Thursday night the talented Lowell Lady Red Devils took the floor again after winning their home opener on Tuesday night against Wheeler with North Newton coming to town as the Devils defeated the Spartans 57-26 with a running clock to end the game. The entire team got to play on the court with Brooke Dawson scoring a game high 12 points followed by Alivia Madison and Josephine Laub with eight points each. Dawson did a nice job of letting the game come to her while getting everyone involved as Lowell moved to 2-0 on the year. The Devils committed 14 turnovers in the game while the Spartans turned the ball over 25 times against the Devils pressure. Lowell started the game out fast as Laub knocked down the first jumper of the game against the 2-3 zone of the Spartans. A turnover by the visitors led to a three pointer by Madison pushing the Devils lead to 5-0. After a Spartan miss, senior Tatum Claus gets fouled making both charity tosses pushing the lead to 7-0. LOwell causes another turnover while applying the trap up top with Laub getting fouled sending the senior guard to the line as she nets both free throws for a 9-0 score. North Newton could not score once again down the court but Dawson did, giving the talented senior her first two points of the game for a 11-0 advantage. Scoring the first point of the game for the Spartans, Renna Leininger gets fouled and splits a pair from the line putting the score at 11-1. Lowell went ahead 17-2 after two free throws by McKenzie Troncozo but with 1:51 remaining in the opening quarter, Leininger got fouled sending her to the line again as she split a pair putting the score at 17-3. North Newton uses a timeout with 1:47 on the clock but right away they commit a foul putting Dawson on the line who sinks both making the score now 19-3. The Spartans finally make their first basket of the game and then off a Lowell turnover, Tatum Cahill scores a layup as the Devils lead 21-7 after one quarter of play. North Newton turned the ball over six times while Lowell had five turnovers in the first eight minutes of play. The second quarter started out with turnovers by both teams which helped North Newton as they closed the gap to just ten at 24-14 after a nice jumper by Addison Culbreath. Entering the game and making an impact right away was freshman Abigail Hernandez who nets a three from the wing giving Lowell a 13 point advantage at 2714. Laub who hustled the entire game playing hard like she usually does puts the score at 29 14 after rebounding her own missed free throw after splitting a pair sending her right back to the line with 1:09 left until halftime. Making one out of two and putting the score at 31-14,the Spartans went to the line after a Red Devil foul with Leininger splitting a pair of tosses making it a 31-15 game at the half. LOwell forced seven North Newton turnovers in the quarter with the Devils adding four to their total. Leading the Devils in scoring at the half was Josephine Laub with 8 points while North Newton was led by Leininger with six. Lowell blew the game open in the third quarter as their defensive pressure and traps caused all kinds of problems for the Spartan guards up top not allowing them a single basket in the quarter. The Devils took advantage on offense against the 2-3 zone of the Spartans by using the short corner and making the pass to the cutter or outside for the shot as they power their way ahead 50-16 after three quarters of play. Lowell caused eight turnovers in the quarter while having three as the game sped up a little too fast for North Newton with Lowell trapping up top out of a 1-3-1. Starting out the fourth quarter, Dawson hits a jumper in the paint pulling up nicely for the clear shot making the score 52-16. A running clock now is in play and the Devils go on to win the game moving their record to 2-0 on the season with the final 57-26. Score North Newton 7 8 1 10 26 Lowell 21 10 19 7 57 Article written by: Scotty Forrester, Freelance Sports Writer