re dead, but he kept rotating us a lot the whole game tonight and we had good base.”

Becky Landis scored a game-high 16 points to pace the Lady Pros. Bartlett and Cary scored nine points each and Ashby-Andrew along with Moore hit for seven.

Brittany Beedle led Elgin with nine points.

Union 54, Grant Union 53 (OT)

UNION – April Savely hit on the last of 54 free throw attempts with no time remaining on the clock in the first overtime period to give the Union girls a 54-53 victory over Grant Union on Friday.

The foul-filled game was decided at the free throw line, with the Lady Prospectors going 13-for-36, while the Bobcats were 26-for-54.

“We just made too many turnovers and let them get to the foul line too many times,” Grant Union coach Javier Garcia said.

Grant Union trailed 19-14 in the slow-moving first half, but rallied with 29 points in the final two quarters to tie the score 43-43 sending the game into overtime.

Landis scored 17 points for the Lady Pros and Bartlett had 16, on four three-pointers and a 4-for-6 effort from the charity stripe.

Savely scored a game-high 25 points to lead the Bobcats.